Sighting data privacy and national security concerns, the Governor decreed that state workers are prohibited from interacting with Chinese AI and social media apps including DeepSeek, RedNote , and Lemon8 on state owned devices. Additionally, the ban includes Chinese stock trading platforms such as Moomoo, Tiger Brokers, and Webull. “Texas will not allow the Chinese Communist Party to infiltrate our state’s critical infrastructure through data harvesting AI and social media apps....
