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Latest news and updates on TikTok, the globally popular social media platform. The app, which merged with Musical.ly in 2018, lets users create short videos under a minute long complete with visual effects and background music. It has since come under scrutiny in countries like the US and India because it is owned by a Chinese company. Critics have accused the app of posing a national security risk, a claim that TikTok has repeatedly denied. Known as Douyin in China, the app is owned by Beijing-based startup ByteDance, also behind the Chinese news aggregator Jinri Toutiao.
China officially connected to the internet in April 1994. Today, its online influence is stronger than ever.
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US presidential candidates lack consistent attitude towards TikTok as legislation that would ban the app passes the House of Representatives. Amid widening technology gap, US must reflect on why an algorithm developed in China gained prominence within the American market.
The US and China should consider how the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese companies and investors can be properly protected in the United States without raising unfair security concerns.
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Amazon has invited select mainland Chinese merchants to join its new discount-shopping marketplace.
A law in the US that would ban hosting TikTok if ByteDance does not sell would ‘adversely impact’ Oracle if it cannot redeploy capacity, the company said.
In short parody video, Tang gives mascot bear ‘extraordinary task’ of setting up Security Bureau’s account on social media platform.
Commercial astronaut Gerardi is the 90th woman in history to fly to space, but what else do we know about the 35-year-old? From being a mum and author to a TikTok star …
TikTok and parent ByteDance have also dismissed allegations about China’s influence in the short video app’s operations in the United States.
Magnus Ferrell attends University of Southern California, his dad’s alma mater, and is frequently subjected to pranks by the Barbie actor
The Department of Justice plans to proceed with allegations that the ByteDance-owned app violated the law by collecting data on children under 13 years old.
TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company ByteDance is also a plaintiff in lawsuit submitted in federal court, expected to be one of biggest legal battles in tech history.
A recent firing of Wells Fargo staff for using gadgets to fake working from home shows how employers are monitoring productivity and catching keyboard fraudsters.
He set up a campaign to buy TikTok after US President Joe Biden signed a bill forcing ByteDance to sell the app to a non-Chinese company – he also said he ‘felt sad’ for pro-Palestine protesters
Online publishers must push awareness of online abuse, censor comments in advance and cut off live broadcasts containing violent information.
TikTok owner ByteDance says a ban would infringe of free speech rights of 170 million users, but courts may defer to lawmakers on national security questions.
The hearing will put the fate of TikTok in the middle of the final weeks of the 2024 presidential election.
Consumers are suspicious about the use of AI to create news content, particularly for sensitive subjects such as politics.
She left China seven decades ago and now works at a shop in Upper Bukit Timah every day because she finds staying at home too ‘boring’.
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Meet Owen Han, whose viral sandwiches have earned him millions of loyal followers on social media – and whose recipes are informed by his upbringing as the son of an Italian mother and a Chinese father.
China’s executives are embracing dual roles as business leaders and online influencers. Will this approach boost sales, or create a dependency on personal character?
The overhaul of ByteDance’s e-commerce operation in Southeast Asia’s largest economy comes after its US$1.5 billion deal that merged TikTok Shop with GoTo Group’s Tokopedia.
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WeChat’s updated content-moderation policy forms part of a broader industry effort to promote greater transparency of artificial intelligence-generated content.
Employees of the video gaming and social media conglomerate have moved into CapitaSky, a 29-story office tower in Singapore’s central business district.
Reality TV star Paris Hilton was among those targeted in the cyberattack, but her account was not compromised, an insider says.
John Rogovin, who spent more than 12 years as Warner Bros’ top lawyer and also served in the US government, will report to ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo.
TikTok star Devin Halbal, also known as Kudasai Girl, who identifies as a trans woman, talks about how she connects with her followers, and how creativity inspires her and has increased her self-esteem.
While president in 2020 Trump tried to ban the app, saying it was a national security threat, but this year he also said that a ban would hurt some young people and strengthen Facebook.
