On Monday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that she told TikTok’s CEO, “it’s all okay, as long as you end up with Americans owning you. If American companies and people own you, then
Tech giants Google and Apple have restored the Chinese social media platform TikTok to their app stores.
Elon Musk has stated that he is not interested in acquiring the U.S. operations of China’s TikTok, despite recent speculation about a potential sale to the billionaire tech mogul.
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL) discussed his push to ban Chinese AI app DeepSeek from government devices and stated that he believes Congress will ultimately need to act on DeepSeek in a way that
A coalition of teen and adult activists against “digital abuse” targeting youth took to Washington, DC, on Tuesday with Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) standing with them to support the creation of legislation and a nationwide movement.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is offering TikTok creators up to $50,000 a month to post exclusive content on Instagram Reels. Zuckerberg views the uncertain future of China’s TikTok as the perfect opportunity to tighten his grip on the social media landscape.
Police in Quetta, Pakistan, arrested a man this week who reportedly confessed to killing his daughter because he did not approve of her publishing videos on the Chinese social media application TikTok.
Is DeepSeek really a deep con? A psyop tossed out to shake up the financial markets? The release of a Chinese-made artificial intelligence engine called DeepSeek sent a bulldozer through Wall Street this week. Rival AI companies lost hundreds of
President Donald Trump has revealed that Microsoft is in discussions to acquire China’s TikTok, potentially saving it from a ban in the United States. Microsoft is just one of several offers already on the table for the popular social media platform whose owner, ByteDance, faces a sell-or-ban order.
As multiple stakeholders scramble to resolve national security concerns while preserving TikTok’s operations in the US, Perplexity AI has revised its merger proposal to TikTok parent ByteDance, potentially giving the U.S. government a 50 percent stake in the new company upon a future IPO.
“It was brainwashing,” said Stephanie Mistre. “They normalized depression and self-harm, turning it into a twisted sense of belonging.”
Representative Mike Turner (R-OH) said Wednesday on CNN’s “The Lead” that President Donald Trump should not have paused the law requiring China to divest from TikTok.
A transgender TikToker has been jailed in England after pleading guilty to a string of domestic abuse against her former girlfriend, including setting her on fire and strangling her.
President Donald Trump expressed his willingness to consider the possibility of Tesla CEO Elon Musk or Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison purchasing China’s TikTok during a press briefing on Tuesday, while Canadian investor Kevin “Mr. Wonderful” O’Leary remains interested in a deal despite legal hurdles.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) reacted to President Donald Trump arguing that the espionage threat from TikTok is overblown because most users are young, by stating that “it’s designed to be a
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) stated that if ByteDance refuses to sell TikTok, it shows “this was never a business.” And a refusal to sell would be “because their only interest is
On his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing the DOJ not to enforce penalties against app stores and other service providers for working with China’s TikTok for a period of 75 days.
Pope Francis made his debut on TikTok Sunday to promote his new autobiography, written with Italian journalist Carlo Musso for Mondadori.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) criticized TikTok for praising President-elect Donald Trump for vowing to delay a ban on TikTok, stating that he is “not president right now.”
TikTok restored services in the United States after President-elect Donald Trump clarified that he would issue an executive order delaying a ban on the app.
Actor and comedian Michael Rapaport celebrated the shuttering of Chinese-owned social media outlet TikTok, which went dark on Sunday in the wake of a ban put in place by an act of Congress.
American TikTok users were faced with a message that the app was unavailable Sunday and they would not be able to use it, hours before a ban was set to take effect.
“Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary is offering $20 billion in cash to buy communist China’s social media platform TikTok.
Users of China’s spyware-laced social media platform TikTok are reportedly flocking to another app called Xiaohongshu, or “Little Red Book,” in the face of a looming U.S. ban.
Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” host Jordan Klepper mocked TikTok users expressing their outrage over the U.S. banning the Chinese app this Saturday. One TikTok user called the decision the worst thing the United States has ever done.
American President-elect Donald Trump confirmed that he held a phone call with genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on Friday, which he described as a “very good one” that will help Washington and Beijing “solve many problems.”
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Friday, upholding the U.S. sell-or-ban legislation on TikTok, set to be enacted this Sunday.
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.
