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See more. March 13, 2024 at 1:48 PM. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that would ban TikTok, a popular social media app, if the Chinese-based parent company refuses to...
KRUTIKA PATHI. April 24, 2024 at 11:03 AM. NEW DELHI (AP) — The hugely popular Chinese app TikTok may be forced out of the U.S., where a measure to outlaw the video-sharing app has won ...
ByteDance created TikTok as a global version of Douyin. TikTok was launched in the international market in September 2017. [30] On 9 November 2017, ByteDance spent nearly $1 billion to purchase Musical.ly, a startup headquartered in Shanghai with an overseas office in Santa Monica, California.
After modifications, the act passed the House again [16] [17] and the United States Senate [18] before it was signed into law by Joe Biden on April 24, 2024. The earliest the ban could go into effect if not sold would be January 19, 2025. An additional 90 days could be issued on the deadline.
In 2020, then-President Trump signed an executive order banning the app in the U.S. But the move was shot down by the courts. TikTok ultimately agreed, however, to work with Oracle to ensure that ...
Donald Trump–TikTok controversy. In 2020, the United States government announced that it was considering banning the Chinese social media platform TikTok upon a request from then- president Donald Trump, who viewed the app as a national security threat. The result was that TikTok owner ByteDance —which initially planned on selling a small ...
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday set a fast-track schedule to consider the legal challenges to a new law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest TikTok's U.S. assets by Jan. 19 or face a...
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 ). As of March 2024, Zhang's personal wealth was estimated at US$40.2 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaires ...
President Biden signed a landmark bill Wednesday morning that gives China's ByteDance up to one year to divest TikTok or face a US ban on the app.
In November 2018, the Bangladeshi government blocked the TikTok app's Internet access as part of Bangladesh's crackdown on the removal of pornography and gambling sites. "I want to create a safe and secure internet for all Bangladeshis, including children. And this is my war against pornography.