Google faced backlash Sunday for the apparent censorship of the assassination attempt against 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump from the search engine’s “autocomplete” feature.

The company continues to insist it’s committed to diversity and inclusion (TikTok did donate $3 million to LGBTQ-friendly causes earlier this year), but its checkered censorship record makes it ...

TikTok surreptitiously collected information from users' Android smartphones without their consent, an apparent violation of Google's app store policies, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday ...

TikTok's parent company ByteDance has until Sunday to divest from the video-sharing site or see it banned in the U.S, as required by a law passed by Congress last year, citing risks to users' data.

TikTok has over 1 billion monthly active users and is dominating the App Store. TikTok has produced countless memes involving dancing, VSCO Girls, Old Town Road, and Spooky Scary Skeletons.

Of course, TikTok isn’t just about money — it’s about connection. The app has reshaped how we consume and create media, giving rise to trends, movements and entirely new genres of content.

With TikTok's days in the U.S. likely numbered, many American users are moving to another Chinese social media app: RedNote, a heavily censored platform similar to Instagram. Here's what to know.

Mr. Gorbunov, a Russian blogger who goes by the handle Stalin_Gulag, wrote on the social media service Telegram in March that a TikTok ban could result in further censorship in his country.

Another point of uncertainty is whether a VPN will facilitate downloads of TikTok’s app on Apple and Google devices, given the tech giants’ obligation to stop offering the app to new U.S ...

Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store can be fined up to $10,000 for allowing TikTok to be downloaded in the state, and, although it remains unclear how the law will actually be enforced, the ...

The top lawmakers on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) told Apple and Google on Friday to prepare to remove TikTok from their app stores, as a potential ban looms ...

The bill makes it illegal to download TikTok in the state, with penalties of up to $10,000 a day for any entity, such as Apple and Google's app stores or TikTok itself, that makes the popular ...