White House trade advisor Peter Navarro said on Sunday that the United States will take “strong action” against China’s WeChat messaging service, as well as the controversial Chinese-owned video-sharing social media platform TikTok.
China-owned social media app TikTok has reportedly begun evaluating changes to the corporate structure of its business as U.S. concerns over TikTok’s ties to the Chinese communist party grow.
Jeff Bezos’ e-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly instructed all employees to delete the Chinese-owned video app TikTok from their cellphones over “security risks,” according to a company email. Employees that do not remove TikTok will lose the ability to access their Amazon email via their smartphone.
Netflix host “Science Guy” Bill Nye shared a video warning that wearing masks is “literally a matter of life and death.”
Authorities recently identified the bodies of two people discovered by teenagers filming TikTok videos on a beach in Seattle last month.
Marquette University reportedly threatened to rescind the admission of a student over TikTok videos that expressed support for President Donald Trump. After a period of uncertainty, Marquette ultimately told the student this week that they would not revoke her admission.
The TikTok messaging platform has been frantically trying to convince the rest of the world – including boycott-minded Indians and possibly ban-minded American officials – that it’s not a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) company, but rather a fully private and independent company that just happens to be headquartered in Beijing until it can find somewhere else to live. The CCP did the company no favors on Wednesday by running a state media editorial brimming with nationalist pride for the popular “Chinese short-video sharing app.”
TikTok should be banned from the U.S. given its role in surveilling Americans, said Gordon Chang, Daily Beast columnist and author of The Great U.S.-China Tech War, offering his comments on the Wednesday edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday confirmed that his administration is looking at banning the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok.
The popular video app TikTok announced on Monday it will leave the Hong Kong market in the coming days following China’s imposition of a new “national security” law severely limiting the city’s freedoms.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated during a Fox News interview with Laura Ingraham that the United States is “looking at” banning TikTok and other Chinese-owned social media apps. After raising how the government has dealt with the threat of Chinese telecom companies like Huawei, Pompeo said, “With respect to Chinese apps on peoples’ cellphones, the United States will get this one right too.”
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated that the United States is looking into restrictions or bans on Chinese social media apps such as TikTok and urged people to avoid downloading the TikTok app unless they want to hand information over to the CCP.
The self-proclaimed “front page of the internet,” Reddit, has promised to release a fix for its iOS app which spies on users by copying contents from iPhones’ clipboards. China-owned TikTok was recently caught by Apple using the same technique in its iPhone app.
According to a recent report, prisoners in the United States are finding success posting to the popular Chinese social media app TikTok detailing their lives inside the U.S. prison system. Prisoners access the app using smartphones smuggled into jail.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi quit the Chinese social media site Weibo on Wednesday after his government took the decision to ban 59 Chinese apps on the grounds that they represented a threat to national security.
A Harvard University graduate was reportedly fired from her job recently because she threatened to stab anyone who told her “All Lives Matter” in a video she posted on the China-owned social media platform TikTok.
Recent Harvard University graduate Claira Janover is complaining of threats against her after she posted a video threatening anyone who told her “all lives matter.”
Chinese state media warn India’s ban on TikTok and other Chinese apps will hurt Indian consumers and businesses more.
The Indian government on Monday banned 59 Chinese-developed apps citing “national security” concerns, TechCrunch reported.
Video footage of a man swimming in a large fish tank on Thursday at a Bass Pro Shops in Bossier City, Louisiana, has taken the Internet by storm.
A report published on Friday suggests that the megapopular China-owned social media application TikTok was spying on users through a vulnerability in the latest version of Apple’s iOS smartphone firmware.
AOC cheered reports of teenagers and Korean pop music fans using the Chinese-owned app TikTok to sign up for Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa.
“For the media to now celebrate the fear that they helped create is disgusting but typical,” Parscale wrote in a lengthy statement to reporters.
The 2020 election just became about China — in a big way. And the result could determine whether the United States prevails, or fails, in the fight to protect our freedom.
Opponents of President Donald Trump celebrated the fact that his rally at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday night was only half-full, claiming credit for a TikTok prank that flooded the Trump campaign’s website with fake RSVPs.
According to a recent study, children aged between four and 15 spend 85 minutes per day watching YouTube compared with 80 minutes per day spent watching the Chinese-owned video app TikTok.
China-owned social media app TikTok stated on Monday that it will create a “creator diversity council” to address criticisms that it censors black creators.
TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media platform that has reached massive popularity with American teens, has poached from the upper ranks of the Walt Disney Company to find its new CEO.
Matthew Stewart and his grandma used their burgeoning TikTok popularity to post a video of an at-home “salon” day during lockdown in April.
A group of privacy organizations say that TikTok is in violation of a law that protects children’s privacy on the Internet, as well as an FTC consent decree.
Chinese billionaire Zhang Yiming, the founder of massively popular social media app TikTok, has pledged $10 million to the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator founded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
A Kentucky woman was caught on cell phone video wearing a mask with a hole cut it in because she claimed it made it “easier to breathe.”
Britain’s police brass have warned frontline constables to stop sharing videos of themselves performing “dancing, rapping TikTok challenges” which do not “show respect for the uniform they wear”.
A group of prisoners granted early release in the Indonesian province of Gorontalo last week celebrated their freedom by making a TikTok video dancing to music from Spongebob Squarepants, the Asian outlet Coconuts reported on Tuesday.
China-owned social media platform TikTok has recruited American professors to serve on its “content advisory council” to calm concerns that it engages in censorship at the behest of the Chinese government.
According to a recent report, China-owned social media site TikTok instructed its moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” and “poor” people in order to attract new users to the platform.
A golden retriever puppy who lost one of her ears due to an accident at birth is becoming Instagram famous as the “Golden Unicorn.”
According to a recent report, the founder of ByteDance, the Chinese company behind popular social media app TikTok, has told employees that the company will be focusing on global expansion in the coming years.
Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) introduced a bill this week aiming to ban federal employees from using the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok on their government-issued phones.
A widely viewed TikTok video that has drawn horrified responses shows a girl laughing and apparently having fun as she reveals her pregnancy and heads to Planned Parenthood for what appears to be her second abortion attempt.
