Freedom is in the air. America just celebrated the Fourth of July – our Independence Day – as the nation approaches its 250th ...

First, TikTok scoops up data on its 170 million monthly users in the U.S., which could potentially be used to track federal employees or to conduct blackmail or corporate espionage.

Some employees have argued political posts are good for business, and urged the company to loosen its political ads ban. Others worry politics could poison TikTok’s magic. Over a weekend this ...

The CEO of TikTok is asking Industry Minister Mélanie Joly for an urgent meeting about the federal government's order ...

The app is expected to operate on a separate algorithm and data system and users outside the US would not find this version ...

In light of the Senate passing a forced sale of Chinese-owned TikTok, one senior Republican and FCC commissioner explains how the legislation is "so smart" and "very targeted." ...

TikTok itself also shared a 2024 economic impact report that showed small businesses advertising on TikTok saw an 88% increase in sales, taking in a total of $15 billion.

The popular app is facing a looming ban in the U.S. over its ties to China, but Trump claims a mystery buyer is waiting.

A law requiring TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the app by Jan. 19 or face a total US ban was upheld in US appeals court on Friday – setting up a Supreme Court showdown in the coming ...

Meanwhile, in January, Trump signed an executive order granting TikTok a 75-day extension to complete a sale or face a ban in the US. This deadline has created urgency in the negotiations between ...

Our study is based on a massive dataset of over 16 million TikTok videos from more than 160,000 public accounts between 2019 and 2023. We saw a spike of political TikTok videos during the 2020 U.S ...

Social media platform TikTok stands on the brink of a forced sale after the House passed a measure on Wednesday that would ban the app unless it parts ways with its Chinese-owned parent company ...