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

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 ...

While TikTok is clearly very keen for its platform to be seen as ‘just a bit of harmless fun’, it can’t avoid being a political ‘hot potato’ topic in and of itself.

Major political figures, such as US presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, continue to use TikTok despite . These bans are currently being , but are due to commence in January 2025.

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 ...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Monday that he expects to see TikTok sold under President-elect Trump, as the incoming president has vowed to protect the app. “Well, the statute allowed for a 90… ...

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 ...

TikTok has rejected a report suggesting Chinese officials might allow the sale of its US operations to Elon Musk – calling it “pure fiction”. The response comes amid growing tensions between ...

TikTok banned paid political ads on its platform in 2019, but according to Reuters, content creators became a “loophole” that campaign strategists could exploit to spread messaging on the ...