TikTok is drawing scrutiny, particularly its role in news production, political messaging and social movements. TikTok has its unique format, algorithmic curation and entertainment-driven design.

TikTok is planning to release a new app in the U.S., according to media reports. President Trump has said a deal is near.

Less than three weeks before the presidential election, TikTok is still struggling to consistently enforce its long-standing ban on political advertising, a new report finds.

In January, TikTok took itself offline for about 14 hours — and app stores removed access to the platform in the United States — after the law’s initial sale-or-ban deadline passed with no deal.

Trump in announcing the extended deadline for a TikTok sale brought up the tariffs and said his administration would continue working with China on a deal.

“I’d like to see TikTok remain alive.” Here’s what we know about what TikTok’s future could look like as the sale-or-ban deadline fast approaches. How did we get here?

TikTok faces a U.S. ban over security concerns, but Trump confirms productive talks on a potential sale.

TikTok was gone for 14 hours. That’s just about the length of a nonstop flight from Hawaii to New York, or a teenager’s Saturday night sleep.

A law requiring TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the app by Jan. 19 or face a total US ban was upheld in US appeals court on Friday – setting up a potential Supreme Court showdown ...

That’s despite the platform’s ban on all political ads in place since 2019. The ads never appeared on TikTok because Global Witness pulled them before they went online.

First, TikTok scoops up data on its 170 million monthly users in the U.S., which could potentially be used to track federal employees or to conduct blackmail or corporate espionage.

TikTok was once the realm of teenagers dancing and cute animal clips. But as the platform has grown in popularity, so too has it’s usefulness as a political too, but there are pitfalls to avoid.