The fake highlights how trolls and liars can use computer tools to muddle the truth about mass shootings.
Author: Drew Harwell
TikTok admits it banned former NBA player critical of China
The ban of Enes Kanter Freedom lasted 12 days, until TikTok’s CEO was being grilled on Capitol Hill.
This dissident uses Chinese-owned TikTok to criticize China’s government
Kim Wong’s TikTok videos highlight the complicated reality of the push to ban one of the United States’ most popular apps.
Shou Zi Chew’s ‘death wish’ mission: Defend TikTok on Capitol Hill
The app’s chief executive helped invest in the Chinese engineers who founded its parent company. Now, he’s a lonely defender of one of Washington’s most pummeled punching bags.
New Senate bill would give Commerce a more direct route to ban TikTok
The bill marks the federal government’s latest attempt to resolve a standoff with TikTok, the wildly popular short-video app owned by the Chinese company ByteDance.
FBI, Pentagon helped research facial recognition for street cameras, drones
Hundreds of pages of records chronicle the FBI’s years-long attempt to upgrade its facial recognition capabilities to match those deployed in China and Britain.
TikTok’s CEO among least trusted executives in D.C. He’s fighting back.
After months of virtual silence, TikTok’s chief executive, Shou Zi Chew, is preparing for the fight of his professional life, meeting with members of Congress and state governors as part of an aggressive push to prove the wildly popular Chinese-owned a…
How the Chinese spy balloon drama played out on Chinese-owned TikTok
Despite concern China will use TikTok to push Chinese propaganda, TikTok’s recommendation algorithm sent millions of viewers to videos that showed one of China’s most embarassing geopolitical blunders.
Harvard is shutting down project that studied social media misinformation
The Technology and Social Change Project, which has published research into the spread of coronavirus hoaxes and online incitement ahead of Jan. 6 Capitol riot, will be eliminated in 2024.
As panicked states and colleges ban TikTok, students roll their eyes
It’s not clear whether the bans are anything more than political grandstanding, given that the number of devices covered in each state is relatively minuscule.