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Disney’s streaming wunderkind joins TikTok
Kevin Mayer, who transformed Disney into a streaming powerhouse, is leaving to become the CEO of TikTok, a Chinese social video app that has surged in popularity and drawn scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers. Mayer will also be the COO of ByteDance, the Chinese conglomerate that owns TikTok.
Bytedance poaching Facebook, Google talent in Singapore push
The decacorn’s upcoming ads network, Pangle, looks set to be based out of the city-state, alongside productivity suite Lark.
Chinese government backs Fruit Ninja-style game about killing viruses
The public education game, whose Chinese name translates to “battle of pathogens”, aims to help communicate epidemic prevention tips to players.
How much information about you is the Chinese Government accessing through your TikTok account?
The popular video-sharing app's reputation for light-hearted fun belies a much darker threat, with the Chinese Government able to access data on over a billion of TikTok's users.
That Video of Farts Captured by Thermal Cameras Looking For Coronavirus is Totally Fake
Have you seen that viral video of people farting in public, captured by China’s thermal imaging cameras that are on the hunt for coronavirus? It’s completely fake.
Targeting TikTok’s privacy alone misses a larger issue: Chinese state control
What's behind TikTok’s controversial record of content removals?
TikTok is reportedly on the hunt for a US-based CEO, and it could be the company's latest step to distance itself from ties to China
The move may help to distance TikTok from ByteDance, its Chinese parent company, and appease concerns about the app's ties to the Chinese government.
Chinese farmers create a buzz, and a living, through video-sharing apps
Posting clips about life on the farm has become popular and is helping some find a way out of poverty.
US Army bans soldiers from using TikTok over security worries | CNN Politics
The US Army has banned the use of the hugely popular short video app TikTok by its soldiers, calling it a security threat.
TikTok accused in California lawsuit of sending user data to China
A California college student has accused popular video-sharing app TikTok in a class-action lawsuit of transferring private user data to servers in China, despite the company's assurances that it does not store personal data there.
TikTok’s censorship problem
TikTok, the hottest social media app among teens in America, is increasingly finding itself in hot water for its connections to its Beijing-based parent company, Bytedance. Company executives are insisting that they would never censor for China or share data with Chinese authorities. The case of a 17-year-old American Muslim girl, Feroza Aziz, has made TikTok’s problems much worse.
Feroza Aziz and TikTok’s censorship problem
TikTok — the short-video app owned by a Chinese company that has become popular among young Americans — has been the subject of growing scrutiny…
Exclusive: China's ByteDance moves to ringfence its TikTok app amid U.S. probe - sources
ByteDance has stepped up efforts to separate its social media app TikTok from much of its Chinese operations, amid a U.S. national security panel's inquiry into the safety of the personal data it handles, people familiar with the matter said.
It’s difficult to believe TikTok when it says it doesn’t censor
Alex Zhu (朱骏 Zhū Jùn) is the head of TikTok, the first Chinese social media service to achieve real traction in the U.S. He wants desperately to maintain that traction as Washington turns up its scrutiny of TikTok’s parent company, the Chinese internet powerhouse Bytedance.
WeChat keeps banning Chinese Americans for talking about Hong Kong
The Chinese government is censoring WeChat users in the United States.
Exclusive: U.S. opens national security investigation into TikTok - sources
By Greg Roumeliotis, Yingzhi Yang, Echo Wang and Alexandra Alper
Four ways Facebook showed how much it wanted China
Mark Zuckerberg gave a speech decrying Chinese censorship, but it wasn’t long ago that he was courting China
TikTok censorship instructions
Photo credit: The China Project illustration For a few months now, there has been creeping suspicion that TikTok, the one China-based social media app to…
Revealed: how TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing
Leak spells out how social media app advances China’s foreign policy aims
The difference between TikTok and Douyin
In China, TikTok is known as Douyin (抖音 dǒuyīn), and both apps are made by Bytedance, a Beijing-based internet company. But the two apps are not exactly the same.
How TikTok Holds Our Attention
On the popular short-video app, young people are churning through images and sounds at warp speed, repurposing reality into ironic, bite-size content.
Teen dies mimicking Douyin stunt. Who’s at fault?
Teen dies mimicking Douyin stunt. Who’s at fault?
Families of missing Uighurs use Tiktok video app to publicise China detentions
Short messages campaign for information on loved ones held in Xinjiang camps
Does TikTok have a target on its back?
Here is the latest news from various fronts of the U.S.-China techno-trade war, day 382 by our count: Does TikTok have a target on its back? The…
China silences podcast and music apps as online crackdown widens – TechCrunch
Audio apps are flying high in China. In 2018, online listeners in the country grew 22.1% to surpass 400 million, at a rate far exceeding that of the mobile video and e-reading populations, according to market researcher iiMedia. But the fledgling sector is taking a hit. On Friday, a total of 26 audio-focused apps were […]
American wins fans with pro-China music videos – including one for Huawei
Burt Baker started uploading Chinese songs in English on Douyin and Kuaishou six months ago. Now he has millions of followers and plans to move to the country.
TikTok parent Bytedance is reportedly working on its own smartphone – TechCrunch
It’s been a busy couple of months for Bytedance, one of the world’s most valuable startups and the operator of globally popular video app TikTok. The Beijing-based company has continued to grow its list of apps to include the likes of work collaboration tool Lark, an instant messenger called Feiliao as well as a music streaming […]
China Business Corner: ‘There is no freedom on Douyin’
Welcome to the second entry of the China Business Corner, a weekly window into Chinese-language coverage of business, technology, and the broader economy, brought to…
