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A bill that would force controversial app TikTok to sever ties with its Chinese parent company ByteDance or get banned in the U.S. goes to a House vote on Wednesday.

On Monday’s “CNN This Morning,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) said that TikTok “used the geolocation data of minor children’s locations to then spread misinformation” about the bill to force a sale of it and this shows that they will use

On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN NewsNight,” Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) stated that he has moved towards leaning in favor of voting to force Chinese divestment from TikTok and that the Biden campaign should get off an app that is clearly

On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) said that TikTok “flooding my office and other offices with calls [from] kids who didn’t know why they were calling us, shows the kind of control that they have”

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr told Breitbart News on Sunday that Congress should pass a bill that would ban TikTok in the United States.

Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has reportedly expressed interest in buying China’s TikTok amid talk of banning the app in the United States, given that its parent company is the Chinese tech giant ByteDance, which is beholden to the Chinese Communist regime.

Former President Donald Trump said Monday on CNBC’s Squawk Box” that if TikTok is banned, it will benefit Facebook, which is an “enemy of the people.”

Disney’s ABC is teaming up with the Chinese social media app TikTok for Oscars red carpet coverage on Sunday.

Shark Tank star and investor Kevin O’Leary said Friday on Fox News Channel’s “The Story” that he or somebody else American will buy TikTok so it is not shut down.

Former President Donald Trump says a ban of China’s TikTok app would only help Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook platform, which is the “true enemy of the people.” Although Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has shown an extreme leftist bias and a willingness to interfere in elections, Peter Schweizer has uncovered China Communist Party and Chinese military officials referring to TikTok as a “modern day Trojan Horse” and “information-driven mental warfare” aimed squarely at American teenagers.

An 11-year-old U.K. boy is dead after taking part in a TikTok trend called “chroming.” His family is now calling for the app to be banned.

A bipartisan bill could force Chinese tech company ByteDance to sell its popular video-sharing TikTok app within six months or face a ban from the United States.

A Chicago-area mailman and a local pup are breaking the norm with their iconic friendship, which has brought joy to millions.

A revised social media regulation bill is being proposed in Florida after Governor Ron DeSantis vetoed an initial version that sought to ban minors under 16 from platforms regardless of parental consent. As one Florida republican notes, Silicon Valley’s “business model is addiction that causes harm to children for profit.”

A pair of teenage TikTokers have gone viral and outraged local officials for breaking into the new under-construction arena for the Los Angeles Clippers NBA team.

A billboard in New York City’s Times Square slammed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — known as “AOC” — as “AO-CCP” over her support for the Chinese social media app TikTok.

China cites President Joe Biden’s campaign page on TikTok as evidence that the U.S. government has been lying about the dangers of the app.

The Chinese-owned social media company TikTok has denied advertisements for Peter Schweizer’s new book “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans,” deeming the ad too “political.”

The CCP is using TikTok as a “modern day Trojan Horse” to inject its propaganda into the minds of America’s youth, according to restricted Chinese military journals uncovered in Peter Schweizer’s new book: Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and 14 other Republican senators and representatives are urging President Joe Biden to delete his newly created TikTok account, given that the app is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.

On Monday’s edition of NBC’s “MTP Now,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) reacted to President Joe Biden’s campaign getting a TikTok account by stating that he doesn’t have an account on his personal device because “China-based employees are able to both manipulate

The annual Met Gala has a new sponsor — China’s TikTok, which will have a major presence at this year’s celebrity ball.

China’s TikTok claims it is expanding its initiatives to combat misinformation and covert influence campaigns leading up to the European Parliament elections in June.

In a move of desperation, the UK is planning to pay influencers on TikTok to try to persuade migrants from entering the country illegally.

Major technology companies including Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, OpenAI, Google and China’s TikTok are signing an agreement aimed at curbing the malicious use of artificial intelligence to meddle in elections.

President Joe Biden has officially joined the Chinese app TikTok in an effort to reach younger voters. The president uploaded his first TikTok video on Sunday, alongside the caption, “lol hey guys.”

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Inside Politics,” CNN Chief National Security Analyst Jim Sciutto stated that while he’s “sure” President Joe Biden “has all the security measures necessary so that they’re not stealing data from him by the fact that

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Wednesday said there was a “hell of a coincidence” in how Shou Zi Chew became the CEO of TikTok the day after he brokered a deal with China.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told China’s TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew during a senate hearing on Wednesday that Tennessee is not going to be rolling out “the welcome mat” for a proposed company HQ in Memphis.

Taylor Swift, Drake, The Weeknd and Olivia Rodrigo are amongst a host of stars who have had their music catalogs removed from TikTok after negotiations to renew licensing agreements broke down.

Executives from TikTok, Meta, X (Twitter), Snap, and Discord will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the exploitation of children online.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday to defend Facebook and Instagram’s impact on young users amid ongoing scrutiny of the tech giant’s social media platforms. Executives of Snapchat, TikTok, X/Twitter, and Discord will also testify.

China’s TikTok said it has spent $1.5 billion developing an operation meant to convince U.S. lawmakers that it is safe for Americans to use the app. The company’s executives have also promised to wall-off U.S. user data and bring in engineers and third parties to verify the algorithm functions without interference from the Chinese Communist regime. TikTok, however, has so far failed to live up to its promises.

Online “sextortion” is the fastest-growing crime targeting kids in the West, and social media companies are failing to do more to prevent it, according to a recent study.

TikTok has restricted one tool researchers use to analyze popular videos, a move that follows a barrage of criticism directed at the social media platform about content related to the Israel-Hamas war.

A recent study claims that almost half of all British teenagers view themselves as addicted to social media, reigniting debates on the impact of online platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter on younger users.