These Are The Most Banned Apps In The World: Report

The number one banned app is not TikTok.

An interesting study looked at the most banned apps worldwide.

Facebook is the most banned app across the globe. According to the study, which was conducted by Linkee.ai, the social media app is banned in China, Russia, Iran and North Korea among other countries but also managed to bring in $130B in revenue in 2023.

WhatsApp, which has 98 million users in the U.S. alone, is the second most banned app. According to the report, the messenger app is "banned in China and North Korea, but it is also not allowed in Syria, Qatar and UAE. "

The third most banned app in the world is YouTube. "Youtube is banned only in North Korea, but it also faces partial bans and content restrictions in China, Thailand, Malaysia and even Germany," the report revealed.

Meanwhile, the U.S. may soon ban TikTok, which has 170 million users in the United States alone and a total of one billion monthly users in the world. President Joe Biden signed a law in April that would ban the app in the U.S., unless its parent company, ByteDance, sells its stake in the app, citing concerns over security amid a tense relationship between the U.S. and China – the home of ByteDance.

As businesses have increased their remote workforces after the COVID pandemic, it is useful to know what apps are banned in what countries. Here is the full list of banned apps across the globe, according to the report: