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 TikTokโs problems much worse.
TikTok โ the short-video app owned by a Chinese company that has become popular among young Americans โ has been the subject of growing scrutiny...
Alex Zhu (ๆฑ้ช Zhลซ Jรนn) 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 TikTokโs parent company, the Chinese internet powerhouse Bytedance.
Episode 55 of TechBuzz China is about a company we have admittedly relegated to a โsupporting roleโ thus far here on TechBuzz: Kuaishou, which is...
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...
In China, TikTok is known as Douyin (ๆ้ณ dวuyฤซn), and both apps are made by Bytedance, a Beijing-based internet company. But the two apps are not exactly the same.
Teen dies mimicking Douyin stunt. Whoโs at fault?
Here is the latest news from various fronts of the U.S.-China techno-trade war, day 382ย by our count: Does TikTok have a target on its back?ย The...
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...