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.”
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.
The House has passed a bipartisan measure to possibly ban TikTok in the US amid national security concerns, prompting advertisers to consider alternative marketing channels.
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...
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Another week, another concerted effort to ban TikTok in the US – except this time, it could actually happen. In this episode, Cherlynn and Devindra chat with Engadget Senior Editor Karissa Bell around the latest TikTok drama. The House passed a bill that could ultimately ban the company if ByteDance doesn’t sell it off within six months. It may face a tougher fight in the Senate, but if it’s approved there President Biden has said he’s willing to sign it into law. Is this a justified fight...
TikTok is used by around 150 million Americans, including journalists. Photo courtesy of Nordskov Media. Like a bad penny, bills to ban TikTok keep turning up in Congress. We’ve written before about how such proposals are unconstitutional and would enable mass censorship. The newest legislation that would effectively ban the platform, passed earlier this month by the House of Representatives, is no exception.Writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, Freedom of the Press...
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said he received a voicemail in which someone threatened to “find” and “shoot” him over a potential TikTok ban Wednesday. “This is a voicemail my office received last night,” Tillis said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “TikTok's misinformation campaign is pushing people to call their
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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 […]
The battle between the United States and Huawei continues as the Biden Administration is considering blacklisting four more chipmakers from China linked to the tech giant. According to sources quoted by Bloomberg, the companies are Qingdao Sien, SwaySure, Shenzhen Pensun Technology, as well as China's leading memory chip maker, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT). Huawei HQ All these companies might be added to the US Entity List, which means American companies wanting to do business with...
TikTok’s troubles apparently go beyond a possible ban in the U.S. The social media platform has seen user growth slow for the first time in its history, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Sunday (March 17), citing sources familiar with the matter. That report lists a litany of headaches for the company, already dealing with […]