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
Will US ban TikTok in January? That question is headed to courtFor years, TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, have been under scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers and intelligence officials for th...
16 Sep, 2024, 10.18 AM IST
TikTok faces crucial court hearing that could decide fate in USThe US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia will hold oral arguments on the legal challenge, putting the fate of Chinese-owned Tik...
13 Sep, 2024, 04.20 PM IST
US judge blocks Montana from banning TikTok use in stateUS District Judge Donald Molloy issued a preliminary injunction to block the ban on the Chinese-owned app, saying the state ban "oversteps ...
01 Dec, 2023, 08.01 AM 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
Utah sues TikTok over impact of app on childrenThe state of Utah has filed a lawsuit against TikTok, accusing the Chinese-owned app of intentionally keeping young users on the platform f...
11 Oct, 2023, 09.11 AM IST
US Commerce head Gina Raimondo backs legislation to address TikTok threatsGina Raimondo's comments come as concerns at a time when Chinese-owned TikTok have sparked new efforts in the US Congress to boost powers t...
05 Oct, 2023, 06.28 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
Members of Congress on TikTok defend app's reach to votersCriticism of TikTok reached a new level last week as CEO Shou Zi Chew testified for more than six hours at a contentious hearing in the Hou...
03 Apr, 2023, 04.14 PM IST
In hundreds of TikTok videos, its users defend the appOther TikTok users shared video montages of the app's chief executive, Shou Chew, to the tune of pop songs and applied the "fancam" treatme...
30 Mar, 2023, 04.45 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
Gap grows between TikTok users, lawmakers on potential banThe disconnect illustrates the uphill battle that lawmakers from both sides of the aisle face in trying to convince the public that China c...
26 Mar, 2023, 07.05 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
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 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 tells US lawmakers it does not give information to China's governmentSenators at the hearing also voiced concerns that TikTok, owned by Beijing-based internet technology company ByteDance, and rivals YouTube,...
27 Oct, 2021, 10.51 AM IST