The Chinese Communist Party uses the platform to cultivate a social consensus that undermines U.S. society.
“At the same time, it is also clear that millions of people in the United States use TikTok to express themselves, access information, and participate civically. The First Amendment provides Americans with some of the strongest legal protections for speech in the world.
President Donald Trump has drawn a lot of questions over his executive order that’s helping TikTok still work for its existing U.S. users. The questions have included one about why he changed his stance on the Chinese-owned app after working to ban it during his first presidential term.
TikTok required an American executive to sign an oath supporting China’s “socialist system” and “national interests,” according to documents related
Shanghai-based Xiaohongshu, or RedNote as it is known in English, is a Chinese social media platform growing in popularity as an alternative to TikTok, but with the same security risks.
The law gives authority for a 90-day extension for the app’s Chinese owner ByteDance to complete a divestiture “as long as a viable deal is on the table, Rep. Mike Waltz said.
The popular social media app TikTok has a long history of controversy that has recently come to a temporary rest.
Social media juggernaut TikTok has been given a reprieve thanks to President Trump signing an executive order to delay the enforcement of a ban in America — which amounts to a 75-day lifeline.
The bizarre surge in popularity for Chinese social media app RedNote has sparked alarm among policy experts who warned it carries even greater security risks than TikTok.
If this is how easy it is for foreign adversaries to get in Trump’s good graces, then his second term could go much worse than his first.
After seven years in the US, TikTok could go dark for its US-based users as soon as this weekend. The app’s future is currently in the hands of the Supreme Court, which is expected to decide any day—or even minute—whether to uphold a ban that’s set to kick in on January 19,