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,

TikTok will become impossible to access via an American internet connection. It probably will remain possible to access from an American location, though. The rub is a virtual private network, which sets up an encrypted tunnel for internet browsing and can run it through practically any country.

With an American TikTok ban threatening the app, users and creators reflect on what it did for internet culture – and what their online worlds might look like without it.

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.

By Sunday morning, App stores run by Apple, Google and Samsung began removing ... the First Amendment and against arbitrary censorship," Chew said. TikTok may await a potential repeal of the ...

TikTok is currently still unavailable for many on Apple and Google’s app stores ... stand for the First Amendment and against arbitrary censorship. We will work with President Trump on a ...

TikTok's services are restored in the U.S. after President-elect Donald Trump pledged to sign an executive order to save it. It's been a wild 24 hours to say the least — starting with TikTok preemptively shutting down the app for users from 10:30pm on January 18.

The fate of TikTok now rests in the hands of the US Supreme Court. If a law banning the social video app this month is upheld, it won’t disappear from your phone—but it will get messy fast.

As TikTok users flock to RedNote, there are several considerations, including the privacy of your data. Here’s what you need to know.

TikTok says it’s “in the process” of restoring service to users in the United States after the popular video-sharing platform went dark in response to a new law.

Trump announced the decision in a post on his Truth Social account on Sunday as millions of TikTok users awoke to discover they couldn’t access the TikTok