The Blackstone TikTok exit has dealt a serious blow to TikTok’s hopes of resolving its US regulatory challenges through a ...

In January, TikTok took itself offline for about 14 hours — and app stores removed access to the platform in the United States — after the law’s initial sale-or-ban deadline passed with no deal.

Our study is based on a massive dataset of over 16 million TikTok videos from more than 160,000 public accounts between 2019 and 2023. We saw a spike of political TikTok videos during the 2020 U.S ...

Trump said his EO will give TikTok's Chinese parent company another 75 days to sell its stake in the social media app or else be banned in the U.S.

It gave parent company ByteDance until Jan. 19, 2025 to divest TikTok or face the ban. Some political officials have seen TikTok as a national security threat for years, expressing concern that ...

Meanwhile, in January, Trump signed an executive order granting TikTok a 75-day extension to complete a sale or face a ban in the US. This deadline has created urgency in the negotiations between ...

TikTok, the only one of the three that prohibits political advertising altogether, did not. Global Witness’s researchers submitted the same eight ads to each platform, according to the report.

First, TikTok scoops up data on its 170 million monthly users in the U.S., which could potentially be used to track federal employees or to conduct blackmail or corporate espionage.

TikTok was gone for 14 hours. That’s just about the length of a nonstop flight from Hawaii to New York, or a teenager’s Saturday night sleep.

That’s despite the platform’s ban on all political ads in place since 2019. The ads never appeared on TikTok because Global Witness pulled them before they went online.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is “probably” going to extend the TikTok sale deadline. An executive order signed by Trump gave the social media’s Chinese parent company ...

One of the key factors behind successful political engagement on TikTok is authenticity. The platform thrives on genuine, relatable content. Politicians who can showcase a more human side tend to ...