Is the Trump Administration Really Going to Ban TikTok in America?

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty In the span of a single week, the video sharing platform TikTok suffered a series of public blows, crescendoing Friday into an all-out panic…

TikTok Stars Race to Land Reality Shows

Members of the Hype House. (Bryant Eslava, via Hype House via The New York Times) Late Monday night, a group of male TikTok stars who belong to the Gen Z…

Amazon mistakenly tells workers to take TikTok app off phones

Amazon on Friday said it mistakenly sent workers an email telling them to dump the TikTok mobile application from their cell phones because of security concerns. The internal message told…

Amazon tells workers to take TikTok app off phones: report

Amazon workers were given a Friday deadline to dump the TikTok mobile application because of unspecified security concerns, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The e-commerce colossus told workers…

Trump’s threat to ban TikTok might be legal, but it’s super shady

The answer to that question is a resounding, “well, it’s complicated.” But before we jump into that legal briar patch, let’s take a quick look at the company that has…

Meet Zhang Yiming, the secretive Chinese billionaire behind TikTok who made over $12 billion in 2018 and called Trump’s demands to sell the app ‘unreasonable’

ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming makes his own TikToks — and requires his senior employees to as well. Visual China Group via Getty Images; Ruobing Su/Business Insider Zhang Yiming built a…

There is still no proof TikTok is spying on you for China

TikTok, the app beloved by Generation Z, might get booted out of the US. Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images The Trump administration is forcing TikTok to sell off its US business by…

How Noah Schnapp Balances ‘Stranger Things,’ TikTok Fame and ‘Regular Childhood Life’

For Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood issue, we interviewed TikTok stars about their lives in quarantine. Noah Schnapp goes to a regular school with normal people and cringes when his…