First, TikTok scoops up data on its 170 million monthly users in the U.S., which could potentially be used to track federal employees or to conduct blackmail or corporate espionage.

A forced sale of TikTok, the social media app that U.S. intelligence officials have labeled a national security risk, could happen before the 2024 presidential election in November, the House ...

At least 52 political ads have found a platform on TikTok despite the social media company’s decision to ban paid political messaging nearly five years ago.. Several of the videos individually ...

TikTok has begun to require “mandatory verification” for political accounts based in the United States and will be prohibiting all political fundraising on its short-video platform, the ...

Our study is based on a massive dataset of over 16 million TikTok videos from more than 160,000 public accounts between 2019 and 2023. We saw a spike of political TikTok videos during the 2020 U.S ...

This article was originally published on ARPU. View the original post here. For the 170 million Americans who use TikTok, the saga over the app's future feels like a story on loop. President ...

Trump extends TikTok sale deadline in the US yet again, leaving the whole situation feeling 'less like a ticking clock and more like a looped ringtone… political Groundhog Day' News By Rich ...

There must be "significant progress" by the app's Chinese owner toward a sale of TikTok's U.S. business, with binding legal agreements in place to enable execution of the deal during the extension.

Trump has said that the deadline on a TikTok deal could be extended further if needed. He previously proposed terms in which the U.S. would have a 50% stake in a joint venture.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is “probably” going to extend the TikTok sale deadline. An executive order signed by Trump gave the social media’s Chinese parent company ...

One of the key factors behind successful political engagement on TikTok is authenticity. The platform thrives on genuine, relatable content. Politicians who can showcase a more human side tend to ...