Douyin, the Chinese equivalent of TikTok, is very different and "much more pro-social," NYU professor Jonathan Haidt told Business Insider in Davos.
The CEO of investment firm General Atlantic, a board member of TikTok's parent company, said on Thursday that he was optimistic that a deal to keep the short-video app operating in the United States would be agreed.
TikTok was restored in the US after Trump (then the president-elect) said he would issue an executive order following his inauguration to extend the period before the law took effect. He signed that order Monday.
ByteDance (BDNCE) board member Bill Ford said the TikTok parent is exploring a deal to keep the short video app running in America without selling its operations there. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos Thursday,
President’s Oval Office chat with Fox host covers everything from pardoning of January 6 defendants to the future of TikTok and Los Angeles wildfires
In 2017, weeks after Donald Trump’s first presidential election victory, Xi Jinping became the first Chinese head of state to address the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland — winning applause as he inveighed against protectionism and declared that a trade war would hurt both sides.
The blocking of TikTok came less than a month after a 14-year-old student was killed. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The never-ending saga of the TikTok ban continues, with a ByteDance board member suggesting that a compromise would be
Reich also criticises Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship - where anyone born in the US becomes a citizen - saying it's a violation of the US constitution: "Decent people could lose their citizenship... children could lose their parents...some parents may not have the right papers."
As business titans and world leaders gathered Monday in Davos, Switzerland, for the opening of the annual World Economic Forum, all eyes were on President Donald Trump ’s taking power again in Washington.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is launching a crusade against what he sees as the downsides of social media.