Twitter asked a court on Thursday to stop a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) order concerning the social media platform’s privacy and security practices, citing allegations that an independent auditor felt pressured by the federal agency to dig up “negative'” information.
Published: Monday, July 31st, 2023 @ 5:48 pm
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Meta was slammed Monday by the European Union with a $1.3 billion fine and ordered to cease transferring user data to the United States over privacy concerns.
Published: Tuesday, June 6th, 2023 @ 2:03 pm
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Republican lawmakers asked President Joe Biden to force a divestiture of TikTok to an American firm after the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) concluded that the social media platform poses meaningful national security risks.
Published: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @ 12:28 am
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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew revealed on Thursday that the social media platform has “tens of thousands” of employees dedicated to content moderation.
Published: Thursday, May 11th, 2023 @ 2:13 pm
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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders said Tuesday that state officials plan to file three separate lawsuits against TikTok and Facebook and Instagram owner Meta, accusing the social media giants of pushing addictive and damaging content on children.
Published: Saturday, April 15th, 2023 @ 6:11 pm
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) entered the debate about a nationwide ban on Chinese-owned social media app TikTok.
Published: Thursday, April 13th, 2023 @ 1:44 pm
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U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced Sunday that lawmakers would advance legislation proposing a nationwide ban on TikTok after the video-sharing app’s CEO testified before Congress last week.
Published: Wednesday, April 12th, 2023 @ 11:29 pm
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Officials in China “resolutely oppose” a potential forced sale of social media platform TikTok in the United States from its Chinese parent company, a move that many American lawmakers have floated in response to national security and data privacy issues linked to the company.
Published: Tuesday, April 11th, 2023 @ 6:59 am
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Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed two bills on Thursday that would regulate children’s use of social media, as lawmakers in Congress question TikTok over its effect on kids and national security.
Published: Monday, April 10th, 2023 @ 3:41 pm
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TikTok CEO Refuses To Say Whether Officials At Chinese Parent Company Helped Him Prepare For HearingTikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew neglected to provide a clear answer on whether individuals associated with ByteDance, the social media platform’s Chinese parent company, helped him prepare for a Thursday morning hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Published: Saturday, April 8th, 2023 @ 10:13 pm
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Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) defended social media platform TikTok as lawmakers debate a possible nationwide ban of the app.
Published: Saturday, April 8th, 2023 @ 12:39 am
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The Commerce Department moved to prevent funds allocated by the CHIPS and Science Act from helping with the development of semiconductors in adversarial nations.
Published: Friday, April 7th, 2023 @ 11:07 am
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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew appealed to the 150 million users of the social media platform in the United States as lawmakers consider a forced sale or prohibition.
Published: Monday, April 3rd, 2023 @ 11:37 pm
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TikTok, whose parent company ByteDance is controlled by communist China, is reportedly under federal criminal investigation for surveilling U.S. citizens.
Published: Wednesday, March 29th, 2023 @ 8:16 am
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Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen testified before the U.S. Senate today regarding the state of the banking system. She tried to reassure lawmakers and the public that there’s no cause for concern.
Published: Wednesday, March 29th, 2023 @ 4:58 am
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The Biden administration demanded that ByteDance, the Chinese technology firm which controls social media platform TikTok, sell the vertical video application or face a possible ban in the United States.
Published: Monday, March 27th, 2023 @ 2:16 am
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A former employee of the company that controls TikTok told Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) that members of the Chinese Communist Party can access data from American users of the social media platform.
Published: Thursday, March 16th, 2023 @ 10:24 am
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Why Americans should take note of the serious risk China poses, both via balloons and social media
Published: Sunday, February 19th, 2023 @ 6:14 pm
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Madison Square Garden Entertainment is using facial recognition technology to prevent attorneys from law firms representing clients suing the company from entering iconic venues in New York City.
Published: Monday, February 6th, 2023 @ 12:51 pm
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TikTok officials disclosed negotiation details with U.S. lawmakers in a $1.5 billion plan that would reportedly increase transparency and reorganize how it operates in the U.S. amid national security concerns about the Chinese-owned social media giant.
Published: Monday, January 23rd, 2023 @ 7:49 am
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The China-based parent company of TikTok said Thursday that an internal investigation revealed employees obtained private data of four U.S.-based tech journalists and other American users’ information.
Published: Saturday, January 7th, 2023 @ 1:48 pm
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Finally, lawmakers are taking action against TikTok, the social media platform run by the communist Chinese.
Published: Thursday, January 5th, 2023 @ 4:17 pm
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A former Twitter employee was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison after he was convicted of accepting bribes and providing user data to Saudi Arabia’s Royal Family, the Justice Department announced on Thursday. Senior United States District Judge Edward M. Chen delivered the sentence.
Published: Thursday, December 22nd, 2022 @ 10:29 am
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On Wednesday, Texas became the fourth state to ban TikTok on state-issued devices amid federal officials sounding the alarm that the Chinese-based social media app threatens national security.
Published: Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 @ 1:05 pm
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South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem ordered state government employees to stop using TikTok.
Published: Friday, December 9th, 2022 @ 5:02 am
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House Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio and other GOP lawmakers have reportedly begun drafting a bill prohibiting federal employees from using Tiktok after federal communication officials urged the U.S. government to ban the video-sharing app to protect American citizens’ private data.
Published: Thursday, December 8th, 2022 @ 6:54 am
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FBI Director Christopher Wray told Homeland Security Committee House members Tuesday that the video-sharing app TikTok poses national security threats from the Chinese Communist Party.
Published: Friday, November 25th, 2022 @ 10:29 pm
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, filed suit against Google last week for alleged violations of state law against collecting biometric data without informed consent.
Published: Tuesday, November 1st, 2022 @ 11:06 am
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Members of Congress are deliberating over a bill that would limit the amount of data that technology companies are able to procure from users.
Published: Monday, September 19th, 2022 @ 9:07 am
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Twitter whistleblower and former head of security Peiter Zatko revealed to lawmakers on Tuesday that engineers have access to the plethora of data the social media company collects from users.
Published: Thursday, September 15th, 2022 @ 12:46 am
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Sentenced to 12 years in prison
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2022 @ 3:16 pm
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A group of GOP attorneys general urged Google in a letter not to censor search results in such a way that women would be blocked from seeing results directing them to pro-life pregnancy care centers.
Published: Friday, August 5th, 2022 @ 10:03 am
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After TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew wrote a letter to nine GOP senators who had questioned whether TikTok employees had access to data from U.S. users. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) demanded that TikTok testify before Congress.
Published: Saturday, July 16th, 2022 @ 10:15 am
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As some woke corporations pay for employees’ abortion tourism expenses, a faith-based insurance company in Texas recently announced it would finance maternity and adoption costs for its workers.
Published: Friday, July 15th, 2022 @ 6:05 pm
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