Congress passed, and the Supreme Court upheld, a 2024 law requiring TikTok’s divestment from ByteDance, or a U.S. ban, making corporate control and algorithm access central national security concerns.

Algorithms, which are just sets of instructions expressed in code, are harder to restrict than physical goods. But governments, including the U.S., have long tried to prevent their export. The ...

An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named ...

Add DMNews to your Google News feed. Tension: Our sense of identity meets the algorithm’s curated version of who we are. Noise: The endless scroll amplifies a digital echo chamber, distorting our self ...

TikTok’s fate in the U.S. has never been more in doubt after Congress approved a bill that gives its parent company two options: sell it to an approved buyer or see it banned. President Joe Biden ...

Well, it seems TikTok is here to stay. An agreement was reached last week between Trump and China to keep the highly popular app on US phones, and the deal outlined is now said to greatly benefit ...