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Mar 13 2024
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Thriving Michigan businesses using TikTok to help with clientele react to potential ban
(CBS DETROIT) - TikTok estimates that about 5 million businesses use the platform to reach customers. Would businesses locally see a decline if the ban is enacted? Some say yes. Whether or not TikTok will stay on your phone is reaching new levels. With the Senate eyeing a bill to ban it, it puts users on edge, especially ones that use the app as their bread and butter. "Before TikTok, my
CBS News (Online)Mar 19 2024
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White House wants TikTok's parent company to divest: 'We don't want to see a ban'
The White House on Sunday reiterated support for a controversial bill meant to cut China's ties to TikTok by forcing the popular app's Chinese parent company to sell it -- or face a ban in the U.S.
At the same time, White House national security communications adviser John Kirby said on ABC News' "This Week," the administration acknowledges the concerns of many American users.
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ABC News (Online)Mar 08 2024
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Furious Congress plows forward with TikTok bill after user revolt
Members of Congress are being flooded with calls from angry constituents after TikTok launched a new campaign warning its users that the Chinese-owned app was at risk of being shut down in the U.S.
Why it matters: A key House committee voted unanimously Thursday afternoon to advance bipartisan legislation that would force ByteDance — TikTok's Chinese parent company — to divest its
AxiosMar 20 2024
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TikTokers find ‘great lead’ in Riley Strain’s Nashville vanishing as city hunts for missing student: friend
Two TikTok users assisting with the search for missing college student Riley Strain found his credit card near the Cumberland River in Nashville while they were livestreaming, according to a spokesperson for the Strain family. TikTok users @nobodyleftbehind13 and @annaclendening were filming their search live from Nashville on TikTok along with a third user who helped organize the stream, @
Fox News (Online News)Mar 20 2024
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Booming: Seattle's 15-minute makeover, TikTokers fear ban, what's missing from your neighborhood
Seattle leaders have a plan to turn NIMBYs into YIMBYs. They're betting they can get residents to say "yes in my backyard" to growth if Seattle becomes a 15-minute city. That means changing laws so that everything you need is a 15-minute walk, bike, or bus ride from your home. This week on Booming, we travel to Georgetown, which could become a 15-minute neighborhood under Seattle's new
KUOWMar 13 2024
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New England business owner says TikTok ban would threaten her success
PENATE. SHE CONTINUES THE STORY. SHE’S LIVE RIGHT NOW. JEN. YEAH, THIS IS A MASSIVE WAREHOUSE OF A LOCAL BOUTIQUE. ITS OWNER SAYS TIKTOK HELPED GROW IT EXPONENTIALLY IN JUST ONE YEAR, AND NOW A POTENTIAL BAN OF THE APP COULD THREATEN ITS SUCCESS. THESE ARE A MUST HAVE. A TIKTOK VIDEO ON A PAIR OF JEANS GONE VIRAL. FOREVER CHANGE MICHELLE SILVAS SMALL BUSINESS CARLY ROSE BOUTIQUE. WE’VE GONE
WCVBMar 13 2024
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Oklahoma Congressmen back bill curbing foreign surveillance through apps like TikTok
FOX 25 KOKHMar 24 2024
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Migrant TikTok influencer probed by child services and admits he tried Canada first —but it didn’t give handouts
The TikTok influencer who encouraged “fellow Venezuelans” to squat in American homes is being probed by child services after using his baby daughter in his guides to scamming and begging.
Moreno shot to infamy telling his 507,000 TikTok followers, “If a house is not inhabited, we can seize it.”
And on Friday he doubled down, repeating the same message, calling squatting “the
New York Post (News)Mar 08 2024
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Biden says he would sign TikTok crackdown; Trump raises concerns
President Joe Biden said on Friday he would sign legislation that gives China's ByteDance about six months to divest the popular TikTok short video app as his rival Donald Trump raised concerns about a ban of the service used by 170 million Americans.
The U.S. House of Representatives plans to vote next week on the TikTok crackdown bill after a committee on Thursday unanimously approved
ReutersMar 15 2024
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Las Vegas TikTok influencers say congressional bill would harm small businesses, entrepreneurs
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - A group of notable Las Vegas content creators weighed in on the impact of the TikTok bill making its way through Congress. They voice concerns over the far-reaching impact on entrepreneur incomes and small businesses across the Las Vegas valley if the bill is passed. Influencers, content creators, social media managers and businesses voice concerns about a worst-case
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