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House passes bill that would lead to a TikTok ban if Chinese owner doesn’t sell. Senate path unclear

Posted by Jodi Leese Glusco | Mar 13, 2024

TikTok, which has more than 150 million American users, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chinese technology firm ByteDance Ltd.

Wait, is America actually banning TikTok now?

Posted by WRAL News | Mar 8, 2024

House lawmakers are moving with dizzying speed with a plan that could ban TikTok from the United States.

Tech companies sign accord to combat AI-generated election trickery

Posted by WRAL News | Feb 16, 2024

Biden’s campaign joins TikTok, even as administration warns of national security concerns with app

Posted by WRAL News | Feb 12, 2024

President Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign is now on TikTok, even though he has expressed national security concerns over the platform and banned it on federal devices.

Universal threatens to pull songs off TikTok in dispute over payments

Posted by Jodi Leese Glusco | Jan 31, 2024

Universal Music Group has threatened to pull its music off TikTok in a dispute over royalties, a move that would prevent more than 1 billion users of the platform from streaming a vast catalog of songs by Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Rihanna and other artists.

Meta, TikTok and other tech chiefs face lawmakers on child safety online

Posted by Jodi Leese Glusco | Jan 31, 2024

Five of the most prominent CEOs in tech face questions Wednesday from a powerful Senate committee about an issue that has drawn rare bipartisan scrutiny: the dangers that children encounter online.

Teens’ social media drops slightly; YouTube dominates, survey finds

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Dec 14, 2023

Teen usage of social media hasn’t dropped much, despite rising concerns about its effects on the mental health of adolescents, a survey from the Pew Research Institute found.

Judge: Google, Meta, Snap and TikTok must face teen addiction claims

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Nov 15, 2023

Major social media companies must face allegations that their services addicted teen users and caused other mental health harms after a federal judge on Tuesday denied a motion to dismiss the bellwether lawsuit filed by a wave of consumer plaintiffs.