At the time, India was TikTok’s biggest foreign market outside of China, with 200 million users. (For comparison, the U.S.

India’s 2020 crackdown helped give rise to Instagram Reels, which has largely replaced it there. But TikTok has proved more resilient elsewhere.

While banning the Chinese app, blamed globally for misinformation and political influencing, in 2020 was the right step, ...

TikTok’s time in the United States is counting down. But Washington is only the latest government to impose restrictions on the video app.

TikTok fans in the U.S. are racing to secure alternatives and safeguard their digital empires ahead of a looming shutdown, evoking the chaos of India's 2020 ban that erased the app from the lives of ...

The video staple YouTube has Shorts, which appear similar to TikTok’s video feed. The biggest advantage with this platform is its reach. Besides Facebook, YouTube is the most widely used social media ...

Facebook and other social media apps pose similar data privacy and national security threats as TikTok. So why has India banned only TikTok and not Meta's platforms?

With DeepSeek becoming the world’s leading app in no time, ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, has now released a research paper on its new video generation AI model, OmniHuman-1. The OmniHuman-1 ...

NEW DELHI – A Pakistani man has admitted to fatally shooting his 15-year-old daughter in Quetta, Pakistan, allegedly over her ...

I tried unblocking TikTok with a VPN and experienced mixed results. Here’s what you can expect if a TikTok ban comes back.

U.S. President Donald Trump has tasked Vice President JD Vance and national security adviser Michael Waltz with overseeing a potential sale of TikTok, Punchbowl News reported on Friday. ( ...