TikTok bans content based on hateful ideologies: 380,000 videos removed, 1300 accounts blocked

The short-video app also deleted 64,000 comments for being hateful, the company said.

TikTok initiates measures to communicate its side of the story to the American public

The company, owned by China-based ByteDance, also launched a new @tiktok_comms Twitter account to address issues in real time.

The order states that ByteDance must sell its interest in the karaoke video US app Musical.ly that it bought and merged with TikTok.

Where India could have leverage with China is not in manipulating ByteDance’s revenues but if it got into the semiconductor space.

As the President's executive order prohibits any transaction by any person with TikTok, its US employees stand to lose their jobs.

Moj says its focus is on building and expanding the creator ecosystem, with the help of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Twitter’s bid is a long shot, but it believes it would face less antitrust scrutiny than larger corporations such as Microsoft.

China’s restrictions on foreign tech firms helped nurture homegrown tech giants. Now the US is putting its own limits on China.

Trump’s order appears to formalise his threat to shut down TikTok unless Microsoft or some other American company buys it by September 15.

Analysts say the deal could result in data nationalism and have far-reaching effects.