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Lawmakers making allegations against TikTok fail to mention that the United States itself surveils non-US nationals under Section 702 of FISA. [111] The types of data collected by TikTok are also collected by other social media platforms and sold through brokers to private buyers and reportedly government agencies as well, without oversight.
TikTok, whose mainland Chinese counterpart is Douyin, [ a ][ 3 ] is a short-form video hosting service owned by Chinese internet company ByteDance. It hosts user-submitted videos, which can range in duration from three seconds to 60 minutes. [ 4 ] It can be accessed with a smart phone app.
First released to the public in September 2017, TikTok is a video-sharing social networking service [79] used to make short-form videos, from genres like dance, comedy, and education. [80] [81] On 9 November 2017, ByteDance acquired Shanghai-based social media start-up Musical.ly for up to US$1 billion.
One video that drew particular attention on X came from a content creator who went by the name of Jessica Herman online before temporarily removing her profile from TikTok.
Jeffrey Katzenberg was probably too early when he launched Quibi (short for quick bites) in early 2020. The company closed down six months later having consumed nearly $1.5 billion of capital.
A senseless tragedy during the filming of a TikTok video caused one young Florida woman to lose her life — and another to go to prison on a manslaughter conviction.
The petition stated that TikTok's platform was being used to promote crime and glorified the use of drugs and weapons [42] in its short videos and called on the PTA to ban the app once again. According to Sara Ali Khan, legal representative of the Punjab resident, the PTA announced that TikTok had not adequately proven their ability to moderate ...
The No TikTok on Government Devices Act (S. 3455) was originally introduced in 2020 by Senator Josh Hawley (R - MO) and passed the United States Senate by unanimous consent on August 6, 2020. [3] The bill (S. 1143) was reintroduced on April 15, 2021, by Senator Hawley and it passed the Senate by unanimous consent again on December 14, 2022.