The process is being run in a nakedly political way. Although both TikTok and its would-be acquirers are private companies, the White House is organising the sale.

TikTok faces its most serious threat yet to its U.S. existence with the House passage of a bill that would ban it from operating in America or force a sale.

TikTok, the only one of the three that prohibits political advertising altogether, did not. Global Witness’s researchers submitted the same eight ads to each platform, according to the report.

Two years after an abortive sale, TikTok is, once again, facing the specter of being banned completely in the United States, its biggest market, if its Chinese owners don’t sell their stake in ...

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 ...

Just weeks before the U.S. presidential election, TikTok approved advertisements that contained election disinformation even though it has a ban on political ads, according to a report published ...

ByteDance, the video-sharing app’s Chinese parent company, is in talks with officials over possible arrangements that would avert a full sale of TikTok’s U.S. operations, according to people ...

In the years since TikTok was born as a lip-syncing app for Chinese teens, it has reshaped the media landscape — forcing U.S. tech giants to reckon with a foreign rival.

How TikTok got political Published: June 2, 2020 8:46am EDT. Penny CS Andrews, University of Sheffield. Author. Penny CS Andrews PhD Researcher in information, media and communication, ...

If TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, refuses to divest its stakes in the company, the United States will ban the app nationwide. The signing started the clock, giving TikTok 270 days to find a ...

But it called out TikTok for approving four of the eight ads submitted for review that contained falsehoods about the election. That’s despite the platform’s ban on all political ads in place ...

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 ...