Two Republican members of Missouri’s congressional delegation are deferring to President Trump on what to do about TikTok. U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley has been working for years to get the app banned in the United States because it’s owned by ByteDance,

The human dancing videos and the cat dancing videos on TikTok have nothing on the dancing by politicians who voted for the law forcing its Chinese owner, ByteDance, to either sell the popular and

ByteDance, completes a divestiture that ends any operational or ownership ties to the Chinese government. The deadline for compliance was Jan. 19, 2025. The law was passed based on a concern that ...

The United States Supreme Court upheld a law on Friday that will force TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app or face a ban. However, the future of the platform is still unclear. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) praised the court's decision,

That puts Cleaver on the same side as his state legislative mate, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley. Hawley, Missouri’s senior Republican senator, led a bipartisan move in the Senate last year and has ...

Perplexity AI submitted a revised merger proposal to TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance as the popular video-sharing app stares down a national ban, according to multiple reports. Under the new ...

U.S. officials have long feared that the widely popular short-form video app could be used as a vehicle for espionage.

President Donald Trump said late Monday he hoped there would be a “bidding war” for TikTok, claiming Microsoft is now among the companies interested in buying ByteDance’s popular social ...

U.S. search engine startup Perplexity AI submitted a bid on Saturday to TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance for Perplexity to merge with TikTok U.S., a source familiar with the company's plans ...

Nearly 200 House Republicans and over 30 Senate Republicans voted to ban TikTok last year if it did not sell its U.S. operations.

The revised proposal allows for a new structure merging Perplexity AI and TikTok's U.S. business. The U.S. government could acquire up to a 50 percent nonvoting stake after a public offering valued at $300 billion or more. ByteDance would maintain equity in the new entity but cede control to a U.S. board.

(CNN) — TikTok went offline in the United States Saturday night, less than two hours before a ban was slated to go into effect. The extraordinary blackout prevents access to one of the world’s most popular social media apps – one tha?t had been used by 170 million Americans.