TikTok

TikTok deal forms new US unit with investors Oracle, Silver Lake

December 27, 2025 Barbara Ortutay

SAN FRANCISCO — TikTok has signed agreements with three major investors — Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX — to form a new TikTok U.S. joint venture, ensuring the popular social video platform can continue operating […]

From meat processing plant to country music stardom, Bailey Zimmerman is figuring it out

August 10, 2025 Maria Sherman

NEW YORK — His is a Cinderella story. Before the big tours and country music award nominations, Bailey Zimmerman was growing up in the small town of Louisville, Illinois, working at the local meat processing […]

New bid for TikTok from Perplexity AI could give US government 50% stake

February 1, 2025 Haleluya Hadero and Christopher Rugaber

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Perplexity AI has presented a new proposal to TikTok’s parent company that would allow the U.S. government to own up to 50% of a new entity that merges Perplexity with TikTok’s U.S. […]

Lawsuit: TikTok aware of risks kids, teens face on platform

October 20, 2024 The Associated Press

TikTok was aware that its design features are detrimental to its young users and that publicly touted tools aimed at limiting kids’ time on the site were largely ineffective, according to internal documents and communications […]

DOJ sues TikTok over illegal data collection from minors

August 11, 2024 The Associated Press

The Justice Department sued TikTok last Friday, accusing the company of violating children’s online privacy law and violating a settlement it had reached with another federal agency. The complaint, filed together with the Federal Trade […]

Social media companies made $11 billion in US ad revenue from minors, Harvard study finds

January 4, 2024 The Associated Press

Social media companies collectively made over $11 billion in U.S. advertising revenue from minors last year, according to a study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health published last week. The researchers say […]

Rep Wiley Nickel, who says Congressional office doesn’t use TikTok, faces ethics complaint over app

April 12, 2023 Matt Mercer

RALEIGH — Freshman Democratic Rep. Wiley Nickel (NC-13) told North State Journal at a town hall event his office doesn’t use TikTok and said there are concerns about online privacy that are bigger than the […]

Members of Congress on TikTok defend app’s reach to voters

April 6, 2023 Farnoush Amiri, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As pressure against TikTok mounts in Washington, D.C., more than two dozen members of Congress — all Democrats — who are active on the social media platform are being pushed by their […]

Budd backs bill to ban TikTok

March 8, 2023 Matt Mercer

RALEIGH — U.S. Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC) has cosponsored a bill that would prohibit Chinese-based social media app TikTok from being downloaded and used commercially on all U.S. devices. S.85, the No TikTok on United […]

Cooper joins govs banning TikTok on state devices

January 18, 2023 North State Journal Staff

RALEIGH — Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper became the latest state executive to ban the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok in an executive order late last week. Several government entities in the United States, including multiple branches […]