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Bipartisan senators push back as key Dem signals doom for TikTok bill

Senators on both sides of the aisle poured cold water on Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) in hopes that a House-passed bill requiring social media app TikTok to leave China would reach the Senate floor. is repulsed. “I’m not surprised at all about this.” exactly what i predicted Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) was responding to recent […]

China Finds Big Money in TikTok Psyop as ByteDance Profits Soar 60%

ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, the wildly popular psy-op aimed at Western teenagers, achieved a massive 60% profit increase in 2023, outpacing Chinese competitors such as gaming giant Tencent. bloomberg report ByteDance’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) soared to more than $40 billion in 2023, an impressive 60 percent increase […]

TikTok Notes app is ‘coming soon’ to rival Instagram with photo, text posts

TikTok Notes, the Beijing-born social media company’s photo and text sharing platform, appears to be the latest swipe on Instagram. The app seems very similar to Instagram’s platform and even has the same name as one of Instagram’s features. Some TikTok users say that when they share a photo post, they receive a pop-up notifying […]

TikTok Set to Launch Instagram Competitor

TikTok, the Chinese social media platform hugely popular with U.S. teens, has launched a new website that could rival Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram, according to a recent notification sent to users. The company is said to be preparing for the release of a photo sharing app. The Verge report In a move that could shake up […]

McConnell: TikTok threatens security ‘on US soil’

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) on Monday backed an effort to force Chinese company ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban on the popular app in the United States, saying It warned that ownership poses a serious national security threat. “America’s greatest strategic rival is threatening our safety right here on American soil… […]

McConnell calls on Congress to give House-passed TikTok bill ‘urgent attention’

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) expressed his support on Monday for a House-passed bill to push the Chinese owners of TikTok to divest or face being banned in the United States, although the path forward is still unclear in the upper chamber.  “This is a matter that deserves Congress’s urgent attention. And I’ll support […]