TikTok has never been available in China, as the country has its own version of the app, called Douyin. Both apps are owned by the same Chinese company, ByteDance. Thus far, we've been unable to find ...

Washington — A law that could lead to a national ban of TikTok cleared the Senate on Tuesday night in a bipartisan vote of 79-18, representing one of the most serious threats to the immensely popular ...

It’s been more than three years since the lip-syncing app Musical.ly, now known as TikTok, first became popular among tweens and teens. The social network has since spread far beyond Generation Z: ...

Humanity has hit Tok bottom. Created in 2016 as a portal for short, humorous clips, TikTok has recently become synonymous with something far more sinister: viral internet challenges. Pull up the video ...

Three years ago, ByteDance was one of the world's largest technology unicorns and a household name in China's new media and entertainment sector. But like its bigger arch-rivals, Baidu, Alibaba and ...

TikTok’s rise in the West is unprecedented for any Chinese tech company, and so is the amount of attention it has attracted from politicians worldwide. Below is a timeline of how TikTok grew from what ...

With more than 4.5 billion downloads, TikTok has become hugely successful—and controversial Deborah D'Souza is the former news editor at Investopedia. She also writes articles that bring together ...

Elyse Betters Picaro is the former Editor-in-Chief of Pocket-lint and the former Operations Manager for Valnet's Consumer Tech brands, including Pocket-lint, Android Police, and XDA. She is based in ...

As Congress moves ahead with legislation that could ban TikTok, the popular platform has found an unlikely ally in Washington: Donald Trump. Over the last week, Trump has railed against a bill that ...

Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw ...

Videos being taken down, muted or hidden from followers: These are all issues that some TikTok creators say they’re facing for posting Black Lives Matter content. In the wake of releasing a statement ...