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Regular users of the short-video app TikTok are more likely to subscribe to narratives that favor the Chinese government, according to research published this month in Taiwan. In a public opinion poll ...

Already locked out of online games for much of the week, Chinese teenagers are now further limited in how they can use their free time after popular short-video platform Douyin, the Chinese version of ...

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TikTok is fighting to stay alive in the United States as pressure builds in Washington to ban the app if its Chinese owners don’t sell the company. But the wildly popular platform, developed with ...

Chinese people are increasingly using TikTok’s sister app as a way to complain about products and are finding it a powerful asset. Our research shows that Douyin, which is produced by ByteDance the ...

Apple is leaning into TikTok's massive influence in China by opening a Douyin storefront where fans can buy iPhone and more with Douyin Pay. Douyin is China's version of TikTok — ByteDance, the parent ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing-based ByteDance recently launched its own third-party payment service for Douyin, the Chinese version of its hit short video app TikTok, as it presses to expand into the ...

TikTok's Beijing-based owner was among the companies under pressure this month to get tough on moneymaking stunts after a livestreamer reportedly drank himself to death two weeks ago. China's most ...

The advance of short videos is reshaping how information is created, disseminated and consumed online. Snappy 15-second videos aren’t just for entertainment. On Chinese short-video apps Douyin and ...

A moderation system run by ByteDance staff in China uses word lists to detect or suppress content about everything from TikTok rival YouTube to marginalized Uyghurs to 2024 presidential candidate ...