WASHINGTON – General Atlantic CEO Bill Ford said on Wednesday that a deal would get done to save TikTok in the U.S. after President Donald Trump signed an executive order that halted a ban on the app for 75 days.
The Chinese Communist Party uses the platform to cultivate a social consensus that undermines U.S. society.
Columnist David Marcus writes that TikTok must be taken out of the Chinese Communist Party's hands if it is to turn the lights back on.
President Donald Trump reversal on TikTok has to led to some Republican supporters also embracing a social media app they once vilified.
Barstool Sports founder and president Dave Portnoy shares his thoughts on the TikTok debate on 'The Will Cain Show.'
Social media juggernaut TikTok has been given a reprieve thanks to President Trump signing an executive order to delay the enforcement of a ban in America — which amounts to a 75-day lifeline.
Of Wisconsin’s eight-member House delegation, only Democratic Reps. Mark Pocan and Gwen Moore voted against the TikTok ban, citing an impediment on American user’s free speech rights. Shortly after the TikTok ban went into effect, Pocan wrote in a social media post Sunday that the ban was “Congress and the executive branch at their worst.”
Shanghai-based Xiaohongshu, or RedNote as it is known in English, is a Chinese social media platform growing in popularity as an alternative to TikTok, but with the same security risks.
One GOP senator says that as long as the app’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, owns the platform, it should not be allowed to operate within the
TikTok, with 170 million US users, faces a potential ban unless its Chinese owner, ByteDance, sells its US operations. President Trump has delayed the ban, considering alternatives like a joint ownership with US investors.
President Trump’s plan to save TikTok is putting him at a crossroads with some Republicans as questions mount over the legality of delaying a ban on the popular video-sharing app. Trump said
ByteDance plans to invest over $20.64 billion in capital expenditure this year, mainly focusing on artificial intelligence infrastructure such as data centers and networking equipment. This spending aims to bolster AI capabilities both domestically and internationally,