Ph. TikTok takes on the U.S. government. Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images Eric Smalley, The Conversation and Matt Williams, The Conversation A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Dec. 6, 2024, upheld a law requiring TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the video app
ph. Tiktok is not the only social media app to pose the threats it’s been accused of. picture alliance via Getty Images Nir Eisikovits, UMass Boston The U.S. government moved closer to banning the video social media app TikTok after the House of Representatives attached the measure to an emergency spending bill on
Google, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram: All major Internet platforms with more than 45 million monthly users are now subject to stricter rules in Europe. For example, they must label advertising more clearly and disclose who is paying for it. Advertising aimed at children is thus banned altogether. Sensitive data such as origin, political
Is a wildly popular social media app a threat to U.S. citizens? AP Photo/Michael Dwyer Doug Jacobson, Iowa State University On May 24, 2023, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed legislation banning TikTok in the state. The law imposes fines of US$10,000 per day on any app store that offers the popular Chinese-owned video
The US Congress recently held a hearing to discuss concerns about the popular video-sharing app, TikTok, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance. The app has been the subject of several controversies, including allegations of censorship and data privacy concerns. The focus of the hearing was to explore whether TikTok poses a national
TikTok, the popular short-video sharing app, has recently released a report that highlights the presence of covert influence networks in Russia that have been misleading European users. The report suggests that these networks have been spreading misinformation and creating fake accounts, and have been difficult to detect and moderate. Misinformation and fake accounts
Lynn Ma, NYCity News Service, Chalkbeat New York This story originally appeared on Dec. 13 in the NYCity News Service, run by the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Logan Lane was 11 when she got her first smartphone. Like many kids, she started using Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok. When she was
Solidarity with Amazon workers on TikTok: More than 70 young and influential TikTok influencers refuse to advertise for Amazon on their social media channels. They will not do so until Amazon drastically improves working conditions for employees. Furthermore they demand that the online giant stops their fight against unions. Put people over (Amazon)
Ranta Images/Shutterstock Shweta Singh, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick During lockdown, my 65-year-old mother did something that actually shocked me. She started going on to TikTok so she could watch and follow her favourite “Dancing Dadi” – which means grandmother in Hindi. I was genuinely taken aback to discover that my mother
The Chinese application, TikTok, for short videos, and the American company, Oracle, have reached a preliminary agreement according to which the company will be its technical provider in the United States and Walmart, the trading partner, prior to the enforcement of a federal ban on the Chinese company that owns the application. Oracle