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Video-sharing app TikTok, and its Chinese parent company ByteDance, have filed a legal challenge in the US against a legislative move to force its sale, lest it face a country-wide ban. The petition said the demand violated constitutional guarantees to free speech detailed in the First Amendment, after President Joe Biden signed a bill giving the tech firm nine months to find a non-Chinese buyer. TikTok is estimated to have around a billion users worldwide and roughly 170 million users in the US. The firms argued on Sunday that “Congress has made a law curtailing massive amounts of protected s...
Hong Kong Free Press
Tiktok zieht vor Gericht gegen das US-Gesetz, das einen Eigentümerwechsel bei der populären Kurzvideo-App erzwingen soll. Es verstoße gegen die in der US-Verfassung verankerte Redefreiheit, argumentierte die Tochterfirma des in China ansässigen Bytedance-Konzerns in der eingereichten Klage. Bytedance hat laut dem Gesetz rund ein Jahr Zeit, sich von Tiktok zu trennen, bevor die App aus App-Stores in den USA verbannt wird. Zur Begründung wird auf das Risiko verwiesen, dass China sich Zugriff auf Daten von Amerikanern verschaffen und politischen Einfluss ausüben könne. In der Tiktok-Klage heißt e...
DPA (German)
Für Tiktok tickt die Uhr: Die populäre Kurzvideo-App soll in den USA nicht mehr verfügbar sein, wenn sie in einem Jahr noch dem in China ansässigen Konzern Bytedance gehört. Tiktok hat zwar auch ähnliche Probleme wie andere Online-Plattformen: extremistische Beiträge, potenziell gefährliche Trends, Vorwürfe von Suchtgefahr. Doch in diesem Fall bringt die US-Politik das Risiko von Datensammlung und Propaganda durch China in den Vordergrund. Was passiert jetzt?Zunächst einmal nichts sofort. Das Gesetz gibt Bytedance neun Monate, Tiktok an einen von den USA akzeptierten Investor zu verkaufen. US-...
DPA (German)
The US House of Representatives has approved a bill that would force TikTok’s owner to sever ties with its Chinese parent company ByteDance or face a ban there. US President Joe Biden says he will sign it into law if senators approve it, amid concerns about Beijing’s influence over the hugely popular app and its access to data on American users. China – which bans TikTok and most western social media platforms domestically – said on Thursday that it “will take all necessary measures to resolutely safeguard its legitimate rights and interests,” in light of the US legislative moves. The app is o...
Hong Kong Free Press
Seoul (AFP) - From its birth in a Beijing apartment 12 years ago, ByteDance grew into one of the world's biggest tech firms -- best known in most countries as the creator of TikTok. But TikTok now faces a furious campaign in Washington: the House of Representatives is set to vote Wednesday on a bill that could see the wildly popular video-sharing app banned in the United States if it does not sever itself from ByteDance. How big is ByteDance? ByteDance has rocketed in recent years to become one of the most valuable companies in the world, worth around $225 billion, according to market intellig...
AFP
TikTok is encouraging creators to create videos longer than a minute. The Creator Rewards Program - formerly known as the Creativity Program - will only pay for clips more than 60 seconds long as more ads can be shown. TikTok - which is owned by China's ByteDance - said: "The Creator Rewards Program will continue rewarding high-quality, original content over a minute long with an optimized rewards formula focused on 4 key areas: originality, play duration, search value and audience engagement." TikTok has found total creator revenue increased "by 250 per cent within the last 6 months, and the ...
BANG Showbiz English
Universal Music Group is to pull its music from TikTok over pay disparity and AI concerns. The music label - which is home to the likes of Taylor Swift and Drake - has fallen out with the video-sharing app owned by Chinese firm ByteDance and is yet to agree new terms after their licensing agreement ended on January 31. UMG raised issues about "appropriate compensation for our artists and songwriters, protecting human artists from the harmful effects of AI, and online safety for TikTok's users." It claimed that only 1 per cent of its revenue comes from TikTok, despite social media site's "massi...
BANG Showbiz English
Texas will ban TikTok use on state-owned devices or networks after all. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University challenged the government's proposed ban in a lawsuit filed in July, insisting it "is preventing or seriously impeding faculty from pursuing research that relates to TikTok." However, on Monday (11.12.23), U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman said the government's data concerns make it a "reasonable restriction". He wrote: "Public university faculty - and all public employees - are free to use TikTok on their personal devices (as long as such devices are not used to ...
BANG Showbiz English
ByteDance is minimising its gaming business. The Beijing-based firm - which is best known for its short-form video platform TikTok - has confirmed it has been forced to "restructure" the department, four years after it launched. The BBC reports that games that have already launched will remain but any others will be scrapped. A ByteDance spokesperson simply told the outlet it "made the difficult decision to restructure our gaming business." It comes after Nuverse reassured players of 'Marvel Snap' that the game will not be impacted by the reported redundancies. In a statement on the 'Marvel Sn...
BANG Showbiz English
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified for several hours on Thursday in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee to defend TikTok as U.S. lawmakers threaten to ban the app in the United States. Members of Congress expressed their fears that TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, could be legally compelled to give the Chinese government access to data that it requests. Some representatives said that TikTok could be used as a data-mining operation by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to gather intelligence about the United States and its citizens. “To the American people watching today, hear thi...
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