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Apple and TikTok Refuse to Testify to US Congress About Their Business in China
Both companies are facing growing scrutiny over their ties to China.
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.
Yandex Zen Sets Its Sights on Being a YouTube Competitor
The Yandex video service lets bloggers upload videos on Yandex Zen that must be under 15 minutes long, which then get recommended based on established user preferences.
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.
Facebook and Instagram App Downloads Are in Decline
Data provided by the Bank of America that shows a 13% year over year decline in the downloads of Facebook and Instagram mobile apps.
New Report Shows That Facebook Feared Apple and Google’s Mobile Internet Dominance
The report covers Project Oxygen – a plan Facebook started working on in 2013 to protect itself from Google’s virtual chokehold over Facebook’s mobile internet distribution through the Google Play Store.
The Fastest-Growing Worldwide App TikTok Just Got Banned in India
They said the app was encouraging users to produce pornographic and otherwise elicit content.