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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 ]
Zhang Yiming ( Chinese: 张一鸣; born April 1, 1983) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur. He founded ByteDance in 2012, developed the news aggregator Toutiao and the video sharing platform Douyin (internationally known as TikTok ). In March 2024, Zhang's personal wealth was estimated at US$40.2 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaires ...
ByteDance Ltd. is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Haidian, Beijing and incorporated in the Cayman Islands. [7] Founded by Zhang Yiming, Liang Rubo, and a team of others in 2012, ByteDance developed the video-sharing apps TikTok and Douyin. The company is also the developer of the news platform Toutiao.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita filed lawsuits against TikTok, alleging that the platform exposed inappropriate content to minors. The complaint also alleges that TikTok "intentionally falsely reports the frequency of sexual content, nudity, and mature/suggestive themes" on their platform which made the app's "12-plus" age ratings on the Apple and Google app stores deceptive.
TikTok's content moderation policies have been criticized as non-transparent. Internal guidelines 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, the 1998 Indonesian riots, Kurdish nationalism ...
List of Douyin original programming. Douyin, also known as TikTok internationally, is a Chinese short video platform owned by Bytedance. Unlike TikTok, Douyin in China also allow users to upload longer form video, including provide original programs started in 2019.
Chinese. On 11 April 2024, at 4:43 AM, [ 1] Liu Jie[ a], [ 2] a 20-year-old Chinese male gamer known as " Fat Cat " [ b] took his own life by jumping from a bridge in Yuzhong, Chongqing. After his suicide, his ex-girlfriend Tan faced a relentless online backlash on Chinese social media and was accused of exploiting him financially.
The court further asked broadcast media not to telecast any of those videos from the app. The spokesperson for TikTok stated that they were abiding by local laws and were awaiting a copy of the court order before they take action. [16] On 17 April, both Google and Apple blocked TikTok from Google Play and the App Store for users in India. [17]