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,

Two readers react to counterarguments on the US TikTok ban from Senator Edward J. Markey and Representative Jake Auchincloss.

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.

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

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.

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 ...

Regardless of whether or not TikTok gets the axe, the battle against censorship is only just beginning. The tale of the adult entertainer and the video hosting platform TikTok initially developed ...

When the Supreme Court upheld a law that banned TikTok from the US, it seemed well aware that its ruling could resonate far beyond one app. The justices delivered an unsigned opinion with a quote from Justice Felix Frankfurter from 1944: “in considering the application of established legal rules to the ‘totally new problems’ raised by the airplane and radio,

After all, TikTok is the reason there are more self-made millionaire influencers and content creators in the U.S. than ever before.

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.