Last year, most lawmakers deemed the Chinese tech giant ByteDance a national security risk and banned its apps. Now, under a Trump reprieve, it’s shipping new apps anyway.| Forbes
Since Elon Musk torpedoed Twitter, Bluesky has seen a stunning surge. CEO Jay Graber is working on “billionaire-proofing” social media against any similar takeover.| Forbes
“I’ve been in this industry for a long time. I don’t want to be told what to do.” —a former TikTok executive| Forbes
Three hundred current employees at TikTok and its parent company ByteDance previously worked for Chinese state media publications, according to public employee LinkedIn profiles reviewed by Forbes.| Forbes
Lawmakers will vote for the first time on a bill that would force a sale or ban of the hugely popular social media app.| Forbes
A former employee of TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, claims Chinese national police detained his father and took him to "a remote secret facility" to inter...| Forbes
A panel of judges ruled Friday to uphold the law to ban TikTok or force its sale to an American owner. Here are their core arguments.| Forbes
Other security issues at the sites have included unattended boxes of hard drives, illicit crypto mining, and a sanctioned supplier.| Forbes
Some of the ads include descriptions of sexual violence, paired with images of battered women and photos of male fitness influencers, which were used without permission.| Forbes
A ByteDance app called Feishu that holds nearly all of TikTok’s internal communications was subject to a “wide-ranging inspection” before the CCP’s 20th National Congress last fall, documents show.| Forbes
Months before the U.S. government demanded ByteDance divest from TikTok, the Department Of Justice’s Criminal Division subpoenaed the app’s Chinese parent company, according to a source.| Forbes
ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location using their IP addresses, as first reported by Forbes in October.| Forbes
The committee cited BuzzFeed News reporting that China-based employees at TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, had repeatedly accessed sensitive US user data.| Forbes
TikTok and ByteDance employees regularly engage in “heating,” a manual push that ensures specific videos “achieve a certain number of video views,” according to six sources and documents reviewed by Forbes.| Forbes
The internal risk assessment, completed in late 2021, also warned of rampant self-dealing, embezzlement, and potential indictment of executives.| Forbes
AI study aid chatbots for teen users provided detailed recipes for drugs, dangerous dieting advice, and tips on “pickup artistry” in tests conducted by Forbes.| Forbes
Roland Cloutier, a U.S. Air Force veteran and former law enforcement officer, stepped down as TikTok’s Global Chief Security Officer in July 2022 as the Biden administration continues to evaluate the national security risks posed by TikTok’s Chinese ownership.| Forbes
The project, assigned to a Beijing-led team, would have involved accessing location data from some U.S. users’ devices without their knowledge or consent.| Forbes
Elon Musk has long claimed civilization will collapse unless we raise the birth rate. Meanwhile, his “DOGE” group is slashing billions in funding for pregnant and nursing mothers and their children.| Forbes
For the past four years the Biden administration and TikTok have been negotiating a deal to resolve national security concerns posed by the Chinese-owned app. Here’s a look inside a draft of the deal.| Forbes
At the Supreme Court argument, the justices homed in on one key question: Can Congress ban a speech platform to stop the Chinese government from manipulating it?| Forbes
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, which grants security clearance from millions of American workers, is using AI to speed up its work.| Forbes
The law that could ban TikTok gives creators a right to get all their data back from the company before a potential ban — as long as they know to ask for it.| Forbes
If it takes effect, the TikTok law will ban Oracle from hosting TikTok users’ data. That puts the data back in ByteDance’s hands — where it could flow back to China.| Forbes
The tech giants all have large cloud contracts with TikTok — and they’ll have to end service on them by January 19 unless a court intervenes.| Forbes
A major ruling today will require the tech giants to remove TikTok from their app stores by January 19 or face enormous fines — unless the courts throw them a bone before then.| Forbes
The ads, live as of today, falsely claimed that Democrats plan to postpone the election and insinuated that Vice President Kamala Harris might drop out of the race.| Forbes
In hundreds of groups across the social media app, women with unwanted pregnancies turn to one another for pills and herbal remedies. Many say they are getting scammed instead.| Forbes
It’s been more than eight years since content farms overseas started “American” fake news pages on Facebook. Their business, now fueled by AI, is still going strong.| Forbes
These Scammers Used Deepfakes In A Massive ‘Free Trump Swag’ Swindle| Forbes
Middle Eastern state media accounts get 100s of millions of views on TikTok and Meta, shaping international news. The platforms promised to label them — but haven’t.| Forbes
As Gauth AI surges in popularity, its parent company ByteDance is fighting to keep TikTok available in the U.S.| Forbes
Internal privacy experts worried that not having a corporate records retention policy could violate U.S. and EU laws. Years later, the company still doesn’t have one.| Forbes
There are multiple ways the U.S. government might attempt to ban TikTok over national security concerns. But TikTok will almost certainly challenge a ban in court.| Forbes
The websites and policies for new apps Cici AI, ChitChop, Coze, and BagelBell don’t mention that they were made by ByteDance.| Forbes
In 2021, TikTok became the most visited website in the world. Since then, it has led trends in American culture and commerce, and played an increasing role in civic and political discourse around the world.| Forbes
As AI-generated pornography has exploded, human porn stars say the new technology has been used to make them do or say things without their permission.| Forbes
A former Google engineer and the founder of stealth AI startup Extropic, is behind the Twitter account leading the “effective accelerationism” movement sweeping Silicon Valley.| Forbes
A Nebraska teenager is facing criminal charges alleging she aborted a fetus in violation of state law, after authorities obtained her Facebook messages using a search warrant.| Forbes
