Alabama’s likely next U.S. Senator, GOP nominee Katie Britt spoke out against Chinese-owned TikTok on Monday, warning it was a “Trojan horse that steals data to give to the Chinese Communist Party.”
Former TikTok employees are claiming that at least five senior leaders at the social media firm have left in the last two years because they discovered they were unable to significantly influence decision-making as the company is still largely directed by its Chinese parent company ByteDance.
Google-owned YouTube has announced major changes to its YouTube Partner Program, allowing creators to earn ad revenue on Shorts, the company’s short-form video content competitor to TikTok. The move signals a major shift by the internet giant to compete with Communist China’s powerhouse social media platform.
The FDA is warning parents of a deadly new TikTok challenge that involves children cooking chicken in NyQuil, “presumably to eat.” It is the latest example of a dangerous stunt spread to young Americans by China’s TikTok.
TikTok COO Vanessa Pappas recently testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, stating that the company will not commit to stopping the transfer of U.S. data to China.
Facebook’s Instagram is struggling to compete with China’s TikTok in the short-form video content realm despite the roll-out of its “Reels” feature. According to internal company documents, the daily watch time of Reels is less than 10 percent of the time spent watching videos on the the massively popular China-owned platform.
Speaking at the Code Conference in Los Angeles, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel gave his thoughts on how China-owned TikTok has dominated the online video market in such a short space of time. Spiegel explained how Communist China has overpowered social media through seemingly unlimited spending, saying: “What nobody had anticipated in the United States was the level of investment that ByteDance made into the U.S. market, and of course in Europe, because it was just something that was unimaginable — no startup could afford to invest billions and billions and billions of dollars in user acquisition like that around the world.”
One Miami-based surgeon is proudly advertising transgender surgeries on the communist China-influenced app TikTok, as the radical left continues in its not-so-subtle efforts to groom children both in the classrooms and on social media.
TikTok is promoting “sketchy” new telehealth startups offering prescription drugs such as Adderall to teenage and young adult users. Prescriptions for Adderall increased by 25 percent for the 24-44 age group during the pandemic, which some experts have attributed to “the emergence of digital mental health platforms.”
Emily Jashinsky, culture editor at The Federalist, explained on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow how TikTok may provide the Chinese Communist Party with the ability to manipulate American voters’ political perceptions.
Top Wall Street analysts recently stated that they could only think of one comparison to TikTok in terms of its addictive nature — crack cocaine. According to Wall Street, Communist China’s TikTok could “ruin” the internet.
A new web-based tool found at InAppBrowser.com allows users to see the detailed information that apps like TikTok and Instagram track when using their in-app browsers.
A software researcher recently claimed that China-owned TikTok’s in-app browser is capable of monitoring and recording user keystrokes, which the company has since confirmed. Of course, the Chinese company is quick to state that the code in its app is only used for “debugging,” but this may be another lie from the company known for its mistruths.
The LinkedIn profiles for hundreds of China-owned Tiktok and ByteDance employees reveal that many used to work for Chinese state media, and in some cases still maintain their employment with Chinese government mouthpieces.
Democrat member of Congress and Ohio Senate candidate Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) continues to ask his constituents to follow him on communist China’s TikTok despite security warnings from the House of Representatives Chief Administrative Office, and despite him pushing a “tough on China” message in his Ohio senate campaign.
Britain’s parliament has killed its own TikTok account merely days after it was launched over fears the platform leaks data to China.
Albanian people smuggling gangs have reportedly been using TikTok to advertise illegal boat crossings of the English Channel.
China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday proudly reported that the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the leading Internet censorship agency of the Communist government, removed “2.351 million illegal short videos” in a three-month crackdown on “pornography, ugliness, oddness, fake, vulgarity, gambling,” and “undesirable information.”
Bloomberg News reported on Friday that internal messages from executives at TikTok, the Chinese-owned video blogging platform, revealed demands from the Chinese government to establish a stealth account to push Chinese Communist Party propaganda to American and European audiences.
Following fierce criticism of changes to Instagram designed to copy Chinese-owned TikTok, platform head Adam Mosseri has announced plans to walk back the updates. Mark Zuckerberg may be obsessed with his future “Metaverse,” but his short-term goal is to recapture the youth market by crushing TikTok and Snapchat.
Joe Rogan pointed out during a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience that the popular social media platform TikTok is sharing user information with China, warning Americans to think twice about using the app.
Former employees of ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, claim that the company placed pro-China propaganda in its now-defunct U.S. news app, TopBuzz.
According to recently leaked internal TikTok documents, the company has been developing PR strategies to respond to criticisms of its links to China, including the fact that it is owned by Chinese company ByteDance.
During an appearance on Tuesday’s broadcast of FBN’s “Fox Business Tonight,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) warned that Big Tech taking information from TikTok and other social media platforms to build profiles of children.
Sisters Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian criticized Facebook’s Instagram on Monday, urging the social media platform to stop mimicking its competitor, the Chinese-owned TikTok.
Truss said the UK “should be cracking down” on TikTok, and China is becoming the a top economy because the West is “enabling” them.
ByteDance, the Chinese corporation that owns the video microblogging platform TikTok, announced this week that it will begin designing and producing its own computer chips with an eye toward chipsets that will maximize the performance of the company’s video software.
Facebook announced this week that it is overhauling the design of its newsfeed to elevate content from “creators” over posts from friends and family in an effort to draw users away from platforms like TikTok.
The controversial Chinese app TikTok has shot up the list of news sources for British teenagers, alongside Instagram and Youtube.
China-owned TikTok is facing claims that its algorithm steers violent videos towards black users rather than white users in a lawsuit blaming the platform for the death of a 14-year-old girl named Englyn Roberts.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who is up for reelection, continues to fight back against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) while his likely Democrat challenger Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) makes TikToks, the Rubio campaign said Wednesday.
Most Americans support removing access to the Chinese-linked app TikTok in the U.S., a Convention of States Action/Trafalgar Group survey released Wednesday found.
Google, Facebook, TikTok, and Facebook-owned Instagram are all suppressing any advertising for Alex’s War, a documentary about the heavily censored radio host Alex Jones, in the runup to the film’s premiere.
Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok has reportedly begun laying off its American, UK, and E.U. employees as part of a global restructuring of the business.
Social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok are negatively impacting users’ finances, as well as causing nearly half of Generation Z and Millennials to feel unhappy about their financial situation, according to a recent study.
On Monday, Rep. James Comer (R-KY) voiced his concern with social media giant TikTok’s access to American users’ data.
A woman recently climbed through a McDonald’s drive-thru window to make her own meal as employees watched, laughing.
Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Mark Warner (D-VA) have called on the FTC to investigate Chinese-owned social media app TikTok and its China-based employees’ access to U.S. user data. The Senators believe the Chinese company’s “repeated misrepresentations” deserve deep scrutiny by the federal government.
The White House sent activists a list of talking points and “suggestions of Biden speech clips to share on TikTok” according to the report.
One of Facebook’s “fact checkers” flagged a post last week from the Babylon Bee, the leading conservative satirical website, in another incident of leftists deliberately or accidentally mistaking comedy for factual claims.
