Over 2,000 Internal Revenue Service (IRS) devices had access to TikTok despite a government ban, the Treasury Inspector General For Tax Administration (TIGTA) disclosed in a report published on Monday.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) banned TikTok for federal government devices in February, according to White House documents. The IRS’s Criminal Investigation (CI) unit failed to enforce the ban as of August 2023 and had not asked for an exemption to it, according to the TIGTA report. (RELATED: Members Of Congress Propose Banning TikTok Nationwide)
NEW: @USTreasury Inspector General finds the IRS is not complying with the federal law banning TikTok on government devices.
2,800 mobile devices used by the IRS’s Criminal Investigation division still have access to TikTok, in addition to personal devices used for IRS work. pic.twitter.com/ISfQtZFe3Y
— Brendan Carr…
