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 ...

It is a challenge for TikTok's parent company ByteDance as well as global ambitions for other Chinese tech companies.

TikTok's Beijing-based owner was among the companies under pressure this month to get tough on moneymaking stunts after a livestreamer reportedly drank himself to death two weeks ago. China's most ...

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 ...

The Chinese equivalent of TikTok is less harmful to young users than TikTok, Jonathan Haidt said. The author of "The Anxious Generation" spoke to Business Insider at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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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 ...

A new law passed this week would ban TikTok in the United States unless ByteDance, its Chinese owner, sells the popular video app. National security is at the heart of bipartisan concerns in ...

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 ...