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NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. TikTok users who once saw the app as a haven for free speech say they see signs of censorship after the platform, which is owned by China's ByteDance, was revived by an ...
TikTok's content moderation policies have been criticized as non-transparent (especially Douyin's). Internal guidelines depending on the country against the promotion of violence, separatism, and "demonization of countries" could be used to prohibit content related to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, Falun Gong, Tibet, Taiwan, Chechnya, Northern Ireland, the Cambodian genocide ...
Despite being a Chinese-made app, the international version of TikTok does not function on local networks in mainland China or Hong Kong, where users are instead encouraged to use the domestic version Douyin, presumably to shield Chinese users from politically sensitive content posted by foreign users.
A March 2021 study by the Citizen Lab found that TikTok did not censor searches politically but was inconclusive about whether posts are. [ 4 ] [ 187 ] A 2023 paper by the Internet Governance Project at Georgia Institute of Technology concluded that TikTok is "not exporting censorship, either directly by blocking material, or indirectly via its ...
TikTok’s attorney said the company won’t be able to meet the law’s divestiture requirement by Jan. 19, so the platform will cease to exist in the U.S. unless the law is blocked.
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 ...
TikTok returned to the Apple and Google app stores Thursday evening after President Trump delayed the ban on the video-sharing app last month. The Chinese-owned app was removed from the stores ...
A 2023 study of teenagers found that TikTok content influences both short term food decisions, such as trying a new food item or recipe, as well as long term food decisions, like dietary adjustments. [20] TikTok has also led to an increase in custom orders at restaurants, known on the platform as menu hacks.