Zoom was caughtrerouting external video calls through China, a behavior far more serious than anything we’ve seen from TikTok. Equifax lost data frommore than 100 million people(possibly working for Russia, de
Last year, a California researcher and college student Misty Hongsued ByteDance, TikTok and Musical.ly, alleging in the lawsuit that the short-form video app has been illegally and secretly harvesting vast amounts of personally identifiable user data and sending it to China. Censorship worries Yaq...
During an interviewon NBC’sMeet the Press, President Donald Trump said he’d “be willing” toextend TikTok’s June 19thdeadline if its China-based parent company, ByteDance, doesn’t reach a deal to divest the app’s US business in time. Chinabacked out of a potential deallast month ...
There were a few crooked kids I bicycled with who urged me to shoplift and then, when one of our number was caught, they framed me as the criminal mastermind, even though it had never been my idea. I felt ashamed and guilty about stuffing a Weird Al Yankovic cassette down my pants ...
The company says that the strike system won’t apply for “severe violations” — anyone caught posting child sexual abuse material, threats of real-world violence, or other extreme content may still be immediately banned. The section of TikTok’s safety center that will let you see the strike...
You’ve got your tie caught in your fly. Thus things get changed for humorous intent, or sometimes to carry a different meaning or message the audiance will pick up on. [1] The song like the events it poetrayed is much contested in many ways and History as is often the case is not...
Adam Satariano, “TikTok Fined $600 Million for Sending European User Data to China” (May 2, 2025), nytimes.com Sapna Maheshwari, “TikTok, Facing a U.S. Ban, Tells Advertisers: We’re Here and Confident” (May 6, 2025), nytimes.com...
Before Bytedance bought Musical.ly and rebranded it TikTok, its Musical.ly clone called Douyin was already a sensation in the Chinese market thanks in large part to its effective algorithm. A few years ago, on a visit to Beijing, I caught up with a bunch of former colleagues from Hulu Be...
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TikTok has been trying to appease critics in the U.S. and distance itself from its Chinese roots, but finds itself caught in an increasingly sticky geopolitical web. It recently named a new CEO, former Disney executive Kevin Mayer, a move experts said could help it navigate U.S. regulators...