Texas Governor Greg Abbott has announced a ban preventing government employees from using DeepSeek, Xiaohongshu (RedNote), and Lemon8 on state-issued devices.
Data privacy and national security concerns have prompted several US states to ban Chinese-owned apps and AI tools on government devices already, and these moves are usually precursors more to drastic measures implemented at a federal level.
TikTok took the same path, as the US federal government was first to implement a ban on state-is
