Last year, U.S. Congress passed legislation that would force TikTok's China-based parent company ByteDance to sell the social media platform under the threat of a ban. U.S. President Joe Biden signed the legislation into law in April, giving ByteDance until Jan. 19 to divest from TikTok. ...
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The US is getting increasingly aggressive about TikTok. In March, the House of Representativespassed a billthat could see the Chinese social media app banned across the entire country due to security concerns. If signed into law, the bill would give ByteDance — the company that ownsTikTok— si...
consented to a sexual situation should not be put into that situation, whether in physical or virtual life. But the genie is out of the bottle, and it's staying there. "Gal Gadot" remains one of the top terms associated with deepfake searches on Google, as the company's own Trends ...
While manyTikTokusers refer to the quiz as the "Kink Test," it’s formally called the BDSM test, and it's been around a lot longer than the viral TikTok trend. It was created in 2014 with themissionof making "a simple, accessible test to help beginning kinksters determine which labels...
In September 2020, ByteDance made atentative $12 Billion dealto create a US subsidiary called TikTok Global. This new TikTok subsidiary would be part-owned by the US companies Oracle and Walmart. With the new deal in place, Oracle and Walmart will own 20% of the new company, ByteDance sa...
The future of TikTok is up in the air. Recently, federal judges on the D.C. circuit upheld the constitutionality ofa bill introduced back in April. This bill would ban the social media platform TikTok in the United States unless TikTok’s parent company,ByteDance, divests from all U.S. ...
TikTok (owned by Chinese company ByteDance) has largely replaced YouTube as a way of creating and sharing online videos. The app is powered by an algorithm has already drawn criticism for routinely collecting data about users, as well as the ByteDance's secretive approach tocontent moderation and...
Tiktok says it will fight the law in the US courts, saying that it grossly violates free speech rights. The company has some reason to feel that it will prevail; in 2020, the company survived a similar order from then President Donald Trump. ...
The proposed deal would have created a new spinoff, TikTok Global. Oracle would own a 12.5% stake in the company and become its cloud provider in the U.S.20In addition, Walmart tentatively agreed to buy a 7.5% stake in TikTok Global. It planned live-streamed shopping events hosted on ...