In a scathing editorial, the CCP reiterated that it will not let TikTok’s parent company sell its signature algorithm. What would a TikTok without that algorithm be?

For months, Trump has said negotiations for the sale of TikTok have been ongoing with China, as the platform is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance. Since the platform went dark for less than 24 hours in ...

Congress must increase pressure on President Donald Trump to sell TikTok. The security threats posed by the Chinese app are ...

Former VP Mike Pence tells “The Hill” on NewsNation Putin “doesn’t want peace” A policy group founded by former Vice ...

It is also worth remembering that the law does not shutter TikTok; it can continue operating if ByteDance sells it. As entertaining and informative as TikTok can be, its value does not depend on its ...

For many of America’s 170 million TikTok users, US President Donald Trump’s move to delay a legal ban of the popular social media platform was cause for celebration. But in China, where TikTok ...

China has long implemented a so-called “Great Firewall” that bans US-owned social media apps like Facebook, Instagram and X. TikTok itself is unavailable in China.

For users outside China, they created TikTok in 2017. To ensure its place in global markets, ByteDance didn't simply take the Douyin app and reconfigure it for the 40 languages it now supports.

TikTok's global head of trust and safety told Insider no content is moderated in China. It follows a company pledge after reports that China-based moderators were suppressing videos.

Like TikTok, it's a short-form video app. Launched in 2016, Douyin was the major money spinner for ByteDance years before TikTok, raking in revenue through in-app tipping and livestreaming.

China's TikTok has been hit by a perfect storm this week—the platform has been under fire before, but not like this, this time it's different.