When even Donald Trump wishes Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce “a lot of luck” with their just-announced engagement, you know who truly owns the news cycle. After dating for two years, most of it very much in the global spotlight, one of the best-selling musicians of all time and the three-time Super Bowl champion dropped…
Facing rape and sex-trafficking charges in Romania and the UK, and a criminal investigation in the USA, so-called “king of toxic masculinity” Andrew Tate has decided now is the time to go after Meta and TikTok for kicking the self-described far-right misogynist off their platforms a while ago. Presently holed up in Dubai with his…
Private equity giant Blackstone has withdrawn from a consortium seeking to invest in TikTok’s U.S. operations, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. The latest change came as uncertainty has mounted and there have been several delays in the TikTok deal now at the center of U.S.-China trade talks. Blackstone had planned…
As the clock ticks down on TikTok’s 75-day reprieve from divesting from its Chinese owners or being banned in the United States, several contenders are in the running. Here’s a look at who could save the app before the April 5 deadline. Elon Musk While Musk hasn’t publicly expressed interest in acquiring TikTok, his $44…
Starting on Saturday night, TikTok, the short-form video app owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, was unavailable in the United States as a result of a new law that banned the company’s apps in the country. By around noon on Sunday, it was back. Though the law calls on ByteDance to sell TikTok to non-Chinese…
As a TikTok ban looms, hundreds of thousands of Americans casting about for a new video-sharing app have migrated to Xiaohongshu, a social media platform that translates as “Little Red Book,” the American nickname for a classic compendium of quotations from Chairman Mao. It has all played out like a global practical joke on the…