A new law signed by President Joe Biden, which could lead to a ban on TikTok next year, is unconstitutional and should be overturned, the social media platform argued in new legal filings on Thursday. The law, signed in April, mandates ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, to divest the business or face a ban within … Read more
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accused President Joe Biden of advocating for a ban on TikTok, shifting the responsibility onto Biden if such a ban were to be imposed. Trump’s statement, posted on his Truth Social platform, claimed that Biden’s actions were aimed at benefiting Facebook and urged voters to take note of Biden’s stance. … Read more
Gallagher Urges Biden to Reconsider TikTok Decision Bipartisan Concerns Emerge Over Biden’s TikTok Debut According to The Telegraph, Mike Gallagher, who leads the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), has persuasively urged President Joe Biden to change course and not join TikTok, a video-sharing platform. Gallagher believes that persisting on this course … Read more
In the first half of 2023, social media giants Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, imposed a record-breaking number of restrictions on social media posts and accounts in Malaysia. The data, released in Meta’s Transparency Report, revealed that approximately 3,100 pages and posts were restricted, a six-fold increase from the previous six-month period … Read more
A federal judge has temporarily halted Montana’s ambitious statewide TikTok ban, which was scheduled to take effect at the beginning of 2024, pending a trial on the matter. The decision by US District Judge Donald Molloy questions the motivations behind the law, suggesting that Montana’s legislature and Attorney General were more focused on targeting China’s … Read more