Researchers fear TikTok is softening Taiwanese youth's stance on China with pro-China content; a report says 22% of Taiwan's population uses TikTok or Douyin
Kathrin Hille / Financial Times :
Douyin, Pinduoduo, and Xiaohongshu vow to improve their algorithms, after China launched a campaign in November 2024 to address “typical issues with algorithms”
ByteDance's Douyin, PDD's Pinduoduo, and Xiaohongshu have promised to address issues related to the misuse of algorithms
Content creators are posting videos on Douyin giving Chinese migrants step-by-step instructions on how to get to the United States through Latin America
Xiong learned how to travel the path to the United States from Latin America through a community of migrants on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.
Chinese social platforms like Weibo and Douyin require popular users to reveal their real names, forcing some influencers to either cull their followers or quit
Chinese social platforms like Weibo and Douyin require popular users to reveal their real names, forcing some influencers to either cull their followers or quit
Caiwei Chen / Rest of World : X: @caiweic and @xuhulk X: Caiwei Chen / @caiweic : Chinese influencers are mass blocking their fans, if not quitting social media at all to get away with the new social...
Blued, China's largest gay dating app, plans to expand to Southeast Asia and the US in a bid to take on Grindr, while facing censorship and competition in China
Rest of World : X: @violazhouyi , @violazhouyi , @violazhouyi , @violazhouyi , and @danreast X: Viola Zhou / @violazhouyi : Blued is looking to compete with Grindr and others by offering social funct...
TikTok's playbook to win DC's trust, like touring its Transparency and Accountability Center in California, echoes Huawei's unsuccessful US and Europe strategy
and Some Want to Ban It Entirely Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times : Democrat Senator Michael Bennet calls on Apple and Google to ban TikTok from their app stores Makena Kelly / The Verge : Apple and ...