A Professor Put Her Class on TikTok. Thousands Enrolled in a Digital H.B.C.U.
Leah Barlow, a liberal studies professor at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, prepared to teach her Intro to African American Studies class this semester as she always does:…
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TikTok True Crime to Stream: ‘Dancing for the Devil’ and More
TikTok continues to be on shaky ground in the United States. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court upheld a law passed by Congress last year that required a ban of…
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In the TikTok Show ‘Famehungry,’ All the World’s an Audience
“If you get me to 20,000 likes, I’ll do something amazing.” That is what the performance artist Louise Orwin promises audiences in “Famehungry,” a TikTok-set existential crisis about being an…
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How Trump Shifted Policy in Week 1, on Immigration, DEI and More
President Trump’s blunt message after a whirlwind week of executive orders and presidential proclamations may boil down to this: Take me at my word. During four years in political exile…
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U.S. Ban of TikTok Is Set to Deal a Major Blow to ByteDance, Its Chinese Owner
The ban of TikTok in the United States is set to create a glaring hole in social media. For ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company in China, it also could create a…
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TikTok Refugees Get Wry Welcome on RedNote, Another Chinese App
Follow live updates on the Supreme Court ruling against TikTok. As a TikTok ban looms, hundreds of thousands of Americans casting about for a new video-sharing app have migrated to…
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What We Know About the TikTok Ban
Starting on Saturday night, TikTok, the short-form video app owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, was unavailable in the United States as a result of a new law that banned…
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TikTok Got a Reprieve, but Americans and Chinese Are Still on RedNote
TikTok got an apparent reprieve from being forced to shut down, but Americans on Monday were still using and downloading Xiaohongshu, the Chinese social media app that surged in popularity…
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TikTok, RedNote and the Crushed Promise of the Chinese Internet
The Chinese social media app RedNote is full of cute, heartwarming moments after about 500,000 American users fled to it last week to protest the looming U.S. government ban on…
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TikTok Starts Working Again After Trump Says He Will Stall a Ban
TikTok flickered back to life in the United States on Sunday after President-elect Donald J. Trump said that he would issue an executive order to stall a federal ban of…
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TikTok Makes Last-Minute Push as Supreme Court Is Poised to Rule on Ban
Follow live updates on the Supreme Court ruling against TikTok. As the Supreme Court was poised on Friday to announce its landmark decision on whether to uphold a law that…
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TikTok Starts Going Dark in the U.S.
“Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now,” the message read. Hours before a federal law banning TikTok from the United States was set to take effect on Sunday, the Chinese-owned social…
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Instagram and YouTube Prepare to Benefit From a TikTok Ban
On Wednesday afternoon, executives at Meta held a Q&A session with some of its employees about the state of American politics. Alex Schultz, the chief marketing officer, addressed questions about…
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What Trump Could Do on Ukraine, Iran, China and Crises Around the Globe
Putting aside that argument, there are certainly some diplomatic opportunities Mr. Trump can seize, though history and ominous recent warnings suggest that he may soften up his adversaries and his…
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How TikTok Evaded a Ban Again and Again, Until Now
In mid-2023, TikTok had just eluded an effort in Congress to ban the video app, the latest Houdini-like escape for the young tech company. For several years, during both Republican…
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Trump Is Said to Consider Executive Order to Circumvent TikTok Ban
President-elect Donald J. Trump is considering an executive order to allow TikTok to continue operating despite a pending legal ban until new owners are found, according to a person with…
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Why TikTok Users Are Downloading ‘Red Note,’ the Chinese App
Manimatana Lee spent the past five years building one of the hottest commodities on the internet: a group of people who reliably watch her videos on TikTok. She built an…
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4 Takeaways From the Arguments Before the Supreme Court in the TikTok Case
The Supreme Court on Friday grappled over a law that could determine the fate of TikTok, an enormously popular social media platform that has about 170 million users. Congress enacted…
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Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Law That Could Shut Down TikTok
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Friday on the fate of TikTok, the enormously popular video app that Congress says poses a looming threat to the nation’s security. Unless…
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TikTok Creators and Brands Are Bracing for a Potential Ban
The impending disappearance of TikTok, one of the most popular social media apps in the United States, has sent marketers, agencies and creators racing to embrace alternatives — even if…
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