President-elect Donald Trump’s legal team asked the Supreme Court to halt a law requiring TikTok to be sold to an American company or shut down by January 19, the day before his inauguration. In a petition filed on Friday, the legal team argued that the incoming president should have the opportunity to “resolve the issues … Read more
US president-elect Donald Trump’s repeated support for TikTok has sparked speculation about potential solutions to prevent the app’s impending ban in the United States, though the path forward remains unclear. “We got to keep this sucker around for a little while,” Trump told supporters on Sunday, just days after meeting TikTok CEO Chew Shou Zi … Read more
One afternoon in late January, a crowd gathered with a purpose outside the Hotel del Coronado. The conservative evangelical Awaken Church was holding its first service in the city as part of a long effort to establish a church there, and some residents were protesting. “No place for hate,” they chanted, waving Pride flags and … Read more
Both the company, ByteDance, and TikTok have sued on First Amendment grounds. The First Amendment to the US Constitution protects the freedom of religion, speech, the press, assembly and the right to petition. Participants hold signs in support of TikTok outside the US Capitol building in 2024 in Washington. Photo: Getty Images While the platform … Read more
TikTok owner ByteDance has again denied that it considered divesting the US operations of its popular short video platform, in response to a report by The Washington Post on Wednesday that such a plan existed in 2022. In a brief statement on Thursday, Beijing-based ByteDance called on Chinese social media not to spread such misinformation … Read more
Colorado campaign ads with audio, video and other content generated using artificial intelligence will need to feature prominent disclosures under a bill signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis over the weekend. The law, passed as House Bill 1147, likens “deepfakes,” or the use of AI to create false depictions of people doing or saying things, … Read more
A group of TikTok creators said on Tuesday that they have filed suit in federal court seeking to block a law signed by US President Joe Biden that would force the divestiture of the short video app used by 170 million Americans or ban it, saying it has had “a profound effect on American life”. … Read more
The US Justice Department and TikTok on Friday asked a US appeal court to set a fast-track schedule to consider the legal challenges to a new law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest TikTok’s US assets by January 19 or face a ban. TikTok, ByteDance and a group of TikTok content creators joined with the Justice … Read more
Billionaire businessman and real estate mogul Frank McCourt said he is putting together a consortium to purchase TikTok’s US business, adding to the number of investors hoping to benefit from a new federal law that requires TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell the popular platform or face a ban. The announcement, made on Wednesday, said … Read more
On April 24th, after years of talks about a TikTok ban, President Joe Biden committed to remaking the platform’s existence in the United States. A foreign-aid package that he signed into law, and that passed in the House and the Senate with strong majorities, included funding for Ukraine, Israel, and Gaza, plus a bill that … Read more
