ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, is developing a backup plan as it faces a deadline to sell its US operations or risk a

TikTok's owner, ByteDance, has plans to move Americans to a US-specific version of CapCut as it looks to meet requirements for a divest-or-ban law.

The TikTok US-only app strategy centers on creating an independent recommendation system that would operate entirely apart from ByteDance’s global infrastructure. The new app is expected to use only data from US users to train its recommendation algorithms, further distancing it from TikTok’s global systems, according to the SCMP report.

TikTok has denied a Reuters report claiming it's building a standalone U.S. app with a separate algorithm. TikTok is pushing back against a Reuters report that claims the company is working on a standalone version of its app for the U.S. market, complete with a separate algorithm and data infrastructure.

TikTok is facing a fresh European Union privacy investigation into user data sent to China, regulators said Thursday. The Data Protection Commission opened the inquiry as a follow up

Only a couple of months after it fined TikTok $620 million, Ireland's data protection regulator is once again seeking to determine if the platform breached the GDPR.

Is ByteDance releasing a new TikTok app?Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. ByteDance is reportedly launching a version of TikTok that will be based in and operated from America,

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A Manhattan mom whose 15-year-old son died while subway surfing can move forward with a lawsuit against the social media companies that she says helped to popularize the dangerous trend, a state judge has ruled.

In April, the video sharing platform was hit with a €530 million fine. View on euronews

TikTok and its parent company ByteDance, will lay off more than 60 employees from its Bellevue office. The two submitted separate state Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notifications (WARN) on Monday.

A now-deleted report by GeekPark claimed ByteDance had approved a sale to an Oracle-led group, retaining a minority stake. However, ByteDance has not confirmed this, and the report has been scrubbed from Chinese platforms.