TikTok has begun to require “mandatory verification” for political accounts based in the United States and will be prohibiting all political fundraising on its short-video platform, the ...

TikTok will begin requiring accounts belonging to U.S. government departments, politicians and political parties to be verified and will ban videos aimed at campaign fundraising, the short-form ...

Political accounts will also be ineligible for TikTok’s Creator Fund, as well as being unable to access ad features by default. A spokeswoman for the company said the changes are designed to ...

The content creator loophole. TikTok banned paid political ads on its platform in 2019, but according to Reuters, content creators became a “loophole” that campaign strategists could exploit ...

TikTok has banned all political advertising on the app since 2019, but that hasn’t stopped advertisers from running what appear to be paid political messages on the platform.. NBC News found 52 ...

Meanwhile, in January, Trump signed an executive order granting TikTok a 75-day extension to complete a sale or face a ban in the US. This deadline has created urgency in the negotiations between ...

A political advocacy group connected to former Vice President Mike Pence is pressuring Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to hold a vote on a bill that could ban TikTok. Advancing Americ… ...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Monday that he expects to see TikTok sold under President-elect Trump, as the incoming president has vowed to protect the app. “Well, the statute allowed for a 90… ...

TikTok was gone for 14 hours. That’s just about the length of a nonstop flight from Hawaii to New York, or a teenager’s Saturday night sleep.

Our study is based on a massive dataset of over 16 million TikTok videos from more than 160,000 public accounts between 2019 and 2023. We saw a spike of political TikTok videos during the 2020 U.S ...

One of the key factors behind successful political engagement on TikTok is authenticity. The platform thrives on genuine, relatable content. Politicians who can showcase a more human side tend to ...