Senate Bill 419,sponsored by Senator Shelly Vance (R, Belgrade) passed the Senate Business, Labor, and Economic Affairs Committee on Monday (2/27) by a seven to three vote following testimony from Montana Department of Justice representatives.The bill would completely ban TikTok in Montana....
000 per user of a banned app. So, in the case of TikTok, Apple and Google could potentially be on the hook for up to $850 billion in fines each.
President-elect Donald Trump, who tried to ban the app with an executive order during his first term that was struck down in the courts, vowed this year to "save" it. On Monday, Trump touted TikTok as playing a role in helping him with the youth vote and winning the 2024 election. He...
Meanwhile, the political road for TikTok remains uncertain despite the political heat. Wedbush puts the odds of TikTok getting banned in the U.S. at only 25%. A Senate bill requiring ByteDance to cut ties with TikTok would require 60 votes to pass — a tall order even given a measure of...
President Donald Trump has tried to ban TikTok, the wildly popular short-video app owned by Chinese technology company ByteDance, on the grounds that the app’s Chinese ownership poses a national security threat. U.S. officials claim that TikTok allows the Chinese government to access user data...
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), led by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, requested ByteDance to sell its stake in TikTok in March 2023, or face the possibility of the application being banned. However, no action has been taken by the U.S. administrati...
RELATED: Will TikTok Be Banned In January? Here’s What’s Happening It’s unclear how quickly The Supreme Court may issue a decision. Lawyers for the company and China-based ByteDance had urged the justices to intervene before Jan. 19. The high court also will hear arguments from content ...
After the skirmish with China at the Galwan valley border, the Indian Government banned59 Chinese apps including TikTok. The government had cited data theft and security concerns as the main reason for the ban. Now, it has gone a step further and banned 47 additional apps in the country. In...
TikTok faces November 12 deadline that could result in the app getting banned in the U.S. At first, the president gave a thumbs up to a deal that would create a new company called TikTok Global that would be 80% owned by ByteDance and 20% owned by U.S. firms Oracle and W...
The app’s China-based owner, ByteDance, filed a lawsuit Tuesday, calling the measure unconstitutional. Critics of thesell-or-be-banned ultimatumargue it violates TikTok users' First Amendment rights. But a court challenge's success is not guaranteed. The law's opponents, ...