Like TikTok, lawmakers want to ban DeepSeek from government devices

House lawmakers cited the Chinese government’s ability to use DeepSeek for surveillance and misinformation as reasons to keep it away from federal networks.

A bipartisan duo in the the U.S. House is proposing legislation to ban the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek from federal devices, similar to the policy already in place for the popular social media platform TikTok.