Banning TikTok would hit China’s tech ambitions and deepen the global digital divide

TikTok is facing an existential crisis in America. If its Chinese owner fails to sell the app in the next year or so, it could be banned in its biggest market. Read More

Congress passes TikTok sell-or-ban bill, but legal battles loom

Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Proponents of the policy say that the app poses a national security risk. Lawmakers, informed by Biden ... Read More

ByteDance denies report of talks to sell TikTok; Trump says ban would empower Meta - report

TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance (BDNCE) on Sunday denied reports that it had been approached by a U.S. business executive for a potential deal to acquire the short video platform, Global Times ... Read More

China’s ByteDance says TikTok will be its subsidiary under deal with Trump

Accounts of the deal differ. ByteDance said on Monday that it will own 80 percent of TikTok Global, a newly created U.S ... has nothing to do with the deal reached with Oracle and Walmart. Trump ... Read More

If the US bans TikTok, China will be getting a taste of its own medicine

Asked about China’s stance on US ... has the legal ability to do so. It views TikTok’s technology as highly valuable and has taken steps since 2020 to ensure it can veto any sale by ByteDance. Read More

US lawmakers want a TikTok sale or ban, but China’s ByteDance won’t give up without a fight

Institutional investors hold a 60 per cent stake in the company, while the company's global employees own the rest. ByteDance's US ... a TikTok ban may come not only from China. The app has ... Read More

Trump says a ban on TikTok would only help Facebook

Former US President Donald Trump has ... China, and maintain they would refuse to do so if asked. In 2020, Mr Trump signed a presidential executive order that directed ByteDance to sell off TikTok ... Read More

TikTok owner ByteDance stays hands-off as video app faces US ban, leaving local team to become more aggressive

ByteDance's strategy is markedly different from four years ago, when then-US president Donald Trump attempted to force a sale of TikTok ... stores has been much more aggressive. Do you have ... Read More

China says moves to ban TikTok will 'eventually backfire on US'

China has remained protective of ByteDance, TikTok's Beijing-based parent ... fight any potential ban in US courts, something the company did when the Trump administration placed it under its ... Read More

TikTok a US security threat, says Trump, similar to Facebook -CNBC

The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote this week on legislation that gives China's ByteDance ... joined TikTok. Trump's campaign has not joined TikTok. Reuters, the news and media ... Read More

Trump raises concerns about TikTok ban, says Facebook will ‘double their business’

Republican Senator Rand Paul, who previously blocked attempts to fast-track a TikTok ban, responded to Trump’s statement that said the former president helped address concerns about US users of ... Read More

Trump says children would 'go crazy' if they didn't have TikTok and a ban would give power to 'enemy of the people' Facebook

Trump argued that Facebook and other American social media platforms also shared data with China. ‘They’re not so American, they deal in ... bill ordering TikTok’s owner ByteDance to sell ... Read More