Influencers are being offered cash to push the Instagram-clone run by the Chinese giant ByteDance. The move could be a bid to dodge a TikTok ban.
Republican Sen. Mike Rounds tells CNN’s Dana Bash that TikTok has “national defense complications for us” and that it would be better to have “American ownership on that particular platform.”
The US ambassador to China said Friday that Beijing’s position on a potential TikTok ban in the United States was “supremely ironic” given the ruling Communist Party’s censorship of online platforms within its borders. The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill on Wednesday that would force the wildly popular short-video app to break […]
NEW DELHI, (IANS) – As the US House of Representatives passed legislation that could lead to a ban on TikTok that is being used by over 170 million Americans, it was the Indian government which first took the decision to block the Chinese short-video making […]
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said in a Wednesday interview that users would benefit from the controversial bill to force TikTok’s Chinese-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the popular app or face a ban in the United States. Following a classified intelligence briefing for senators on TikTok, Cruz made the case that blocking the Chinese Communist
There are growing calls for Australia to address the “very serious threat” that Chinese social media giant TikTok poses to Australians.Chinese company ByteDance's short-video app is one of the fastest-growing platforms in the world, with more than 170 million users in the US and 8.5 million in Australia.The US House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday giving ByteDance six months to divest itself of the app and sell it to a company based outside China.Australian opposition home affairs...
Rep. Turner (R-Ohio) claims the TikTok bill isn't an outright ban of TikTok. The legislation requires TikTok's Chinese parent company to divest or else be prevented from download and use in the U.S. Advocates claim hundreds of thousands of Americans rely on income either entirely or partly from TikTok and will 'lose their livelihood' if its banned
TikTok displayed a notification to some U.S. users on Friday, urging them to call their senators and ask them to vote no to a bill that would ban the popular short-form video app if it is not divested from Chinese tech company ByteDance. Tell your Senator how important TikTok is to you. Ask them to vote no on the TikTok ban, the notice said, which allowed users to enter their zip code to locate their senator's phone number. Now, if the Senate votes, the future of creativity and communities...
Florida will have one of the country's most restrictive social media bans for minors — if it withstands expected legal challenges — under a bill signed by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday.
I don’t expect everyone to share my enthusiasm for YouTube’s top skinfluencers, but when it comes to the two dermatologists behind Doctorly, there are 2.8 million of you who also subscribe to Luke Maxfield and Muneeb Shah’s content on YouTube (nevermind the million on Instagram and whopping 18 million on TikTok). There’s always something useful to learn from the Doctorly POV, be it dispelling flash-in-the-pan beauty and grooming trends, elaborating on buzzed-about ingredients, or just...
“The week of April 14–20 is expected to have the ideal balance of housing market conditions that favor home sellers, more so than any other week in the year,” Realtor.com’s economic research analyst said in a report.
The Albanian government’s proposed “Trump-style travel ban” has sparked international uproar. The Russian embassy criticized the move and Iraqi officials were surprised by the possible changes.The federal government tried to push legislation through parliament this week that would ban visitors from some other countries, including tourists, from entering Australia.Countries expected to be blacklisted include Iran, Iraq, Russia, South Sudan and Zimbabwe. These countries are not accepting...