New York City on Wednesday joined a wave of states and federal companies in banning TikTok from government-owned gadgets primarily based on safety considerations, snuffing out some common city-run TikTok accounts within the course of.

Jonah Allon, a spokesman for Mayor Eric Adams, stated in a press release that the town’s Cyber Command decided that the app “posed a security threat to the city’s technical networks.” City companies should take away the app inside 30 days and workers will lose entry to TikTok and its web site from city-owned gadgets and networks.

The TikTok accounts of Mr. Adams, the town’s Department of Sanitation and the Department of Parks and Recreation all up to date their bios with this message: “This account was operated by NYC until August 2023. It’s no longer monitored.”

Numerous government officials have been restricting access to TikTok in response to considerations that the app, which is owned by the Chinese firm ByteDance, might give Beijing entry to delicate person information. New York State has banned TikTok on state-issued cell gadgets for greater than three years, with some exceptions.

The bans have largely been restricted to official gadgets, although Montana not too long ago handed a invoice barring TikTok throughout the state. That rule, which is about to take impact on Jan. 1, is being challenged by TikTok on a number of grounds, together with accusations that it violates the First Amendment.

TikTok declined to touch upon the ban, which was earlier reported by The Verge.

The metropolis’s Department of Sanitation has turn out to be an sudden TikTok darling, amassing almost 50,000 followers with movies highlighting its employees and memes tied to new trash-collection instances. New York journal’s Curbed website praised the account final 12 months, saying that the division “comes across in its TikToks as a bunch of genuine, hardworking salt-of-the-earth folks.” The account got another boost final 12 months when a declaration from Jessica Tisch, the town’s sanitation commissioner, went viral on TikTok: “The rats are absolutely going to hate this announcement. But the rats don’t run this city, we do.”

While some TikTok viewers might grieve the lack of such accounts, they’ll nonetheless watch Empire State-related fare on @NYGov, the official TikTok account for New York State, which not too long ago riffed off the current “girl dinner” pattern with a video extolling a “New York State girl dinner” of pizza, Hudson Valley cheese, Tate’s cookies and bagels.

Michael Gold contributed reporting.