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TikTok is facing a national security investigation and review after privacy and censorship concerns
Congress has been increasingly skeptical about the app and its Chinese ownership.
TikTok says it’s not censoring content on behalf of the Chinese government
TikTok has been accused of censoring on behalf of China and has raised national security concerns in the US Congress.
Report finds evidence of TikTok censorship
ByteDance said the original goal was to not censorship – but preventing “conflict” from the real world spilling over to the platform.
Chinese TikTok introduces face search
TikTok – the global version – and the app’s version for the Chinese market that is now launching this advertising feature, known as Douyin – are both the product of one of China’s own “Big Tech” companies, namely, ByteDance.
TikTok accused of censoring content about Hong Kong protests
Yaqiu Wang, a Hong Kong-based researcher for Human Rights Watch, said the Hong Kong protests marked one of the first big tests of how Chinese companies could project the government’s dogmas to a global audience.
On the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Chinese censorship by AI is at an all time high
It’s been 30 years since the fateful event.
Not too big to fail – Baidu, China’s search giant, reports losses
Could something similar happen to Google eventually?