Ohio State player, TikTok star dismissed before national championship game against Notre Dame
Ohio State looked dominant throughout the first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff. The Buckeyes defeated the top-seeded Oregon Ducks in the quarterfinals before defeating the Texas Longhorns in the semifinals to advance to Monday's championship game. But one member of the Buckeyes who has made a name for himself primarily through his social media presence will […]
Americans on TikTok Say ‘Goodbye’ to Their ‘Personal Chinese Spy’ in Viral Videos
US TikTok users call out their “personal Chinese spies” in a viral video going viral on Chinese social media platforms that mocks the app's potential ban in the US this Sunday. “Goodbye” he says. “I want to talk directly to the Chinese spies who have been monitoring me,” one American TikTok user said in a […]
Trump will ‘find a way’ to preserve TikTok, Waltz says
President-elect Trump will take steps to preserve TikTok after taking office, the incoming national security adviser announced Wednesday, with the app's owners facing a ban if they don't sell it in the United States. The deadline to do so is approaching. Mike Walz told Fox News that President Trump will take action to maintain access […]
Why Beijing Wants Americans to Keep Using TikTok
Everyone talking about the possible ban of social media app TikTok has strong opinions. TikTok influencers and users, mostly teenagers and young adults, don't want their access to the popular platform to be interrupted or restricted. TikTok's strongest critics, most of them conservative, are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a federal law that […]
TikTok tells US employees their jobs are ‘secure’ even if app is banned: internal memo
TikTok plans to continue paying its U.S. employees even if the Supreme Court doesn't overturn laws forcing or banning the short video app's sale in the U.S., company executives said Tuesday. This was said in an internal memo seen by Reuters. This hugely popular platform is owned by China-based ByteDance, which has 7,000 employees in […]
What to know about RedNote, a TikTok alternative
TikTok users are turning to new platforms after the app was ordered to be shut down nationwide on Sunday. Chinese short-form video platform RedNote is gaining ground as users look for alternatives to China's ByteDance-owned social media company. The RedNote app, called “Xiaohongshu” (meaning “little red book”) in Chinese, is also owned by a Chinese […]
Ohio State kicks TikTok star Caden Davis off team before national championship game
Social media star and Ohio State loser Caden Davis has been waived by the Buckeyes, reports say. Report from the university newspaper “The Lantern”. Davis, a defensive lineman who posted behind-the-scenes videos of his time as an Ohio State football player and amassed hundreds of thousands of followers on TikTok, X and Instagram, never snapped […]
TikTok users download another Chinese app to mock spying concerns before ban: ‘We’re here to spite our government’
Enraged by TikTok's ban, young people rushed to download other Chinese apps. mock Congress tried to protect them from communist spies. Congress has passed a bill requiring popular social media apps to be divested from companies with close ties to the communist Chinese government or face bans in the United States over privacy concerns. . […]
American ‘TikTok refugees’ flock to Chinese-owned RedNote to protest ban
HONG KONG — As the threat of a TikTok ban looms, American TikTok users are flocking to Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, which is the most downloaded app in the United States. Some people who call themselves “TikTok refugees” are protesting the ban and claiming that Chinese apps are being chosen as an alternative to […]
China-owned TikTok alternative RedNote’s surge in US sparks alarm over ‘serious’ security risks
Ahead of the looming ban on TikTok, the unusual rise in popularity of China-based social media app RedNote in the United States has sparked alarm among policy experts, with the popular It warns that it poses even greater security risks than video-sharing apps. More than 700,000 U.S. users (some calling themselves “TikTok refugees”) have joined […]