TikTok CEO grilled on Capitol Hill 03:05. Shou Zi Chew, the CEO of TikTok, faced a panel of federal lawmakers Thursday and sought to calm their concerns about the social media platform due to its ...

After TikTok CEO Shou Chew testified for more than five hours on Thursday before a Congressional committee, one thing was clear: US lawmakers remain convinced that TikTok is an urgent threat to ...

TikTok, for its part, argues its alleged ownership by a Chinese company is a myth. In a 2023 posting on its website, the video platform says that ByteDance is 60% owned by global institutional ...

TikTok users may be experiencing some déjà vu this week. The popular short-form video app’s future is once again uncertain as a potential ban in the United States could be just days away.

TikTok, through its Beijing-based parent company ByteDance, has long denied it is a surveillance tool for the CCP, but doubts abound. Trump, of course, wasn’t always a TikTok lover.

Under federal legislation that put the TikTok ban in place, the president can implement a 90-day extension on the deadline to sell. But Trump didn’t take this route in January or April.

“TikTok has been a success because Vine was a success. The model was already proven. Why Twitter shut down Vine, who knows. But there were massive stars on the app like Shawn Mendez.

In communications newly revealed, TikTok executives discuss being aware of the harms caused by their app. TikTok officials were warned of the app’s dangers to minors.

TikTok is safe in the U.S., at least for now. The fate of the app once again hung in the balance Friday in a déjà vu moment for fans of the social media platform. After briefly going dark ...