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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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Up to 1.4m children under 13 use app, watchdog finds – and experts say they are being flooded with harmful content to promote addiction
It isn’t just the algorithms, but lessons from a cutthroat culture
China has blasted back at foreign accusations as TikTok faces mounting calls for a ban in the United States.
The US government is demanding that TikTok's Chinese owners sell the social media platform, or risk facing a ban.
Washington’s gangster-like attempts to take over the social media app reveal an inability to tolerate competition
The move is in line with what the US, Canada, and the EU are doing, according to an official statement
Washington is demanding that the app’s Chinese owners sell their stake, company representatives have said
The demand hardens the White House’s stance toward the popular video app, which is owned by the Chinese internet company ByteDance.
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Canada joins U.S., EU in banning app from government-issued devices
The Chinese-owned video-sharing app also said it had 125 million monthly active users in the EU
As tech companies announce brutal cutbacks, talk continues to swirl over the growing influence of Tik Tok and the power it wields.
A separate bipartisan bill that was introduced in Congress on Dec. 13 would ban the TikTok app for everyone in the United States. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters)
Social-media app has come under scrutiny over China-based parent ByteDance
More than a third of teens are on social media almost constantly, a Pew Research poll finds
Influencers are supposed to disclose their ads, but nothing happens when they don’t.
Google and Apple should remove the app from its stores over the alleged feeding of data to China, an FCC commissioner has said