The founder of the app’s parent, Beijing-based ByteDance, met with Elon Musk last year.

President-elect Donald Trump‘s effort to save TikTok after it briefly went dark in the United States is setting his administration up for what could be an early dispute with the China hawks in his own party.

Tech companies like OpenAI are in the grip of a new Red Scare — and talented immigrants are getting caught in the crossfire.

China's foreign ministry said on Monday companies should "decide independently" on matters of their operations and deals, responding to a question about U.S. President-elect Donald Trump proposing a 50% U.

Users told that American requests for images of sensitive areas should be ignored over national security concerns.

The app’s availability in the U.S. has been thrown into jeopardy over data privacy and national security concerns.

After years of rejecting the idea of a sale of TikTok’s US assets to an American buyer in order to avert a ban, China and ByteDance may have found an owner they could live with: Elon Musk.

China reacted cautiously to US President-elect Donald Trump's offer that 50 per cent of the TikTok ownership should be in American hands, saying such decisions should be independently made by companies while emphasizing that Chinese laws apply to local firms.

If lawmakers continue to prioritize politically expedient anti-China bans, then they will fail to convince the public they are acting in its best interests.

The fate of TikTok seems to be sealed for the moment. The Biden administration firmly announced the social media giant would have to look to the Trump administration for help after tomorrow’s ban likely will see the app go dark.

This looming TikTok ban has over 170 million US TikTok users (who have named themselves "TikTok Refugees") scrambling for a replacement app. And that's what these users have seemingly found in Xiaohongshu or RedNote — a Chinese-owned social media app that has already risen to #1 on the US App Store.