Adam Aleksic has somehow managed to make linguistics cool. His rapid-fire videos have attracted an audience of millions across the social media universe. A Harvard graduate with a linguistics degree, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. After years of bipartisan warnings about TikTok’s potential national security risks, ...

The White House has answered what had been one of the major outstanding questions regarding its pending deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to a majority American ownership group: Under the ...

There was a report from Bloomberg that China was considering selling Tik Tok USA to Elon Musk X. This was later denied by Tik Tok. Kevin O’leary is part of group that has put up $20 billion to buy ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tech giant Oracle will spearhead U.S. oversight of the algorithm and security underlying TikTok’s video popular platform under the terms of a deal laid out Monday by President Donald ...

The US and China are closing in on a deal to avoid a US ban of TikTok – and it will include China allowing US techies to replicate and replace the wildly popular app’s secret-sauce recommendation ...

The ongoing TikTok-US saga seems close to reaching a conclusion, but we’re not there yet. As details get worked out for a potential Oracle-driven deal, a new Bloomberg report details the plans for ...

Algorithms, which are just sets of instructions expressed in code, are harder to restrict than physical goods. But governments, including the U.S., have long tried to prevent their export. The ...

TikTok’s algorithm favors mental health content over many other topics, including politics, cats and Taylor Swift, according to a Washington Post analysis. At first, the mental health-related videos ...

It was apparently a busy weekend for key players involved in Donald Trump’s efforts to make a deal to save TikTok. Perhaps the most appealing option for ByteDance could be if Trump blessed a merger ...

TikTok Algorithm That Keeps Us Scrolling Remains at Heart of a Deal The TikTok logo on a smartphone. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg By Alexandra S. Levine September 18, 2025 at 4:03 AM PDT ...

TikTok’s future is in limbo as another deadline looms. For some users, nothing has been the same since those 14 hours in January anyway. By Madison Malone Kircher There were jokes. There was despair.