Senator says Trump cannot ignore law requiring ByteDance to divest TikTok by next yearSenator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat who is holding a hearing on Chinese hacking incidents, cited the law passed by Congress in April as ...
20 Nov, 2024, 10.35 AM IST
Does TikTok pose a threat to US security? This is what we knowThe US bill if approved by the Senate, would force TikTok owner ByteDance to sell the app to a buyer that is not controlled by a foreign ad...
23 Apr, 2024, 10.06 AM IST
US Senate hearing: Meta, TikTok, X CEOs grilled by senators about child sexual exploitationThe hearing marks the latest effort by lawmakers to address the concerns of parents and mental health experts that social media companies p...
31 Jan, 2024, 11.57 PM IST
CEOs of TikTok, Meta, X to testify at US Senate hearing in JanuarySenator Dick Durbin, the panel's Democratic chairman and the ranking Republican Lindsey Graham said Discord and X had initially balked at p...
30 Nov, 2023, 08.43 AM IST
Child Sexual Exploitation: This is why US Senate panel issued subpoenas to Discord, Snap and XA Senate panel in US has issued subpoenas to major tech companies after their 'repeated refusals' by the giants to cooperate with its inves...
21 Nov, 2023, 04.32 PM IST
US senators examine TikTok hiring of ByteDance executivesSenators Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, and Republican Marsha Blackburn said in a letter on Tuesday to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew that the pe...
03 Oct, 2023, 10.35 PM IST
TikTok shakes up leadership amid questions about its futureThe leadership shake-up comes at a pivotal time for TikTok, as the app faces tremendous pressure over its ownership by Chinese company Byte...
23 Jun, 2023, 10.03 AM IST
Dismissed for flagging illegal activity, says former ByteDance executiveThe dispute comes at a time when ByteDance-owned app TikTok faces growing calls for a nationwide ban from some US lawmakers regarding conce...
13 May, 2023, 01.02 PM IST
US House Republicans raise 'deep concern' on TikTok content decisionsIn March, US lawmakers questioned TikTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew during a Congressional hearing in what was a rare public appearance f...
11 May, 2023, 10.17 PM IST
US House speaker says lawmakers to move forward with TikTok billIn the United States, there are growing calls to ban TikTok, owned by China-based company ByteDance, or to pass bipartisan legislation to g...
26 Mar, 2023, 08.35 PM IST
TikTok ban had 'side benefit' of getting his kids off platform: Canada PM Justin TrudeauTrudeau, 51, has three children, two of whom are teenagers. His government announced its ban last month, saying the platform has an "unacce...
25 Mar, 2023, 09.09 PM IST
China denies pressuring companies like TikTok to spy for ChinaAt a news conference, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, Mao Ning, said China "has never and will not" ask companies or individuals t...
25 Mar, 2023, 10.08 AM IST
TikTok CEO grilled on connection with China, calls India's ban 'hypothetical' and theoreticalDuring a four-hour long hearing, Chew time and again stressed that the TikTok app, which is owned by the Chinese technology company Bytedan...
24 Mar, 2023, 05.47 PM IST
TikTok CEO-US Congressional hearing: five things to knowThe US lawmakers were unconvinced with most of what CEO Shou Zi Chew said as they questioned him on data security and user safety while he ...
24 Mar, 2023, 04.04 PM IST
TikTok attacked for China ties as US lawmakers push for banCEO Shou Zi Chew's testimony before Congress did little to assuage US worries over TikTok's China-based parent company ByteDance and added ...
24 Mar, 2023, 06.51 AM IST
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew to face tough questions amid support for US banTikTok, which has more than 150 million Americans users, has faced sharp accusations that its US user data would be shared with the Chinese...
23 Mar, 2023, 06.11 PM IST
TikTok CEO blasts Zuckerberg attacks ‘disguised as patriotism’Zuckerberg’s testimony, published in advance, focused on the broader danger of allowing tech firms from the world’s No. 2 economy to domina...
30 Jul, 2020, 09.39 AM IST