Sapna Maheshwari

A judge said this week that a former executive at ByteDance seemed to have fabricated evidence and submitted false statements in a high-profile 2023 lawsuit against the company.

The company is requesting a pause on a law that requires the app to be sold or face a ban in the United States by mid-January, aiming to buy time for the Supreme Court or the incoming Trump administration to rescue it.

The social media service was flooded with videos on Friday after a panel of judges upheld a law that could shutter the app in the United States.

The law will ban the video app in the United States by Jan. 19 if its owner, ByteDance, does not sell it to a non-Chinese company.

Governments have expressed concerns that TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, may endanger sensitive user data.

Rachel Accurso might be this era’s Mister Rogers, if he had been on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. Toy companies and publishers all want a piece of the action.

When asked about whether President-elect Donald Trump would prevent a TikTok ban in the United States, a spokeswoman told The New York Times: “He will deliver.”

Tens of thousands of videos are posted to TikTok each week about the presidential election, including dances set to songs made from speech snippets, comedic impersonations, pranks and even news commentary.

More than a dozen states sued TikTok on Tuesday for creating an app designed to be addictive to children and teens.

TikTok on Monday pushed back against a law that would force the popular video app to sell to a non-Chinese owner or be banned, in what is shaping up to be a landmark case.

TikTok will be in federal court on Monday, aiming to block a new law that will ban the popular video app in the United States early next year.

The company is an increasingly popular source of political news. It’s adding more content about how elections work and media literacy.

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Marketing firms are using artificial intelligence to help analyze influencers and predict whether they will opine about the election.

For its first conference on the creator economy, the Biden administration celebrated social media creators. The president lauded them as a “breakthrough in how we communicate.”

In its first detailed response to a legal challenge, the agency said TikTok’s proposed changes wouldn’t prevent China from using it to collect U.S. users’ data or spread propaganda.

Carlos Espina is among a new kind of social media personalities whom politicians, especially those in the Biden White House, view as modern-day broadcasters.

The company said the disclosures support its argument that a law signed by President Biden in May is unconstitutional.

The platform will keep state-affiliated media accounts out of users’ feeds if they “attempt to reach communities outside their home country on current global events and affairs.”

Mr. McCourt, a longtime critic of the way tech companies use data, sees acquiring TikTok as a chance to create an “alternative to the current internet.”