The leaders of a bipartisan panel that is focused on China have sent a letter asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate whether TikTok has violated child protection laws in its efforts to stop the United States from banning the app. The letter, obtained by The Hill and first reported by NBC News, is … Read more
China has come up with its own text-to-video artificial-intelligence (AI) tool similar to OpenAI’s Sora, although the new model can only produce videos no longer than 16 seconds, compared with the US service’s 60 seconds. Vidu, the country’s best hope so far in catching up with Sora, was launched over the weekend by start-up Shengshu … Read more
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threatened to challenge a potential TikTok ban Friday, as efforts to block the video app in the U.S. came closer to reality earlier this week. “I’m going to file a lawsuit challenging the TikTok ban on Constitutional grounds,” Kennedy wrote on social media platform X. “Don’t be fooled … Read more
Washington — A law that could lead to a national ban of TikTok cleared the Senate Tuesday night in a bipartisan vote of 79-18, representing one of the most serious threats to the immensely popular social media app’s U.S. operations. Some lawmakers insist they don’t want to actually ban the platform used by roughly 170 million Americans, … Read more
The government cited privacy concerns and said that Chinese apps pose a threat to India’s sovereignty and security. TikTok wasn’t a one-off case. Today, India has banned over 500 Chinese apps to dateNikhil Pahwa, digital policy expert The move mostly drew widespread support in India, where protesters had been calling for a boycott of Chinese … Read more
TikTok users could soon find that the popular social media service is either under new ownership or, although it wouldn’t happen immediately, outright banned in the U.S. The Senate late Tuesday passed a broad legislative package that delivers $95 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies. The bill also includes a … Read more
While the House took separate votes on the four bills they are expected to be bundled together as one package to send to the Senate. The catch-all foreign policy bill containing the TikTok proposal also tackles China’s role in fentanyl and sanctions evasion and restricts data brokers from sending sensitive American data to foreign adversaries. … Read more
The Chinese parent of TikTok has kept a safe distance from the troubles facing its short video app in the US, leaving the response to the local team and Singaporean CEO Chew Shou Zi as they face a possible legal battle against a forced sale or a ban, according to people briefed on the matter. … Read more
While employees have started to receive their bonuses for the past year based on their performance review, those who were rated “M” or higher will be rewarded extra payment of between 5 per cent to 15 per cent of their original bonus, according to Hua Wei, head of human resources at ByteDance, in an internal … Read more
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said in a Wednesday interview that users would benefit from the controversial bill to force TikTok’s Chinese-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the popular app or face a ban in the United States. Following a classified intelligence briefing for senators on TikTok, Cruz made the case that blocking the Chinese Communist … Read more
