Douyin is the company’s cash cow and a China mainstay. By Claire Fu and Daisuke Wakabayashi Reporting from Seoul In China, there is no TikTok. There is only Douyin. After President Biden signed ...

TikTok announced a one-hour daily limit for users under 18, but authorities in China have pushed the domestic version, Douyin, much further. China Report is MIT Technology Review’s newsletter ...

Both are owned by Beijing-based parent company ByteDance, but Douyin launched before TikTok and became a viral sensation in China. Its powerful algorithm became the foundation for TikTok and is ...

And Douyin has proven a perfect domestic propaganda tool: a direct line of communication with China’s youth to pump out pro-social and pro-China messages. Perhaps that’s why Chinese kids are ...

TikTok has never been available in China, as the country has its own version of the app, called Douyin. Both apps are owned by the same Chinese company, ByteDance. Thus far, we've been unable to ...

Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok known for its 15-second short videos, is snapping up rights to films and television shows through a partnership with iQiyi, China's answer to Netflix.

In the U.S., children experience the same version of TikTok as adults, while children in China see a modified version of Douyin that includes more educational content, they said. In recent years ...

However, a separate Douyin app also exists and is exclusive to users within China. Taiwanese TikTok users were more likely, by up to 10 percentage points or more, to agree with arguments that cast ...