Last week, a group of American investors finalized a deal with TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to take over the app's US operations. The move is the long-awaited result of President ...

It’s not what we can or cannot say that matters – rather, it’s whether what we say can get any visibility at all under the US-specific algorithm, says academic Paolo Gerbaudo ...

The shooting of Alex Pretti and Renee Macklin Good by federal agents in Minneapolis have enraged many people across the ...

Editorial: The Trump administration’s initial reaction to the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis shows how the incentives created by social media are distorting truth and undermining ...

Though TikTok said the platform will maintain a “global TikTok experience,” content creators and users of the app have shared ...

The reason to be paranoid about platform censorship is always the same—whether it’s happening or not, it could happen. When ...

Now that the United States has control of the social media sensation TikTok, many users are deleting their accounts in ...

TikTok Users Say They're Being Censored After New Owners Were Announced. The Company Says It's a Tech Issue.

A U.S. data center power outage caused view and upload glitches as users allege censorship after new ownership and app ...

After TikTok in the U.S. went under new ownership in January 2026, a rumor spread that its new terms of service said the ...

Yet while the newly formed TikTok USDS (U.S. Data Security) Joint Venture LLC now has the license to the platform, ByteDance appears to still own the underlying technology. The Chinese Communist Party ...

TikTok is officially under new ownership in the US, and that could spell big changes for the video-sharing app. On January ...