Recently, a U.S. district court slapped a sizable lawsuit on TikTok, the popular social media news app company. The company was charged for violating the privacy and personal data of its users. Its parent company is Beijing ByteDance Technology Co., although the software is not available in China. The video app has become a fashionable ...
According to a report by the United States research firm Sensor Tower on April 29, the social platform TikTok, known as the international version of the Chinese short video app Douyin, is a global hit and has been downloaded 2 billion times worldwide. In the first quarter of this year, TikTok generated the most downloads ...
In a matter of just a few years, TikTok has become one of the fastest-growing and most popular mobile apps in the world. However, its popularity has also made it a target of pedophiles, who often use the platform to get in touch with its younger users. Pedophile dangers on TikTok “TikTok is a social ...
Steve Huffman, the co-founder and CEO of Reddit, had some harsh words for the Chinese app TikTok during a recent conference of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors. He accused the app of being parasitic due to its invasive nature. The dangers of TikTok When discussing the feature innovations of TikTok, Huffman took a strong stand ...
Senator Marco Rubio has asked the U.S. administration to investigate the Chinese social media app TikTok after reports that the company is censoring content worldwide according to Beijing’s policies. Rubio has asked the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which is tasked with overseeing foreign acquisitions that might impact national security, to ...
Any business operating in China has to comply with the communist government’s stringent censorship policies. Home-grown TikTok is no exception. It censors any content that threatens the communist regime, which includes topics like democracy, Christianity, Tibet, and LGBT. Censoring content “The guidelines divide banned material into two categories: Some content is marked as a ...