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A look at India's TikTok ban four years on

by Devina Gupta and Naomi Rainey
Jun 28, 2024
U.S. lawmakers passed a bill that could lead to a TikTok ban. But it wouldn't be the first country block the Chinese-owned platform.
When the Indian government banned TikTok in 2020, many content creators there migrated to American platforms like Instagram and YouTube.
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A TikTok ban would be bad news for the beauty brands that advertise on it

by Kristin Schwab and Sofia Terenzio
Apr 2, 2024
A lot of brands don't seem to have a backup plan, says Jordan Holman of The New York Times. The platform is where "they need to be."
These days, TikTok is "the most formidable way that people are selling products," says Jordyn Holman of The New York Times.
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Congressional crackdown on TikTok raises logistical and legal questions

by Mitchell Hartman
Mar 14, 2024
Efforts to force parent company ByteDance to either divest or sell off the app would likely meet resistance from China.
Efforts to force parent company ByteDance to either divest or sell off TikTok would likely meet resistance from China.
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Ticktock, TikTok: Government agencies are on the clock to purge the app from all devices

by Samantha Fields
Feb 28, 2023
Canada and the EU, too.
"If you talk to some national security experts, they'll tell you the way to think about it is having 100 million little cameras that could be accessed by the Communist Party, running around America," said Jessica Melugin from the Competitive Enterprise Institute about having TikTok on cell phones.
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App wars between China and U.S. caught in tit-for-tat dynamic

by Jennifer Pak
Oct 1, 2020
Chinese officials seem to ignore the fact that they put up many obstacles for U.S. tech firms to operate in China.
Chinese smartphone users in Shanghai are largely blocked from accessing U.S. social media apps because of longstanding trade barriers.
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The next TikTok could well be on the way to the U.S. before long

by Scott Tong and Jennifer Pak
Sep 22, 2020
The wildly popular video-sharing app may be the beginning of a new era in Chinese tech.
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What Oracle and Walmart see in TikTok

by Marielle Segarra
Sep 21, 2020
It's about data.
A TikTok office in Culver City, California. Both Oracle and Walmart are interested in data.
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The WeChat ban will have economic effects, too

by Jasmine Garsd
Sep 18, 2020
In addition to the bans on downloads and updates, users in the U.S. won’t be able to make payments through WeChat.
Millions of Americans use the WeChat app to send money to family back in China.
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