Who is Craig Long? MAGA influencer arrested in human trafficking sting posed with Donald Trump at UFC eventMAGA influencer and fitness entrepreneur Craig Long was arrested in a massive human trafficking and prostitution sting operation in Polk Co...
05 May, 2026, 11.00 AM IST
No 'meaningful' shift from social media sites after Australia teen banDespite Australia’s recent legislation prohibiting social media access for those under 16, user habits remain largely unchanged, as indicat...
30 Apr, 2026, 11.29 AM IST
US sues TikTok over 'massive-scale' privacy violations of kids under 13The U.S. Justice Department has sued TikTok and ByteDance, alleging failure to protect children's privacy in violation of the Children's On...
03 Aug, 2024, 07.34 AM IST
US sues TikTok over 'massive-scale' privacy violations of kids under 13The government said TikTok violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act that requires services aimed at children to obtain parenta...
03 Aug, 2024, 12.18 AM IST
Chuck Schumer says US Senate can make progress on TikTok billThe Senate is returning to work next week after a two-week recess. The U.S. House of Representatives voted 352-65 on March 13 to give TikTo...
05 Apr, 2024, 11.35 PM IST
Biden says he would sign TikTok crackdown, Trump raises concernsPresident Biden plans to sign ByteDance divestiture bill for TikTok. Republican Donald Trump, expressed objections to banning TikTok
09 Mar, 2024, 11.03 AM IST
Donald Trump raises concerns about US ban on TikTokThe former Republican president seeking a return to the White House wrote late Thursday on social media site Truth Social "if you get rid o...
08 Mar, 2024, 10.59 PM IST
US House to vote next week on TikTok crackdown billThe U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on legislation that would ban TikTok in the U.S. unless China's ByteDance divests from the...
08 Mar, 2024, 10.48 AM IST
New push in Congress to ban TikTok or force Chinese divestiture gains steamCommittee approval would set up a vote by U.S. House of Representatives that represents the first significant momentum for a U.S. crackdown...
07 Mar, 2024, 04.44 PM IST
TikTok shuts shopping feature in Indonesia following banTikTok, a hugely popular short-form video platform, shut down its Shop apparatus in Indonesia on Wednesday after the country banned commerc...
05 Oct, 2023, 11.59 PM IST
U.S. Senate passes bill to bar federal employees from using TikTok on government-owned devicesThe bill must still be approved by the U.S. House of Representatives before going to President Joe Biden for approval. The House of Represe...
15 Dec, 2022, 08.29 AM IST
How a temporary US ban could destroy TikTokWhile ByteDance is still in talks with U.S. investors, the White House and the Chinese government over how to structure the deal, the Trump...
28 Sep, 2020, 11.40 PM IST
China's ByteDance seeks $60 billion TikTok valuation as Oracle and Walmart prepare to buy inOracle will take a 12.5% stake in TikTok Global and store all its U.S. user data on its cloud to comply with U.S. national security require...
20 Sep, 2020, 02.44 PM IST
YouTube goes the TikTok way, starts testing short video-sharing app 'YouTube Shorts' in IndiaTikTok's brand of brief, quirky videos made on users' cellphones has grown hugely popular.
15 Sep, 2020, 10.26 AM IST
ByteDance in talks with US to avoid selling TikTok: ReportTikTok -- which has been downloaded 175 million times in the US and more than a billion times around the world -- has filed a lawsuit chall...
10 Sep, 2020, 10.42 AM IST
TikTok sues over ban ordered by Donald TrumpTikTok argued in the lawsuit that Trump's order was a misuse of International Emergency Economic Powers Act because the platform -- on whic...
24 Aug, 2020, 10.12 PM IST
ByteDance investors seek to use stakes to finance TikTok bid - SourcesByteDance has been in talks to divest TikTok's North America, Australia and New Zealand operations to potential acquirers, including Micros...
24 Aug, 2020, 02.42 PM IST