TikTok has announced that it will cease operations in the U.S. on Sunday, unless the Biden administration provides assurances to tech giants.
The United States Supreme Court on Friday ruled against TikTok's bid to avoid a ban that could shut the app down in just two days and impact millions of users who rely on the platform for entertainment,
Parents in Maryland said a school board’s refusal to notify them and to excuse their children from discussions of the storybooks violated the First Amendment.
The Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it’s sold by its China-based parent company.
Experts have indicated that common workarounds, such as VPNs, may not be effective due to the app's ability to detect user locations through geolocation data.
TikTok and its Chinese parent company are facing off against the Justice Department Friday in a hearing before the Supreme Court that will help determine the fate of the popular social media app.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against TikTok on Friday in its challenge to a federal law that would have required the popular short-video app to be sold by its Chinese parent company ByteDance or banned in the United States on Jan.
Thousands of American users set up accounts on the increasingly popular app Xiaohongshu just days before U.S. law is set to go into into effect
The Supreme Court upheld a US law that bans TikTok on Jan. 19 unless it is sold to an owner not controlled by a foreign adversary, a ruling that creates new uncertainty for a social-media app used by 170 million Americans.
"In my opinion, TikTok should not be banned in the USA, even though such a ban may benefit the X platform,” Elon Musk wrote on X in April. "Doing so would be contrary to freedom of speech and expression. It is not what America stands for." To note, a TikTok spokesperson told the BBC that the Bloomberg report was "pure fiction."
What happens on your smartphone once a US law banning the social media app TikTok takes effect on Sunday? It will depend on the actions of TikTok parent ByteDance, President Joe Biden, President-elect Donald Trump,
The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday imposed sanctions on alleged hacker Yin Kecheng and cybersecurity company Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology Co., accusing both of being involved in a series of hacks against American telecom companies.