The move could open the door to resolving years of debate over whether the company would share what is considered the crown ...

An ex-employee of ByteDance said it tried to build an algorithm for censoring Uighur-language livestreams. They said it would have been for removing content from Douyin, TikTok's Chinese sister app.

As the deadline for a forced sale or shutdown of the U.S. operations of the TikTok video-sharing app fast approaches, ByteDance is said to have decided its algorithm won't be part of any sale that ...

P rivate equity company Blackstone has reportedly exited a consortium that was preparing to invest in the US operations of ...

Under a US law, TikTok must be sold or banned in the US by September 17. Trump appears to have been stuck in a tough spot all ...

Under the law, a post-sale US TikTok couldn’t continue working with ByteDance to operate the algorithm or share user data.

ByteDance used content from other platforms to create fake accounts on Flipagram, BuzzFeed reported. They began the practice in 2017 to train its personalization algorithm for US users.

An executive from Chinese social media giant ByteDance played down the role of its content-recommendation algorithms in creating so-called filter bubbles, as the company faces intense scrutiny ...

U.S. authorities have to be concerned that ByteDance, by deluging Oracle with daily blizzards, is trying to insert malicious changes to the all-important algorithm.

Less than a month after extending a deadline to ban TikTok for the third time, President Donald Trump told reporters late Friday night that, “We pretty much have a deal,” on TikTok — but he did ...

The new US-only app is designed to function independently, and users from outside the US will not find the American version ...