A U.S. TikTok ban would be bad news for Indigenous people, says northern Ontario content creator – CBC

Jan 21, 2025

The popular social media app was briefly banned in the United States on Sunday

The popular social media app, TikTok, was briefly banned in the United States on Sunday, and an Indigenous content creator from northern Ontario says that was a problem.

Vanessa Brousseau, who currently lives in North Bay, uses TikTok to share her culture and inform people about missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people.

Brousseau’s sister, Pamela Holopainen, was 22 years old when she went missing in 2003 from Timmins, Ont.

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