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TikTok will go dark in the U.S unless China agrees to a deal that giving U.S. owners majority control over the video app, ...

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 ...

In January, TikTok took itself offline for about 14 hours — and app stores removed access to the platform in the United States — after the law’s initial sale-or-ban deadline passed with no deal.

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 ...

Trump in announcing the extended deadline for a TikTok sale brought up the tariffs and said his administration would continue working with China on a deal. TikTok's Chinese parent company ...

TikTok announced a ban on political advertising all the way back in 2019. So you’d be forgiven for thinking the ugly problem of democracy-denting political disinformation doesn’t apply inside ...

TikTok failed to catch 90 percent of ads featuring false and misleading messages about elections, while YouTube and Facebook identified and blocked most of them, according to an experiment run by ...

To avoid a ban, ByteDance would have to arrange a sale that guaranteed TikTok was not under the control of a foreign adversary — a group that includes China — within six months.

TikTok’s political fundraising ban, meanwhile, will kick in over the coming weeks and is part of a wider effort to clamp down on politicians’ ability to monetize the platform. Under the coming ...