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Latest news and updates on TikTok, the globally popular social media platform. The app, which merged with Musical.ly in 2018, lets users create short videos under a minute long complete with visual effects and background music. It has since come under scrutiny in countries like the US and India because it is owned by a Chinese company. Critics have accused the app of posing a national security risk, a claim that TikTok has repeatedly denied. Known as Douyin in China, the app is owned by Beijing-based startup ByteDance, also behind the Chinese news aggregator Jinri Toutiao.
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TikTok Shop’s debacle in Indonesia poses a challenge on how the ByteDance-owned app operator’s e-commerce model could move forward in a highly competitive industry.
Other offline retailers in Southeast Asia whose interests are affected by social commerce platforms are expected to complain to their governments and lobby for a ban on TikTok Shop.
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The US state says the company misrepresents its app’s safety and deceptively portrays itself as independent of its Chinese parent company, ByteDance.
Experts believe the ban will not last, given the economic heft of TikTok in Indonesia, and urged improving regulation instead.
The move calls into question the independence of the app’s operations and the security of US user information, lawmakers say in a letter to CEO Shou Zi Chew.
TikTok, which is owned by China’s ByteDance, said in a statement that it will stop facilitating e-commerce transactions on TikTok Shop Indonesia on October 4 to comply with the country’s new rules about trade on social media.
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The Chinese short video app has sent a team from Singapore to talk with Indonesian officials about the new law that has taken immediate effect, threatening TikTok’s business model.
A study of six online platforms in Poland, Slovakia and Spain finds that Twitter has the highest prevalence of disinformation.
The new rules will allow ByteDance’s TikTok to advertise products, but not conduct direct transactions.
Indonesia is set to unveil new rules to curb social media’s expansion in its e-commerce market in a move to protect small local businesses.
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Lina Mukherjee was also fined US$16,200 – for which her jail term would be extended by three months if it was not paid – after the video amassed millions of views.
The former US vice-president, who is set to deliver a policy speech on Beijing next week, called the app a platform for China’s government.
Lawmakers have said that e-commerce sellers using predatory pricing on social media platforms were threatening offline markets in Indonesia
Many TikTok Shop listings mention products being shipped from China, home to parent firm ByteDance, potentially reigniting US regulatory concerns if user data is put in the hands of Chinese sellers.
First Amendment lawyers and digital security experts argue that university research and collaborations like peer reviews have been undermined.
The centre in Dublin, the first of three in Europe to be built to allay privacy fears stemming from the app’s China ties, is now operational.
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The budget shopping app operator faces tough competition in Southeast Asia against larger rivals such as Alibaba’s Lazada, ByteDance’s TikTok Shop and Singapore-based Shopee.
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