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Post by Admin on Jun 9, 2021 20:55:13 GMT
President Joe Biden withdrew a series of executive orders that sought to ban new downloads of WeChat and TikTok, and ordered a review of security concerns posed by those apps. Former President Donald Trump's TikTok and WeChat bans were officially dropped on Wednesday, but scrutiny of the China-owned apps will continue under the Biden administration. To replace the Trump-era actions, President Biden signed new orders calling for the Commerce Department to launch national security reviews of apps with links to foreign adversaries, including China. The move represents a reset in relations between Washington and TikTok, the hit video-sharing app owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, and WeChat, the popular messaging app run by Shenzhen-based Tencent. But the apps are "not out of the woods yet," said James Lewis, who heads technology policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and has been in discussions with White House officials in both administrations about the future of the apps. "I wouldn't be surprised if you saw a ban reinstated but on more rational grounds," Lewis said. "If I was TikTok, I would be thinking about what do I do to ward off another ban." Biden's executive order mandates accountability measures that TikTok does not currently have, including "reliable third-party auditing" of the app for possible security risk. Under Biden's new order, the Commerce Department will launch an "evidence-based" evaluation of apps with Chinese connections that may pose a security risk and "take action, as appropriate" based on those reviews.
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Post by Admin on Jul 22, 2021 2:31:24 GMT
Her Weight-Loss Video Went Viral On TikTok. Here's What She Learned.
Last November, fitness trainer Lucy Bergin started recording her weight-loss journey, taking a daily image of herself in the same outfit to inspire herself. After losing 35 pounds over six months, she posted the video to TikTok, where it racked up 12 million views. Joining the 3rd Hour of TODAY from Tampa, she says, “I just kept telling myself that it wasn’t a short-term goal.”
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Post by Admin on Nov 10, 2021 21:08:58 GMT
Mom Who Went Viral On TikTok Talks About Running In NYC Marathon
A 37-year-old mom of three from Pennsylvania who decided to train for a marathon gathered hundreds of thousands of followers on TikTok cheering her on. Now Erin Azar visits TODAY live to talk about how she did in Sunday’s New York City marathon. “It was surreal. I didn’t even think it was happening,” she says. “And then there were buckets of tears.”
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Post by Admin on Mar 30, 2022 19:53:57 GMT
Facebook’s parent company has been paying a Republican consulting firm to sow panic and distrust of rival social platform TikTok, according to The Washington Post.
Internal emails seen by the Post reportedly show employees of Targeted Victory plotting to use the media and a lobbying campaign to turn parents against the popular Chinese-owned app. Employees of the consulting firm were urged to “get the message out that while Meta is the current punching bag, TikTok is the real threat especially as a foreign owned app that is #1 in sharing data that young teens are using” in one email from a director in February, the Post reports.
Another director is said to have floated the idea of using a local political reporter as a “backchannel” for spreading opposition to TikTok in a different email. Targeted Victory confirmed to the Post that the firm had worked for Meta for several years but declined to provide details on the anti-TikTok campaign, saying only that it was “proud of the work we have done.” A Meta spokesperson also confirmed the campaign, telling the Post: “We believe all platforms, including TikTok, should face a level of scrutiny consistent with their growing success.”
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Post by Admin on May 12, 2022 10:13:05 GMT
NY Times admits Trump was right about this 435,614 views May 11, 2022 FOX Business' Maria Bartiromo, Dagen McDowell, Maslansky+Partners Presidents Lee Carter and Disruptive Tech Research founder Lou Basenese discuss The New York Times article about the potential dangers of TikTok.
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