TikTok is fighting to stay alive in the United States as pressure builds in Washington to ban the app if its Chinese owners don’t sell the company. But the wildly popular platform, developed with ...

Regular users of the short-video app TikTok are more likely to subscribe to narratives that favor the Chinese government, according to research published this month in Taiwan. In a public opinion poll ...

Critics of TikTok have pointed to an allegedly tamer version in China. The push in Washington, D.C., for a potential TikTok ban has drawn mounting scrutiny toward the app over data privacy risks tied ...

Stephen Graham of 'Adolescence' says research took its co-writer down 'a lot of dark holes' ...

One in seven people in the world use TikTok. Yet for the company behind such a cultural phenomenon, the last few years have been a rollercoaster. Concerns over the app first surfaced more than five ...

Iran has used the short video app Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, to spread propaganda about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while Chinese state media outlets have shared the Iranian ...

A moderation system run by ByteDance staff in China uses word lists to detect or suppress content about everything from TikTok rival YouTube to marginalized Uyghurs to 2024 presidential candidate ...

Apple is leaning into TikTok's massive influence in China by opening a Douyin storefront where fans can buy iPhone and more with Douyin Pay. Douyin is China's version of TikTok — ByteDance, the parent ...

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China’s TikTok, which has taken the world by storm, is working its magic in its home nation, too. The report, which describes the user behavior and trends, illustrates the cultural difference between ...

ByteDance Ltd.’s sales surged in 2023 to more than $110 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, potentially overtaking arch-foe Tencent Holdings Ltd. in a sign TikTok’s fledgling ...

The summer holiday is meant to be a time for both students and parents to relax. But deliberately anxiety-inducing marketing content has proliferated on Chinese social media, exploiting parents’ fears ...