Montana has become the first U.S. state to ban popular video-sharing app TikTok, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance. Here’s what you need to know about the new law signed by Gov. Greg Gianforte on Wednesday.
Even TikTok users who do not have a disability say they have learned about the experience of living with a disability from the app.
Controversial social media app TikTok announced Friday that it would begin removing "climate change misinformation" from its platform.
The app's massive popularity has raised national security concerns, but skeptics say banning it would do little to keep Americans' private data out of China's hands.
The CEO of TikTok came in for a bipartisan bashing during a congressional hearing Thursday, as both Republicans and Democrats denounced the company as an arm of the communist Chinese government.
Flanked by TikTok influencers, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., used a Wednesday afternoon news conference outside the U.S. Capitol to launch a defense of the popular social media platform, whose ownership by a Chinese company could result in a sweeping and unprecedented ban in the United States.
Amid an increasingly contested debate over whether to ban TikTok, a group of bipartisan senators proposed on Tuesday to create a process by which the U.S. government can decide whether to stop the Chinese social media app from operating in this country.
The social media app TikTok is facing bans across the United States because of the app's strong ties with its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, and the Chinese Communist Party. But experts say that prohibiting its use is focusing on the wrong problem.
A handful of Republicans on Capitol Hill and in state capitals around the country have led the charge in pushing for government bans of the social media app TikTok because of its ties to the Chinese government, but Democrats this week have begun to jump on board as well.
Russia’s invasion isn’t the first war to take place during the era of social media, but perhaps no other conflict has ever seen the online and real worlds so intensely intertwined.
“I love my job, and being able to work on things that are this important … is an incredible opportunity,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told Yahoo News.
In a wide-ranging interview hosted live on TikTok, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told Yahoo News she agreed with Dr. Anthony Fauci’s assessment that gun violence in the United States is a “public health issue.”
In a potentially decisive Georgia Senate runoff, Democrats and Republicans are hoping to connect with young voters, a group that turned out in record numbers in November. Candidate Jon Ossoff is looking to reach young voters where they already are: online.
TikTok's ties to China have been a persistent source of security concerns. Should the U.S. ban the popular social media app?
In recent weeks, U.S. government officials and members of Congress have placed TikTok in their crosshairs, warning that personal data collected by the social media giant could be secretly sent back to its Chinese parent company, ByteDance.
“Politically, this is an unambiguous win for Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans, who were expected to get nothing.”
“It reminds voters why they liked Biden in the first place and might be inclined to vote for him in November 2024.”
“In political terms, maybe nobody ‘won’ because the whole thing was just futile, stupid, and dangerous.”
“The second that Joe Biden agreed to negotiate with House Republicans on the debt ceiling, the results were going to be bad.”
“Whether the deal is good or bad is irrelevant. It’s the only deal. The alternative is chaos.”