As a bill that could shut down TikTok's U.S. presence hurtles forward, the company is calling on its creators to share what TikTok has meant to them. Many say the app has become a lifeline.
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TikTok, whose mainland Chinese counterpart is Douyin, is a Chinese short-form video hosting service owned by ByteDance. It hosts user-submitted videos, which can range in duration from 3 seconds to 10 minutes.
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The app is offering incentives for creators who post long-form landscape videos, but many remain skeptical
Universal’s current contract with the social-media app is set to expire Wednesday, and no new agreement has been reached.
The video-sharing app said it had walled off American data in Project Texas, but employees said data is still sometimes shared with its China-based parent.
This nation of 30 million people has banned TikTok, effective immediately, due to its threat to social order.
The creator fund also sparked backlash after a Forbes report showed that the company was storing creators’ data on servers in China when they promised to do so in the United States.
Understaffing, overcrowding and a lack of healthcare fueled a crisis in a state with the world’s highest incarceration rate
Legal action comes after some of the platform’s users sued the state’s attorney general
Suit against state’s attorney general alleges the ban of the social-media platform is unconstitutional and violates the First Amendment.
On Wednesday, following the governor's signing of the law, Knudsen, who, like Gianforte, is a Republican, called TikTok "a Chinese Communist Party spying tool that poses a threat to every Montanan."
The legislation is the most extreme prohibition of the app in the nation and will almost certainly face legal challenges.
Supporters of the first-of-its-kind-bill expect legal challenges if the governor signs the legislation.3 min read