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China has been way ahead of the west in seeing the dangers of raising a generation of zombies
Select committee leaders say action needed to combat risk of China influencing UK affairs and democratic elections
Creators of sham content are finding a profitable home on various platforms
Pace of US deglobalisation is accelerating, with sometimes dubious motives
Videos of people resigning or being made redundant are going viral on social media in bid for workplace transparency
US Congress took a first step this week to forcing the app’s Chinese owner to sell it off. Can the company fight back?
A serious bill would restrict the sale of data collected by any social media app, regardless of who owns it
Parent company ByteDance on track to become world’s biggest social media group with $120bn in global sales
One idea under discussion would be to take voting control of the popular video app
From geopolitical risk to capricious US decision-making, investors face uncertain times
Beijing urges Washington to ‘stop unfairly suppressing foreign companies’
Americans account for 14% of users but their revenue contribution will be higher
The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times
Video app enlists support from its base to fight back against latest effort to separate it from Chinese parent
Measure passes with bipartisan support despite intense lobbying and will now head to Senate
President backs legislation a day after his predecessor Donald Trump came out against it
House committee approves bipartisan legislation after briefing on data risks to American users
Meta-owned platform’s push into short-form video bears fruit while TikTok’s explosive growth begins to ease
Bipartisan legislation comes amid growing national security concerns tied to its Chinese owner
Talks stumble over money, copyright and use of artificial intelligence
Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI agree at Munich Security Conference to stifle content designed to mislead voters
Lawsuit from former global marketing head criticises corporate culture at popular app owned by China’s ByteDance
The retailers quickest at bringing popular designs to market are grabbing more market share
Music group accuses social media platform of ‘bullying’ and vows to let contract expire on January 31
The TikTok trend swept through living rooms this year, splitting households down gender lines
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