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Logo of TikTok. The online video platform TikTok has had worldwide a social, political, and cultural impact since its global launch in September 2016. The platform has rapidly grown its userbase since its launch and surpassed 2 billion downloads in October, 2020. It became the world's most popular website, ahead of Google, for the year 2021. [1]
Today wasn’t the slam dunk that TikTok needed as all three judges asked some very skeptical questions about the ByteDance relationship, but they didn’t let the government off easy, either.
TikTok, known in mainland China and Hong Kong and in other countries [3] as Douyin (Chinese: 抖音; pinyin: Dǒuyīn; lit. 'Shaking Sound'), [4] is a short-form video-hosting service owned by Chinese internet company ByteDance. It hosts user-submitted videos, which may range in duration from three seconds to 60 minutes. [5]
Why TikTok Was Banned. For years, U.S. lawmakers have expressed concerns over the risk of China potentially threatening the country’s national security through user data. ... USA TODAY. 3.8 ...
The app that crowdsources popularity via video engagement is the new "it" platform for aspiring artists.
In October 2020, TikTok users in Armenia reported a loss of app functionality, although it has not been confirmed whether this was the result of any intervention by the Armenian government in response to the use of the app by Azerbaijani sources to spread misinformation during the Second Nagorno-Karabakh war.
TikTok users ponder a post-TikTok world As the justices debated the fate of TikTok , Americans who use the platform for news, entertainment or to make a living were pondering a post-TikTok world.
TikTok's content moderation policies have been criticized as non-transparent (especially Douyin's). Internal guidelines depending on the country against the promotion of violence, separatism, and "demonization of countries" could be used to prohibit content related to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, Falun Gong, Tibet, Taiwan, Chechnya, Northern Ireland, the Cambodian genocide ...