Following an executive order from President Donald Trump, U.S. TikTok users are reportedly seeing signs of increased censorship on the app, once seen as a free-speech haven. After going offline for a brief period due to new laws aimed at addressing national security concerns,

Timing really is everything. A week on from TikTok’s short-lived ban over fears of Chinese harvesting U.S. data, despite consistent denials from the platform and its parent that it’s doing anything of the sort, here comes another app that admits to doing exactly that. And if you still think TikTok is bad — this is so much worse.

Amid ongoing fears over TikTok, Chinese generative AI platform DeepSeek says it’s sending heaps of US user data straight to its home country, potentially setting the stage for greater scrutiny.

TikTok has fought the ban, most recently before the Supreme Court. Free-speech advocates contend that the ban would violate First Amendment rights. But the justices sided with the government on January 17,

In a historic development, Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok has become the center of a bipartisan bill to ban the app nationwide in the name of national security. Xiao Qiang, a research scientist at the UC Berkeley School of Information and a prominent scholar in the study of state censorship,

Some GOP lawmakers are grumbling over President Trump’s “Kitchen Cabinet” of billionaire allies such as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who

With TikTok's days in the U.S. likely numbered, many American users are moving to another Chinese social media app: RedNote, a heavily censored platform similar to Instagram. Here's what to know.

The app had more than 170 million monthly users in the U.S. The black-out is the result of a law forcing the service offline unless it sheds its ties to ByteDance, its China-based parent company.

Google and Apple removed the app from their digital ... TikTok does not operate in China, where ByteDance instead offers Douyin, the Chinese sibling of TikTok that follows Beijing’s strict censorship rules. Under the law, mobile app stores are barred ...

INDUSTRY ANALYSTS SAY IT MEANS THE APP WILL BE REMOVED FROM APPLE AND GOOGLE APP STORES. THEY COULD FACE FINES IF THEY DON’T COMPLY WITH THE LAW. 170 MILLION AMERICANS CURRENTLY USE TIKTOK.

Donald Trump had asked the Supreme Court to delay TikTok’s ban-or-sale law to give him an opportunity to act once he returns to the White House.

In the meantime, Biden's stated refusal to enforce the ban means that owners of U.S. smartphone app stores, such as Apple and Google, might decide to leave TikTok alone. In other words ...