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The Uyghurs are learning more about missing family members from the leaked Chinese police data
Michael Beckerman, Head of Public Policy for TikTok’s Americas, in response to a journalist’s question, said, “Do you acknowledge that the Chinese government has Uyghurs and others in concentration camps?” “That’s not what I focus on,” he added. He further said, “The same people…are complaining about employees in China and acts from China, and…suggest that…
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The US lawmakers introduced a ban on Tiktok.
Chinese video-sharing app TikTok’s US chief executive Shou Zi Chew is scheduled to appear before Congress on March 8 to face questions over user safety and security, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal. Chew is expected to be called to testify over TikTok’s plans to move data from Virginia and Singapore to a…
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It’s your phone that TikTok’s greatest asset is.
Ahead of TikTok’s debut in India, Fox Searchlight shared a video wherein the platform’s creator Emily Feret talked about her ” hodgepodge diet”, her daily getting-ready routine and showing off her home’s nonaesthetic playroom. “I do feel…we’re seeing…for lack of a better term, a vibe shift among moms online and moving away from the unattainable…
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TikTok has denied a report of a plan to track US citizens using its app.
After the US proposed legislation that would ban TikTok and ByteDance based in China, a TikTok spokeswoman said, “The Chinese Communist Party has neither direct nor indirect control of Byte Dance or TikTok.” She added, “Under the proposal, we have devised with our country’s top National Security agencies through CFIUS…that kind of data sharing—or any…
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Congress will prohibit TikTok from the US government phone system.
TikTok on Thursday refuted a Forbes report that alleged the ByteDance-parent company wanted to use the video app to “monitor the personal location” of American citizens. TikTok said ByteDance’s Internal Audit team didn’t collect preciseGPS location information from US users. TikTok also claimed Forbes left off a vital part of its statement, which said ByteDance…
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The TikTok has been banned by the US House of Representatives.
TikTok said it has banned the House of Representatives from using its app on its devices after a lawmaker said she would ban it, The New York Times reported. US Representative Catherine Szpindor said she would restrict the use of the app on House-issued devices. Democrats have said that Section 230 should be changed because…
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The US House of Representatives has banned devices that are related to TikTok.
US Senator Marco Rubio has proposed a bill to ban Chinese video-sharing platform TikTok. The bill would block transactions made by social media companies with over one million monthly users based in countries that are considered foreign adversaries such as Cuba, Russia, and North Korea. More than a dozen states have passed TikTok bans on…
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Republicans are playing to the Fox News crowd with attacks on TikTok.
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance cannot be trusted with user data in US because of the potential national security risk, Senator Marco Rubio said. The proposed legislation would “block and prohibit all transactions” in US by social media companies with at least one million monthly users based in countries like China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba…
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TikTok became a Diplomatic Crisis.
US President Donald Trump said the US government should conclude its national security review of TikTok to address security concerns. “It was troubling that instead of encouraging the administration to conclude its national security review of TikTok, some members of Congress wanted to push for a politically motivated ban that will do nothing to advance…
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A ban bill has been introduced by US lawmakers.
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has been accused of censoring content and banning accounts that posted about China’s mass internment camps. TikTok has previously said it doesn’t share information with the Chinese government and that a US-based security team decides who can access US user data from China. TikTok has been accused of banning some accounts…
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The Congress is planning on banning TikTok from government phones.
US President Joe Biden’s administration has proposed a ban on Chinese social media sites, including TikTok and Instagram, from government-issued devices. The ban would apply only to federal employees, who are already barred from having TikTok on government-issued phones. It comes as the US and TikTok are reportedly in talks over national security concerns.
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China is a hot new place for US election misinformation.
TikTok-parent ByteDance was planning to track two Americans who “had never had an employment relationship with the company”, Forbes reported. ByteDance’s Internal Audit team planned to surveilling at least two Americans who “had never had an employment relationship with the company”, the report added. This comes weeks after ByteDance said that it had stopped providing…
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There are parental controls on social media.
TikTok may surface potentially harmful content related to suicides and eating disorders to teenagers within minutes of them creating an account, according to a study by Center for Countering Digital Hate. It can take less than three minutes for someone to sign up for a TikTok account, the report added. The study also claimed that…
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Republicans are attacking TikTok in a way that plays to the Fox News crowd.
Chinese video-sharing platform TikTok’s parent company BYTEDance has said that it does not provide any information on its users to the government or other entities. “We don’t provide any information on our users to any third party,” a BYTEDance spokesperson said. TikTok was acquired by BYTEDance in 2018 for $6.2 billion in the largest-ever deal…
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TikTok denies a plan to track specific US citizens using its app.
TikTok-parent ByteDance plans to monitor at least two Americans who “had never had an employment relationship” with the company, Forbes reported. The internal audit team of ByteDance allegedly planned on surveilling at least two Americans who had “never had an employment relationship with the company”. Forbes claimed that ByteDance did not reveal who was going…
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The deal between Musk and the social media company was finalized.
Billionaire Elon Musk said he’s planning to transform Twitter into a platform similar to WeChat or TikTok, adding it could have “billions” of users in a few years. He said Twitter could have “free speech absolutist” former US President Donald Trump back on the platform if he’s reinstated. In April, Musk had agreed to buy…