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Donald Trump–TikTok controversy. In 2020, the United States government announced that it was considering banning the Chinese social media platform TikTok upon a request from then- president Donald Trump, who viewed the app as a national security threat. The result was that TikTok owner ByteDance —which initially planned on selling a small ...
On March 17, 2023, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officially launched an investigation of TikTok, including allegations that the company spied on American journalists. [ 9] On January 25, 2023, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley introduced a bill to ban the platform nationwide.
In May 2024, Manila 6th District Rep. Bienvenido Abante filed House Bill 10489 proposing the ban of TikTok and other "foreign adversary-controlled" social platforms. [47] The Department of Information and Communications Technology however has preferred regulation and monitoring over outright ban of TikTok and other similar apps. [48]
TikTok has committed to “permanently withdraw” a rewards program from the E.U. after the bloc raised concerns about the feature’s potential "addictive effect."
TikTok, whose mainland Chinese counterpart is Douyin, [ a][ 3] is a short-form video hosting service owned by Chinese internet company ByteDance. It hosts user-submitted videos, which can range in duration from three seconds to 60 minutes. [ 4] It can be accessed with a smartphone app .
The average 401 (k) savings rate — meaning the percentage of someone’s salary that they’re putting into their 401 (k) — hit a record high of 14.2% in the first quarter of 2024, according ...
Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy says he is lucky to be alive today after having to be rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard just outside of Boston.On Monday, the 47-year-old Massachusetts native and ...
A component of Vietnam's strategy to control the Internet consists of the arrest of bloggers, netizens and journalists. [22] [23] The goal of these arrests is to prevent dissidents from pursuing their activities, and to persuade others to practice self-censorship. Vietnam is the world's second largest prison for netizens after China. [24]