TikTok employed a Chinese ex-diplomat to oversee the content allowed on its app during some of its highest growth stages, the Financial Times reported Sunday.
A Chinese-owned teen surveillance app is sponsoring a controversial American sports league under fire for its friendly ties to the Chinese government and its acquiescence in the face of Muslim genocide.
The Trump administration is set to ban downloads of China-based social media apps TikTok and WeChat, the Department of Commerce announced Friday. 
A new Chinese Communist Party document demonstrates intensified interest from the CCP in making private enterprise—especially tech companies—more in line with Communist Party leadership.
Taylor Lorenz, the New York Times‘s resident expert on teen culture, recently highlighted an “excellent piece” by former Times editorial board member Sarah Jeong. The piece, published in The Verge, criticized the Trump administration’s efforts to ban TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media app popular with sexy teens who like to dance.
To understand business in China, look to the demise of Neihan Duanzi, a popular joke-sharing app shuttered by authorities in 2018 for "indecent" content. Rather than protesting, the CEO of Neihan Duanzi-owner ByteDance, Zhang Yiming, issued a groveling apology for creating "content that goes against socialist core values" and failing to "direct public opinion in the right way." 
A Senate committee moved to ban the use of TikTok on U.S. government devices. 
Most journalists don't get their own glowing profile published in the New York Times, especially the ones who also work at the Times. But then again, most journalists aren't Taylor Lorenz. For whatever reason, the extremely online Times reporter and thirty-something expert on teen culture is one of the most celebrated (and most profiled) media professionals of the modern age—the Robin DiAngelo of internet memes. Former aides to powerful Democrats are flocking to TikTok's lobbying team as the Trump administration weighs a possible ban of the China-linked app that some policymakers consider a threat to national security. 
TikTok banned pro-life group Live Action for nearly a day over an innocuous video featuring mothers and babies that the social media platform now acknowledges did not actually violate its community guidelines. 