Social media users are speculating that Meta has bought TikTok, following Donald Trump's announcement that he planned to delay a ban on the app.

Questions loom over TikTok's future after a U.S. ban went into effect Saturday. Do workarounds like VPNs work? Will it come back? What we know so far.

With a possible ban looming for the popular short-form video app, these stocks are set to gain as companies look to capture TikTok users' screen time.

All these comments from so-called TikTok 'refugees' showed up on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's most recent Instagram post, which was posted shortly after TikTok went dark for American users on Saturday night. The video of a surfing Zuckerberg, which was initially filled with Instagram users lauding his skills, was quickly overrun with angry users.

SAN FRANCISCO — When Ames Doyle began using TikTok in 2022, they were living a drastically different life. Doyle, now 35, had a child with their husband, identified as a woman, dependably voted Democrat and assumed they were neurotypical. Then they started scrolling.

In the "TikTokCringe" subreddit, a video from a RedNote user with red eyes, presumably swollen from tears, suggested that Americans had possibly ruined the app for Chinese Americans who rely on RedNote to stay current on Chinese news and culture.

The Chinese social media app, popular in the United States a week after being flooded by TikTok users, has added language translation features.

After briefly ‘going dark’, TikTok has returned to the screens of users in the US. But the situation remains slippery.

Instagram is reportedly luring TikTok creators over to Reels with bonuses ranging from $10,000 to $50,000, but there’s a catch.

But the model is only meant to be used within China’s mainland, a ByteDance spokesperson told TechCrunch. The e-reader’s China-based manufacturer, Onyx International, which sells Boox e-readers in both China and to the U.

TikTok’s rapid rise, alongside the growth of Amazon, has presented a real challenge to Meta and Google. If TikTok is banned, more than half of the advertising dollars spent on the platform in the US w