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Nearly half of U.S. voters support banning the Chinese-owned TikTok video app, according to a new Wall Street Journal poll, but there are sharp divisions along partisan, age and even racial lines. Source link
“Your platform should be banned.” The statement from Cathy Rodgers, a Republican congresswoman, kicked off a five-hour evisceration of TikTok’s chief executive, Shou Zi Chew, by American lawmakers. Both Democratic and Republican members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce grilled Mr Chew about the potential threats of the hugely popular short-video app to […]
LONDON : A growing number of countries in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific have banned the popular video-sharing app TikTok from government devices as privacy and cybersecurity concerns increase. A handful have prohibited the app altogether. The company’s CEO faced a grilling Thursday from U.S. lawmakers. TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese technology company […]
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Chinese video-sharing app TikTok is once again facing backlash in two different continents due to security concerns. Within 24 hours, the UK and New Zealand banned TikTok on the phones of the parliamentarian. The ban brings the UK and New Zealand in line with the US, Canada, the European Union (EU), and also India – […]
The bill introduced Tuesday would give the president the ability to force the sale of foreign-owned technologies, applications, software or e-commerce platforms if they present a national security threat to US users. It doesn’t mention Beijing-based Bytedance Ltd.’s TikTok by name, but the video-sharing app, which has about 100 million users in the US, is […]
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Chinese video app TikTok has reportedly fired its entire Indian workforce. According to a report by the Economic Times, the ByteDance-owned application has given pink slips to 40 people this week after a call. The daily mentioned that a severance pay of nine months would be given to the employees. Citing a source, ET said […]
Bytedance-owned TikTok recently admitted to spying on journalists in the US to get to their sources. According to a report by Nikkei Asia, the country is now stepping up efforts to ban the use of TikTok. The report says that the US House of Representatives has approved a legislation last week that will bar the […]
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Islamabad: Pakistan has blocked short-video streaming platform TikTok due to the app’s failure to regulate content. This has been the fourth time the country has blocked the Chinese application. The Chinese application, owned by ByteDance, has also been banned in India due to security concerns. The application was blocked by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the […]
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One year after the Chinese short video platform TikTok was banned in India, homegrown Moj is leading the market. The platform, owned by Sharechat, had 47.78 million monthly active users (MAUs), followed by Times Internet’s MX TakaTak at 23.95 million, Dailyhunt’s Josh at 14 million, and InMobi’s Roposo at 5.51 million, according to MAU data […]
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