Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities global head of tech research, joins CNBC's 'The Exchange' to discuss the looming TikTok ban in ...
Several parties have expressed interest in buying the platform, but ByteDance has repeatedly said it does not plan to sell.
Starting in 2017, when the Chinese social video app merged with its competitor Musical.ly, TikTok has grown from a niche teen ...
The inherent special sauce for TikTok is this algorithm,” said social media expert Ashleigh Shay. “Which ByteDance has gone ...
An executive from Chinese social media giant ByteDance played down the role of its content-recommendation algorithms in ...
TikTok has become a cesspool of conspiracy theories and misinformation as wildfires continue to devastate the Los Angeles region, and evidence suggests TikTok’s algorithm launched them into ...
That comes after a unanimous ruling by the Supreme Court on Friday to uphold a federal law banning TikTok unless it's sold by ...
What we're talking about is ideas,” Francisco said in his rebuttal, dismissing national security concerns that the TikTok algorithm could be used to manipulate Americans. “That whole notion is ...
it would only be the U.S. portion of the platform and would not include TikTok's lucrative algorithm, which China sees as its intellectual property. Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta and ...
Noel Francisco, a TikTok lawyer, said that while it would be a bad business decision for the company to choose not to use ByteDance’s algorithm as a matter of course, it can still refuse China's ...
"The algorithm is a lot of things," Francisco responded. "It's basically how we predict what our customers want to see." Francisco said that TikTok could choose to abandon the algorithm ...