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TikTok, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, has become a key advertising platform in the West and also a flashpoint in the ongoing U.S.-China tussle.

Few, if any of us, live in a place like Mayberry, the fictitious town in North Carolina that provides the bucolic setting for the 1960s television program “The Andy Griffith Show.” Before we leave our homes, we secure our doors and windows. When leaving our vehicles, we lock their doors.…

Australia has joined a raft of other countries in banning the popular video sharing app TikTok from government devices, as several outlets have today reported.

Rep. Jeff Jackson of North Carolina has used it to explain the complex fight over raising the debt limit. Rep. Robert Garcia of California has used it to engage with members of the LGBTQ+ community. And Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania has used it to give an overview of Election…

More than two dozen members of Congress — all Democrats — who are active on TikTok are now facing questions about whether they’ll continue to use it

The top attorney for TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance said Friday the Biden administration hasn’t given any feedback to the company since TikTok’s CEO testified in Congress last week

The Met Police, which has more than 30,000 officers, has blocked mobile-phone access to TikTok and most other social-media apps

Under pressure from the U.S. government, TikTok is now facing the music with the possibility of a nationwide ban if it defies a government order to sell to an American company — unless the popular social media app can convince a high-powered panel that its data security restructuring plan sufficiently…

Chinese-owned firm caught in geopolitical standoff, with US lawmakers leading charge against it