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Chinese app RedNote — known in China as “Xiaohongshu” and often described as the Chinese version of Instagram — is blocking posts about the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre and Uyghurs as U.S. TikTok users migrate to the platform ahead of a likely ban in the United States this Sunday. Startled westerners are also learning that China’s platforms don’t take kindly to woke LGBT content.

American TikTok users are saying “goodbye” to their “personal Chinese spy” in viral videos trending on the Chinese social media platform mocking the app’s potential ban in the United States this Sunday.

China’s TikTok is reportedly preparing to shut down its app down for American users on Sunday, when the U.S. sell-or-ban law is set to go into effect.

China’s TikTok says that a recent report of ByteDance considering a sale to Elon Musk is “pure fiction.” TikTok is scheduled to be banned from then United States on Sunday.

President-elect Donald Trump expressed that he has a “warm spot” in his “heart for TikTok” as the app’s Chinese parent company is facing a looming January deadline to either sell the app or face a potential ban in the United States.

A federal appeals court upheld a law on Friday requiring TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell the app popular among U.S. kids and teens or face a ban in the United States.

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen (R) has filed a lawsuit against China’s TikTok, accusing the social media giant of knowingly sharing addictive and harmful content with children and teens.

13 states and the District of Columbia have filed lawsuits against China’s TikTok, claiming the popular short-form video app is designed to be addictive and is harming the mental health of children and teens.

Republicans have long ceded the TikTok battleground to the left, but one conservative has gone over the wire – and he’s quickly gaining grou

An appeals court has revived a lawsuit against China’s TikTok, reversing a lower court’s ruling that Section 230 immunity shielded the app from liability after a child died participating in the dangerous viral “blackout challenge.”

China’s TikTok has launched a new promotional tool for Hollywood to drive engagement.

The FTC informed the DOJ on Tuesday that China’s TikTok may be in violation of U.S. law on child privacy. 

The state of Utah is suing China’s TikTok, alleging the popular app’s “Live” feature is “a virtual strip club” for minors that lets adults pay children “to strip, pose, and dance provocatively” in exchange for money.

Despite the U.S. government’s efforts to prevent advanced AI chips from falling into the hands of Chinese companies, some American corporations are finding ways to circumvent these restrictions. Oracle in particular has reportedly helped China’s TikTok by “renting” AI chips to the communist social media company.

The rise of AI-powered homework apps is revolutionizing the way students approach their studies, posing a significant challenge to established tutoring franchises like Kumon. AI tutors can complete students’ homework for them ensuring they learn nothing — and the bigger problem is that China dominates the market.

Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers talk about scroll addiction on the most recent episode of The Drill Down.

Billionaire businessman and real estate mogul Frank McCourt announced Tuesday that his Project Liberty organization is building a consortium to buy TikTok’s U.S. business.

China’s TikTok and its parent company ByteDance filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in response to the U.S. sell-or-ban legislation recently signed by President Joe Biden, which gives the Chinese company nine months to sell the app or face a ban in the United States.

A majority of Americans see China’s popular TikTok app as a Chinese tool meant to influence and shape U.S. public opinion, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.

TikTok’s claim that it was walling off U.S. user data from its parent company, Chinese tech giant ByteDance, only applied to the “front door” while the app left the back door wide open, according to former employees.

Chinese tech giant ByteDance reportedly wants TikTok to shutdown in the United States if its legal fight against the recently passed ban-or-sell legislation fails.

While President Joe Biden signed legislation on Wednesday that would force Chinese tech giant ByteDance to sell TikTok in nine months or else be banned in the United States, the question of who could actually swoop in and buy the social media platform remains.

China’s TikTok says it plans to file a lawsuit against the U.S. ban-or-sell legislation that President Joe Biden signed into law on Wednesday. The Chinese company, controlled by a hostile foreign country, ironically told Americans that it will “fight” for their “rights,” adding, “the Constitution is on our side.”

An Arkansas mother is suing China’s popular TikTok app following the death of her son, saying he “would be alive today had he not seen those videos” on the Chinese social media platform.

China’s TikTok is reportedly exploring its options to see if it can escape the sell-or-ban legislation that the U.S. Senate passed on Tuesday night, sending the bill to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature. 

President Joe Biden signed into law Wednesday a $95 billion war aid measure that includes aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan that also includes a provision that would force social media site TikTok to be sold or be banned in U.S.

China’s TikTok is reportedly set to remove its General Counsel, the executive responsible for convincing U.S. lawmakers that the social media platform controlled by a hostile foreign country has been doing enough to fend off national security concerns.

The legislation that would ban China’s TikTok app in the United States unless its parent company, Chinese tech giant ByteDance, sells it could become law within days.

China’s TikTok has started testing its new Instagram competitor, TikTok Notes, in Canada and Australia. The China-owned platform is sending a shot across Mark Zuckerberg’s bow even as it faces a potential ban in the United States.

Former TikTok employees say the Chinese app’s effort to isolate U.S. user data from China — a hostile foreign country run by a communist regime — is ineffective, calling the initiative “largely cosmetic.”

The Chinese Communist Party is secretly lobbying the U.S. Congress regarding TikTok, according to Capitol Hill staffers familiar with the situation.

Former TikTok employees reportedly say the app has worked closely with its parent company, Chinese technology giant ByteDance, despite claiming otherwise.

ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of massively popular psyop against western teenagers TikTok, has achieved a massive 60 percent increase in profits for 2023, outpacing Chinese competitors like gaming giant Tencent.

A new trend on China’s TikTok called “Things I’m ashamed to admit” involves the platform’s young users engaging in an egregious amount of oversharing on social media under the guise of dispelling the notion that people are living perfect lives.

China’s TikTok, the social media platform wildly popular with American teens, is gearing up to release a new photo-sharing app that could potentially rival Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram, according to recent notifications sent to users.

China’s TikTok social media platform has purchased $2.1 million in television ads as the U.S. Senate is reviewing legislation that could ban the app if its parent company ByteDance doesn’t sell it within six months.