Category: TikTok

NTD News Today (March 24): Parents testify on ‘Domestic Terrorist’ label; ‘Moms against TikTok’ stage protest outside Congress

Fed-up parents gave heated testimony on Capitol Hill yesterday. They want the Department of Justice to stop labeling them as domestic terrorists. ‘Moms Against Tiktok’ staged a protest outside the U.S. Capitol Thursday. They are calling for an immediate ban on the app. A former transgender teen is suing her doctors. She says medical experts…


Meta Sued Over Youth Addiction to Social Media

The San Mateo County Board of Education is suing Facebook’s parent company, Meta, claiming that CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s company has contributed to the mental health crisis among youths by intentionally designing its social media platform to be manipulative and addictive. The Board of Education added Meta to a complaint it filed on March 13 in the U.S. District…


TikTok in the Crosshairs of Congress

Commentary Ask the average youth about what he watches on TikTok and he is most likely to mention funny videos of animals, pranks, dancing, experiments, and food. The top posts on TikTok get hundreds of millions of views. But ask an average member of the U.S. House of Representatives, though none are really average, and…


‘TikTok Should Be Banned’: Lawmakers Grill Tiktok CEO

TikTok’s CEO was grilled on Capitol Hill Thursday, and said the app is not a national security threat to the United States. Lawmakers were not convinced. From children dead after viral challenges to millions of young Americans vying to keep the app, TikTok is back under scrutiny. To ban or not to ban is still…


Capitol Report: TikTok Faces Bipartisan Scrutiny on Capitol Hill; 2nd Amendment Rights in Question

Is TikTok’s time up? Capitol Hill lawmakers grilled the platform CEO Thursday. He denies the company’s ties to the Chinese regime, and both Democrats and Republicans aren’t buying it. Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) joins us to weigh in on the TikTok threat and President Joe Biden’s $6.8 trillion budget bill. Debates intensify over spending. Biden…


LIVE 6:30 PM ET: NTD Evening News (March 23): Lawmakers Skeptical as TikTok CEO Denies China Ties; Trump Grand Jury Won’t Meet Until Next Week

Members of Congress and TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew engaged in a series of heated exchanges over the app’s ties to China’s communist regime at a House hearing on TikTok’s data privacy practices on Mar. 23. Crossroads Host Joshua Philipp tells NTD’s Stefania Cox that Shou’s promises should not be trusted. The Manhattan grand jury…


NTD Evening News (March 23): Lawmakers Skeptical as TikTok CEO Denies China Ties; Trump Grand Jury Won’t Meet Until Next Week

Members of Congress and TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew engaged in a series of heated exchanges over the app’s ties to China’s communist regime at a House hearing on TikTok’s data privacy practices on March 23. Crossroads host Joshua Philipp tells NTD’s Stefania Cox that Shou’s promises should not be trusted. The Manhattan grand jury…


TikTok Part of CCP’s ‘Asymmetric Warfare’ Against US: Rep. Cammack

Social media giant TikTok is a tool in communist China’s strategy to undermine and displace the United States, according to a bipartisan group of lawmakers. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew appeared before a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee for the first time ever on March 23, in an attempt to defend the…


TikTok CEO Refuses to Say Whether CCP Has Persecuted Uyghurs

The CEO of the viral Chinese-owned app TikTok on March 23 refused to take a position on China’s human rights record, saying that his platform alllows users to “freely express their views on this issue.” “Congresswoman, if you use our app, and you open it, you will find our users who give all sorts of…


Scotland Bans TikTok on Government Mobile Phones and Devices Over Spy Fears

The Scottish government has placed an immediate ban on the use of social media app TikTok from its mobile phones and corporate devices over Chinese spying fears. The move, announced on Thursday afternoon, came moments after the UK government said it was expanding its own device and phone ban of the Chinese video-sharing platform to include…