Pakistan Rescinds TikTok Ban
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Just 10 days after introducing a ban on TikTok[1], the Pakistani authorities said on Monday that they were reversing the decision after receiving assurance from the Chinese-owned…
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Pakistan Bans TikTok, Citing Morals. Others Cite Politics.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan has become the latest country to ban TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media platform, in a move that government critics said stemmed as much from politics as…
U.S. Judge Hears Arguments on Trump’s TikTok Ban
The Trump administration on Sunday fought an attempt to delay its ban of the wildly popular app TikTok that is scheduled to take effect at midnight, telling a federal judge…
TikTok Files for Injunction to Stop Ban of App
SAN FRANCISCO — TikTok, the short-form viral video app, asked for a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration on Wednesday, a legal maneuver aimed at protecting the company’s service in…
TikTok and WeChat: What They Tell Us About the Global Internet
On Sunday, millions of phones across the United States buzzed with a peculiar notification: “TikTok is here to stay!” The alert led to a video post[1] by TikTok’s interim global…
TikTok Deal with Oracle and Walmart Trips Over U.S.-China Feud
WASHINGTON — A deal intended to address the Trump administration’s concerns about TikTok’s ties to China was complicated on Monday by a disagreement over whether a U.S. company would control…
U.S. Judge Temporarily Halts Trump’s WeChat Ban
WASHINGTON — A federal judge has issued an injunction against President Trump’s executive order effectively banning the Chinese social media app[1] WeChat from operating in the United States after midnight…
Trump Approves Deal Between Oracle and TikTok
WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Saturday that he had approved a deal between the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok and major American companies, an agreement that will delay the…
After Trump’s TikTok Ban, China Readies Blacklist of Foreign Companies
BEIJING — As the United States and China trade blows over technology, Beijing on Saturday moved to create a blacklist of foreign companies seen as threatening its national security or…
‘It’s So Essential’: WeChat Ban Makes U.S.-China Standoff Personal
Every day for nearly five years, Juliet Shen’s 94-year-old grandmother in Shanghai has begun her day with a WeChat message to her 40 children and grandchildren scattered across the globe.…
