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The Figaro letter of March 9, 2023

2023-03-09T07:22:37.863Z


Concerns around the Chinese social network TikTok, the rescue of the highest chapel in France and a report from the Ukrainian "children's company" which spies on the Russian army.


Dear readers,

The dazzling success of the Chinese TikTok - this social network which dethroned all the others in no time - is far from leaving Europe and the United States unmoved.

At home as across the Atlantic, we wonder if the video application would not be by chance in the boot of Beijing, and if he would not even play the role of spy.

So while waiting to get to the bottom of it, the European institutions have banned TikTok on the service phones distributed to their employees, and the Americans could simply ban the application from their country.

For this penultimate letter of the week, we are climbing Mont Thabor, where we are about to move Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs, a small chapel threatened with collapse, by a few meters.

We wish a happy birthday to all the Françoise who read us, and a good day to all our dear subscribers, whatever their first names!

Louise Darbon

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Should we be afraid of the Chinese social network TikTok?

The crux of the debates is the link of subordination that the video application would or would not maintain with Beijing.

NATEE MEEPIAN/Natee Meepian - stock.adobe.com

TikTok has…

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Source: lefigaro

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