Federal Appeals Court Upholds TikTok Ban Legislation
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a law requiring TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell the app popular with American children and teens or face a ban in the United States. By law, ByteDance has until January to decide whether to sell or ban the TikTok app, so this ruling brings the possibility […]
China Hasn’t Used TikTok to Steal Data, Influence Americans ‘To Date’
On Friday's broadcast of Bloomberg's “Balance of Power,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, said that “so far” China has “not used TikTok for any purpose.” TikTok is a “potential danger'' because it has not been implemented.'' Either by stealing information about Americans or by trying to influence Americans. ” […]
Trump ‘Wants to Save TikTok’, But Wants to Protect Data
On Friday's broadcast of Fox Business Network's “Kudlow,” Rep. Mike Walz (R-Florida), President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for national security adviser, said that President-elect Trump is ” I'm a fan.” He wants to save TikTok. We need to give Americans access to that app, but we also need to protect our data. And we must protect […]
ACLU spurns 'flawed and dangerous' ruling on TikTok ban
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) condemned Friday's “flawed and dangerous” federal appeals court ruling upholding a law banning social media platform TikTok. “This ruling sets a flawed and dangerous precedent and gives the government far too much power to silence Americans’ speech online,” said Patrick Toomey, deputy director of the ACLU’s National Security Project. […]
TikTok sale-or-ban law upheld by federal appeals court
A law requiring TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell its app by January 19 or face a total ban in the United States was upheld by a U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday and will be considered by the Supreme Court in the coming weeks. A showdown is scheduled. A three-judge Washington panel says […]
Frank McCourt’s TikTok bid has $20B in ‘informal commitments’: report
Billionaire Frank McCourt reportedly secured $20 billion in pledges from investors for a potential Chinese-owned acquisition of TikTok, but a federal appeals court on Friday will force him to sell the app. The effort could gain momentum after Congress supported legislation. McCourt's Project Liberty, an Internet-focused company that includes the for-profit sector and a nonprofit […]
Judges Rule Against TikTok Citing ‘Grave Threat To National Security’
A federal appeals court ruled Friday to uphold a law that would force TikTok's Chinese parent company to sell its platform or have it banned in the United States. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit dominated The law forcing ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, to sell TikTok to a […]
TikTok video leads to capture of fugitive in Mexico
Police in St. Petersburg, Florida, say a man who shot his estranged girlfriend to death in front of their two children at a cemetery in 2021 is in custody in Mexico after a TikTok video alerted someone to his whereabouts. announced that it had been done. St. Petersburg Police Chief Anthony Hollaway announced that Benjamin […]
Tony Finau’s wife reacts to LIV Golf rumors with new TikTok video
Tony Finau and his wife Alaina aren't ignoring the LIV Golf conversation. Rumors that Finau could defect to the Saudi-backed league that close friend Jon Rahm signed last year after the six-time PGA Tour winner withdrew from this week's Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. is swirling. Reportedly worth $350 million.. On Monday, Alena uploaded […]
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatens to defund children’s hospital over doctor’s viral TikTok
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott last week threatened to revoke government funding from a children's hospital after a Houston doctor advised patients on TikTok to skip citizenship questions on medical forms. In early August, Mr. Abbott issued an executive order requiring hospitals that accept Medicaid and children's health insurance plans to ask patients, “Are you a […]