TikTok, the only one of the three that prohibits political advertising altogether, did not. Global Witness’s researchers submitted the same eight ads to each platform, according to the report.

TikTok announced a ban on political advertising all the way back in 2019.So you’d be forgiven for thinking the ugly problem of democracy-denting political disinformation doesn’t apply inside ...

Economic Policy Mnuchin tried to force a sale of TikTok. Now he’s a possible bidder. The former treasury secretary’s interest in purchasing the popular app from China-based ByteDance is ...

A law requiring TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the app by Jan. 19 or face a total US ban was upheld in US appeals court on Friday – setting up a Supreme Court showdown in the coming ...

WASHINGTON—President Biden said Friday he would sign into law a bill effectively banning video app TikTok or forcing its sale, fueling lawmakers’ latest push to block the app’s Chinese ...

A new law says TikTok must be sold to a non-Chinese owner or face a ban in the United States. President Trump has thrown out a lot of options for a potential sale.

Social media platform TikTok stands on the brink of a forced sale after the House passed a measure on Wednesday that would ban the app unless it parts ways with its Chinese-owned parent company ...

President Trump said Thursday that he would “probably” extend the deadline for a sale of China-owned TikTok if terms aren't reached before a 75-day window for negotiations expires on April 5.

President Trump has managed to turn a controversial TikTok ban into a political advantage, framing himself as the savior of the popular video-sharing platform by offering the app a 75-day reprieve.

Our study is based on a massive dataset of over 16 million TikTok videos from more than 160,000 public accounts between 2019 and 2023. We saw a spike of political TikTok videos during the 2020 U.S ...

In January, TikTok took itself offline for about 14 hours — and app stores removed access to the platform in the United States — after the law’s initial sale-or-ban deadline passed with no deal.