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Opinion | The TikTok Sale and the First Amendment - MSN
First, TikTok scoops up data on its 170 million monthly users in the U.S., which could potentially be used to track federal employees or to conduct blackmail or corporate espionage.
Some employees have argued political posts are good for business, and urged the company to loosen its political ads ban. Others worry politics could poison TikTok’s magic. Over a weekend this ...
In light of the Senate passing a forced sale of Chinese-owned TikTok, one senior Republican and FCC commissioner explains how the legislation is "so smart" and "very targeted."
TikTok itself also shared a 2024 economic impact report that showed small businesses advertising on TikTok saw an 88% increase in sales, taking in a total of $15 billion.
If China had a different political system, and different political ambitions, ... Still, there are some plausible 1st Amendment issues with trying to ban or force the sale of TikTok, ...
Trump extends TikTok sale deadline 75 more days, sees 'tremendous progress' on deal Trump says his administration is 'working very hard' on a deal to save the app for U.S. consumers.
POLITICS. TikTok (application) Add Topic. Congress passes TikTok sell-or-ban bill, ... But the Chinese government would also likely block the sale of TikTok's algorithm, ...
TikTok Sale Deadline Could Be Extended to 1 Year Security concerns and populist politics have the popular social media app in the spotlight, but a proposed delay on a forced selloff may ease small ...
As tomorrow’s TikTok ban deadline approaches, let us reconsider one of the more compelling arguments for its forced sale: the threat that the Chinese government may use the app to influence U.S ...
Our study is based on a massive dataset of over 16 million TikTok videos from more than 160,000 public accounts between 2019 and 2023. We saw a spike of political TikTok videos during the 2020 U.S ...
Bloomberg reported that TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is considering selling to Musk ahead of the current Jan. 19 deadline to divest or be banned.. The company previously opposed any sale ...