The Chinese state propaganda newspaper Global Times celebrated a surge in American users downloading the Chinese social media application Xiaohongshu (“Little Red Book”) in anticipation of a potential ban on Tiktok in the United States.
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.
Peter Schweizer says TikTok is a valuable weapon in Communist China’s war with the West. ByteDance does joint research with Chinese intelligence agencies on how to manipulate people online.
China is wielding TikTok as a weapon to wage unrestricted warfare on the United States. This is why the Chinese Communist Party views TikTok as a “modern day Trojan Horse” and classified its powerful algorithm as a top secret “national security asset.”
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.
Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that Tiktok’s service will be disrupted because Congress has banned it.
Thousands of Romanians gathered on Friday outside the parliament building in Bucharest, which also houses the country’s Constitutional Court, to protest the court’s annulment of the November presidential election.
China’s TikTok is facing backlash for its policy towards employees in the Los Angeles area who are being impacted by the devastating wildfires ravaging the region.
Attempt to latch onto TikTok trend sees sex with “young girls” lyrics as gov tries to tell public it’s taking sexual exploitation seriously.
In the wake of the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, social media platforms are facing challenges in moderating the influx of content from leftists praising and glorifying his alleged assassin, Luigi Mangione.
Chinese tech giant ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, is reportedly planning to invest heavily in cloud-based access to Nvidia GPUs to circumvent U.S. sanctions that prevent the company from purchasing the high-performance processors used for AI directly.
A recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center has shed light on the shifting social media landscape among teenagers, with nearly half of them reporting being online almost constantly. Teens are moving away from X/Twitter and Facebook as they continue to embrace China’s TikTok as their platform of choice.
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) argued that China cannot be allowed to dictate the algorithm on TikTok that determines what Gen Z sees on the app, “and Donald Trump himself understood that.” But, by asking
The longstanding spat between former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has continued, as the former ambassador attacked Ramaswamy’s pro-visa stance.
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.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), who is President-Elect Donald Trump’s pick to be national security adviser, stated that President-Elect Trump “is a fan of TikTok. He wants to save TikTok. We absolutely
On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) stated that the danger of TikTok is “a potential danger” because “to date,” China has “not used TikTok as a way to either
The Romanian Constitutional Court on Friday annulled the first round of the presidential election after declassified intelligence documents suggested Russian influence operations gave nationalist candidate Calin Georgescu his surprising victory.
Australian politicians describe their ban on children under 16 using social media as “world-leading,” but in truth, the rest of the world is not far behind them. An international consensus against permitting children on social media gained momentum in 2024, despite deep reservations from Internet freedom advocates.
Bluesky, the leftist echo chamber that has enjoyed explosive growth since the election, has pledged to adhere to the EU’s censorship-happy regulations following accusations of noncompliance by the bloc’s authorities.
Australia is rushing to get a new law banning children under 16 from using most social media platforms through parliament.
Canadian police are disrupting a growing number of Islamic State terrorist plots in major cities, a resurgence driven by ISIS recruiting young Canadians to its ranks.
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Brendan Carr to serve as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Anti-Trump women are vowing abstinence — swearing off sex and dating men — after the former president became the president-elect once again on Tuesday.
Leftists are having a collective meltdown on social media after President-elect Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election in a sweeping victory.
A joint Venezuelan journalistic investigation published on Monday across several local outlets revealed how socialist regime officials used social media to publicly hunt dissidents and brand them “enemies” and “terrorists” in the wake of the fraudulent July 28 presidential election.
A federal judge has ruled that major tech companies must face lawsuits brought by school districts alleging their social media apps have contributed to a mental health crisis among students. The lawsuits target Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, Google, China’s TikTok, and Snapchat.
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.
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman stated that former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar engaged in “a human sacrifice” of Palestinians because he attacked Israel to produce a reaction and then “He provided no warning, no shelter for
A woman is facing ridicule after posting a viral TikTok of her attacking a New Jersey gyro shop by ripping down a banner while screaming “Free Palestine” before realizing the flags were Greek, not Israeli.
China’s TikTok admits in its own research that “compulsive usage correlates with a slew of negative mental health effects like loss of analytical skills, memory formation, contextual thinking, conversational depth, empathy, and increased anxiety.” The internal documents have been revealed as part of a lawsuit against the Chinese platform.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that “Gen Z hearts are hardened by the propaganda you see on TikTok” into a relative indifference towards the Jewish victims of October 7 and into supporting Iran and
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
A TikToker has denounced the Oprah Winfrey Show and Vice President Kamala Harris for using a clip of her during a town hall interview.
Republican FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak published a report on Thursday expressing concern with Big Tech facilitating content harmful to children, but also warning that in addressing such harmful online content, the Biden-Harris FTC could take actions that result in the censorship of Americans’ online speech.
A new TikTok trend has Trump supporters mocking Taylor Swift over her recent endorsement of Kamala Harris, using her hit single “22” to express their support for former President Donald Trump.
