His lawsuit accuses TikTok of causing "profound psychological and physiological harms" - including depression, anxiety and body dysmorphia. Other claims in the mass legal action include that a "virtual strip club with no age restrictions" is effectively able to operate via TikTok's live streaming...
The fate of Americans' access to TikTok has become a prominent issue in the country's political debates, with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump opposing a ban. Democratic President Joe Biden, whose vice president Kamala Harris is running against Trump, signed the law that gives TikTok ...
The legal fight is expected to become an election issue as former president Donald Trump, who recently joined TikTok, has spoken out against a ban. Much may depend on the public reaction to the legal process ahead, with millions of younger voters likely to be upset if a potential TikTok out...
They contend that if the national security law culminates in a ban on TikTok, it should be applied to other Chinese-owned entities across the US. The legal fight is expected to become an election issue as former president Donald Trump, who recently joined TikTok, has spoken out against a b...
Ironically, during the more-than-five-hour hearing, the US lawmakers did not try to resolve the issue of ensuring data security and turned it into a preplanned political show to smear TikTok and China. The hearing was held following the Joe Biden administration's reported threat to ban TikTok...
“There’s real reason to be concerned that the use of this law will not stop with TikTok,” Toomey said. “Looking at that point and the bigger picture, banning TikTok or forcing its sale would be a devastating blow to the U.S. government’s decades of work prom...
On TikTok, Instagram and YouTube they share clips of Milei explaining inflation or the peso, anime-style cartoons, and viral videos of Milei, such as one where he tears down sticky notes with the names of ministries he plans to shut, angrily shouting "afuera" - out with ...
sought to force ByteDance to sell off its U.S. assets and ban TikTok from app stores. Courts blocked Trump’s efforts, and President Joe Biden rescinded Trump’s orders after taking office but ordered an in-depth study of the issue. A planned sale of TikTok’s U.S. assets was shelv...
Ironically, during the more-than-five-hour hearing, the US lawmakers did not try to resolve the issue of ensuring data security and turned it into a preplanned political show to smear TikTok and China. The hearing was held following the Joe Biden administration's reported threat to ban TikTok...
“It’s really important to think of this not in terms of just TikTok, but in terms of all foreign platforms in the future,” Douek said. “In a globalized world, this issue is going to come up again and again. And if the government is handed the power to simply ban a platform ba...