The comments from ByteDance come after reports it was exploring the potential sale of the platform.
President Biden has now formally signed the bill that means TikTok owner ByteDance must sell the platform, or face being banned in the US from 2025. TikTok could be banned in the US from 2025 As expected following the Senate's passing of the combination bill regarding funding for Ukraine and the potential ban of TikTok, President Biden has now signed the measure into law. From today, ByteDance has nine months in which to sell or divest itself of TikTok, although there may be a further...
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved legislation requiring the wildly popular social media app TikTok to be divested from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or be shut out of the American market. The measure was part of a $95 billion foreign aid package, including military assistance to Ukraine, Israel and
By Hadas Gold, CNN (CNN) — TikTok’s expected legal challenge to a law signed Wednesday by President Joe Biden forcing the popular app’s parent company to spin off its US operations could be a seminal moment in First Amendment law in what is shaping up to be a year of defining cases. The new law gives TikTok’s parent company
The legislation, which gives ByteDance nine months to sell TikTok and a possible three-month extension if a sale is in progress—now goes to President Biden for signature.
TikTok creators weren’t surprised to hear that President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that could lead to a TikTok ban, but they’re close to unanimous in their belief that the federal government is wrong to push the legislation forward. For almost four years, since July 2020, a potential TikTok ban has been under consideration by members of the federal government. A bipartisan bill to ban TikTok in the U.S. was first proposed in December 2022, and the version that was just signed into law has...
Venezuela's socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro attempted to issue a message in English to U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday to discuss the upcoming expiration of Biden's generous oil and gas sanctions relief package to his regime.
Chinese firms are racing to set up factories in Mexico to bypass US tariffs and sanctions.
UK businesses using TikTok say they could see a significant drop in sales if the app is banned in the US.
A Politico report released Wednesday revealed officials from the Chinese Embassy have met with congressional staffers to lobby against the recent bill that would force the Beijing-based ByteDance to sell TikTok to a non-Chinese company.
After a bill that would force the sale of the company passed the House, diplomats from the Chinese Embassy met with Hill offices to push talking points defending the app.
Headaches continue in Hawaii Kai as four public schools were forced to close Monday due to an ongoing blackout. The Hawaiian Electric outage happened after 2:00 pm Sunday and impacted about 13,000 customers. Power was restored to some, but approximately 1,300 remained without power Monday morning.