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 isn’t the villain here. It’s a symptom of a much larger issue: the lack of clear, enforceable rules for data privacy and security. Instead of banning the app, the government should focus on fixing the system.

Users looking for a TikTok alternative learn about daily life in China, but some posts are taboo.

As self-described " TikTok refugees" pour onto the Chinese social media app RedNote, also known as Xiaohongshu, some foreign netizens are already running up against the country's extensive censorship apparatus. Newsweek reached out to Xiaohongshu with a request for comment via a general contact email address.

In an action without any direct precedent in the United States, the American government forced the temporary shutdown of a major social media network on Saturday for 14 hours, setting a precedent for future violations of First Amendment rights.

"I cannot profess the kind of certainty I would like to have about the arguments and record before us," writes Justice Gorsuch.

After nearly three hours of Supreme Court arguments Friday morning, Americans are one step closer to learning whether a TikTok ban will take effect in nine days.

After President Trump gave TikTok a 90-day reprieve from a U.S. ban, a small but growing group of California politicians who are active on the app have been left wondering what comes next.

From expedited Constitutional challenges to an exodus of self-proclaimed “TikTok Refugees” to new foreign-owned social media platforms, the past week leading up to the Jan. 19, 2025, deadline for the TikTok Ban has been a whirlwind of legal and political activity.

The Chinese social media app, popular in the United States a week after being flooded by TikTok users, has added language translation features.

When asked, for instance, about Chinese censorship of Twitter in 2009 ... approving on Friday a law that would shut off access to TikTok, the U.S. is poised to conduct the exact kind of internet ...

TikTok’s decision to shut the app down for ... Mark Zuckerberg scrapped Meta’s censorship policies after his own Facebook post in 2023 about a martial-arts related knee injury got demoted ...