Trump, TikTok and California
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TikTok’s new US business, led by a group of mainly American investors approved by President Donald Trump, is off to an inauspicious start.
Now that the United States has control of the social media sensation TikTok, many users are deleting their accounts in protest.
A West Virginia woman has been arrested and charged with one count of terroristic threats over a TikTok video allegedly aimed at Donald Trump.
Trump has claimed the deal meets requirements for “qualified divestiture” to avoid a TikTok ban otherwise required under the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. However, questions remain, as lawmakers have not yet analyzed the terms of the deal to determine whether that’s true.
Did Elliot Forhan, a Democrat running to be Ohio's attorney general, post a video on TikTok in which he says "I'm going to kill Donald Trump"? Yes, that's true: Forhan, who served one term in the Ohio legislature,
Here's which companies and investors own TikTok, who owns Oracle, and what to know about the app's new terms and conditions.
A TikTok USDS spokesperson told Ars that US owners have not yet made any changes to the algorithm or content moderation policies. So far, the only changes have been to the US app’s terms of use and privacy policy, which impacted what location data is collected, how ads are targeted, and how AI interactions are monitored.