U.S. officials have long feared that the widely popular short-form video app could be used as a vehicle for espionage.

With an American TikTok ban threatening the app, users and creators reflect on what it did for internet culture – and what ...

TikTok faced a ban in the US that prevented the service from over 170 million users. But within a day of the ban, this restriction has been lifted in the region. The company just shared the ...

TikTok said it was working to restore service to US users Sunday morning after President-elect Donald Trump assured its third-party service providers they were operating within the law by working with ...

Less than 24 hours after going dark on 19 January, TikTok is back online. In a statement on X, TikTok said that it is in the ...

Cheng Xin/Getty Images Many newcomers are bound to come up against government censorship, and some are already probing these limits. An X (formerly Twitter) user with the handle Dispropaganda ...

Chinese users have welcomed them with offers to help translate and a touch of schadenfreude that Americans are jumping into the “great fire wall” of Chinese internet censorship to escape a ...

Pulling the plug on that isn’t just inconvenient; it’s a form of censorship and “a burden on free speech.” And once the government starts banning platforms, where does it, in a purely ...

It’s a beautiful thing – it really is.” Just days into using RedNote, some have started to express frustration over the censorship rules, which go far beyond what they’re used to.

China stopped short on Wednesday of saying whether it would step up censorship of foreign content on RedNote, saying only that it supported “people-to-people exchanges”. RedNote, the Chinese ...