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Lawmakers making allegations against TikTok fail to mention that the United States itself surveils non-US nationals under Section 702 of FISA. The types of data collected by TikTok are also collected by other social media platforms and sold through brokers to private buyers and reportedly government agencies as well, without oversight.
An Act to prohibit certain individuals from downloading or using TikTok on any device issued by the United States or a government corporation. Enacted by. the 117th United States Congress. Effective. December 29, 2022. Legislative history. Introduced in the Senate as S. 1143 by Josh Hawley ( R - MO) on April 15, 2021.
TikTok has vowed to challenge in court a new law that could result in a ban of the video app in the US, calling the bill "unconstitutional." But the social media giant could find that it is on ...
April 26, 2024 at 3:46 PM. By David Shepardson. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Erich Andersen, general counsel for TikTok and Chinese parent company ByteDance, will step down from that role in June to ...
Authored by Oxford Economics, the commissioned study claims TikTok drove $14.7 billion in revenue in a dozen key sectors in the US economy and contributed $24.2 billion to overall GDP in 2023.
TikTok, whose mainland Chinese counterpart is Douyin, is a short-form video hosting service owned by Chinese internet company ByteDance. It hosts user-submitted videos, which can range in duration from three seconds to 60 minutes. It can be accessed with a smart phone app.
May 15, 2024 at 11:05 AM. Billionaire businessman and real estate mogul Frank McCourt said he’s putting together a consortium to purchase TikTok’s U.S. business, adding to the number of ...
Trump's ban threat and his indication he would oppose any sale to an American buyer was condemned by TikTok users, many of whom argued that national security concerns were being used as a cover by the administration to justify a ban as retaliation for pranks aimed at Trump by TikTok users (particularly, a ticket-purchasing effort to inflate ...
If TikTok loses, it says it would be forced to shut down next year. The law requires ByteDance to sell the platform to a U.S.-approved buyer within nine months. If a sale is already in progress...
First released to the public in September 2017, TikTok is a video-sharing social networking service used to make short-form videos, from genres like dance, comedy, and education. [76] [77] On 9 November 2017, ByteDance acquired Shanghai -based social media start-up Musical.ly for up to US$ 1 billion.