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TikTok began working on Project Texas after 2020 to address data concerns from the US government. [115] From 2019 to 2024, TikTok and ByteDance combined spent $27 million on lobbying in the United States, including their hire of SKDK, a public affairs firm, in 2023 according to Politico.
Why could TikTok be banned in the US? Many government officials have seen TikTok as a national security threat for several years − worried that ByteDance, which is based in Beijing, has access ...
TikTok, along with 58 other Chinese-created apps, [23] was banned completely in India by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on 29 June 2020, with a statement saying they were "prejudicial to the sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state, and public order". [24]
TikTok will be banned in the United States on Jan. 19, 2025, after a federal appeals court rejected its bid to overturn the ban that President Biden signed in April. The law states that if TikTok ...
After amassing more than 170 million users in the country in less than seven years, TikTok is now facing an outright ban in the US. On 19 January, just one day before Donald Trump is set to be ...
TikTok has plans for another appeal as it faces a ban on January 19. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday rejected a temporary pause on the ban of TikTok, calling such a block “unwarranted ...
TikTok said it would replace its Beijing-based moderation with regional teams operating under greater autonomy in terms of content moderation. [3] [4] On 27 November 2019, TikTok temporarily suspended the account of Feroza Aziz after she posted a video (disguised as a makeup tutorial) which drew attention to the Xinjiang internment camps.
TikTok is in the crosshairs of authorities in the U.S., where new law threatens a nationwide ban unless its China-based parent ByteDance divests. TikTok is already banned in a handful of countries ...