Top French court upholds TikTok ban in riot-hit New Caledonia

The Conseil d’Etat, France’s highest administrative court, on Thursday declined to suspend a temporary ban of short video app TikTok in New Caledonia, imposed to tackle street violence.

Authorities also decided to ban video app TikTok, which the government during a bout of riots on France’s mainland last summer said helped rioters organise and amplified the chaos, attracting troublemakers to the streets.