The Justice Department late on Wednesday asked a US appeal court to reject an emergency bid by TikTok to temporarily block a law that would require its Chinese parent company ByteDance to divest the short-video app by January 19 or face a ban. TikTok and ByteDance on Monday filed the emergency motion with the US … Read more
TikTok, the Chinese-owned short-video app fighting a ban in the US, is determined to earn trust in every market where it operates, CEO Chew Shou Zi said at a summit in Saudi Arabia’s capital city. As the social media industry faces more questions, “earning trust locally … is going to be a big challenge for … Read more
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he supports TikTok even as a potential ban looms if Chinese parent company ByteDance fails to divest the short video app’s US assets. “I’m for TikTok because you need competition. If you don’t have TikTok, you have Facebook and Instagram,” Trump told Bloomberg BusinessWeek in an interview posted Tuesday. … Read more
TikTok and parent firm ByteDance depicted the security concerns raised by American lawmakers and government officials about the short video platform as purely “speculative” and without evidence to validate accusations against the popular app. That description was made in a legal brief filed on Thursday by TikTok and ByteDance, which asserted that the basis of … 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
TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance said on Tuesday they filed suit in US 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 its use. The companies said they filed a lawsuit in … Read more
