In Vietnam, the censorship of TikTok has become a complex and controversial issue. [56] The Vietnamese government has imposed numerous regulations and restrictions on content allowed on the platform, particularly content related to politics …

4 days ago · NEW YORK, Jan 25 (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 ...

Jan 21, 2025 · In a historic development, Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok has become the center of a bipartisan bill to ban the app nationwide in the name of national security. Xiao Qiang, a research scientist at the UC Berkeley School of Information and a prominent scholar in the study of state censorship, propaganda, and disinformation in China, pointed to TikTok’s parent company ByteDance as ...

Transgender users on TikTok have complained of censorship after their posts were removed. [53] The BBC reported that the LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall stated that such actions had "sent a damaging message to young trans people using the platform for support". TikTok issued a statement claiming that they "categorically do not remove any content based ...

Jan 19, 2025 · Starting on Saturday night, TikTok, the short-form video app owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, was unavailable in the United States as a result of a new law that banned the company’s apps ...

Mar 19, 2024 · At the start of TikTok's ascendancy, there were high-profile cases of censorship on the app: a user in the US had her account suspended for discussing Beijing's treatment of Muslims in Xinjiang.

Jan 17, 2025 · Updates: Supreme Court Backs Law Requiring TikTok to Be Sold or Banned. The decision came a week after the justices heard a First Amendment challenge to a law aimed at the wildly popular short ...

Jan 18, 2025 · The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the federal government can legally shut down TikTok in the U.S., delivering a stunning blow to the viral video app used by about half of Americans.

Jan 17, 2025 · The Supreme Court on Friday rejected TikTok’s challenge to a law that could effectively ban the short-form video app in the United States.

Jan 17, 2025 · The US Supreme Court has upheld a law that bans TikTok in the US unless its China-based parent company ByteDance sells the platform by this Sunday. TikTok had challenged the law, arguing it would ...