Under the terms of the bill signed by Biden, ByteDance had nine months to divest itself of TikTok and find new ownership for the social media company. The new owners need to be based in the U.S. or an allied country. The president could extend the time by an additional 90 days if a...
TikTok’s time in the United States is over unless it ends its relationship with CCP-controlled ByteDance.” Krishnamoorthi added: “So long as it is owned by ByteDance and thus required to collaborate with the CCP, TikTok poses critical threats to our national secur...
When challenged if the CCP has seen any non-public user data, he said, “We have never shared information with the Chinese government nor would we […] We have US-based security teams that manage access, manage the app, and, as actual national security agencies like...
TikTok, the popular social video platform owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, has been banned on government-owned devices in several states for security concerns. The latest governors to ban it are in Michigan, Nevada and Arizona.
The comment from a Chinese government official regarding TikTok alone adds context as the app itselfhas tried to distance itselfand downplay its ties to parent company ByteDance and the CCP. During a nearly six-hour congressional hearing Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew insi...
This past Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew fielded questions at a congressional hearing, with some lawmakers drawing ridicule from netizens for allegedly not understanding the workings of social media apps. The question of to what extent the popular app is directly connected to the CCP is ...
However, there is no concrete evidence proving that TikTok has handed over user data to the CCP. At this point, the fear is more about the potential for abuse rather than documented incidents. I do not know what the CCP would do with information about me going to the gym and loving cat...
“Anyone with TikTok downloaded on their device has given the CCP a backdoor to all their personal information. It’s a spy balloon into your phone,” the Texas Republican said. TikTok remains extremely popular and is used by two-thirds of teens in the U.S. But there is increasing conc...
During this era where China and the U.S. tech scenes have overlapped, the Chinese market has been largely impenetrable to the U.S. tech companies because of the Great Firewall, both the software instance and the outright bans from the CCP. But in the reverse direction, America has been ...
While your one and only child spends hours doom scrolling, their children have mandatory time limits. Marketing luminary Scott Galloway gives a strong reason to avoid TikTok: "If I were part of the CCP and recognized a vested interest in undermining America's strategic position globally, I ...