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In 2012, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance was just a handful of geeks working out of a scrappy four-bedroom apartment in Beijing. Today, it is the world’s fastest-growing tech behemoth worth in excess of $100 billion, unrecognizable from its humble beginnings.

We open the episode with David Kris’s thoughts on the two-years-late CFIUS investigation of TikTok, its Chinese owner, ByteDance, and ByteDance’s US acquisition of the lip-syncing company Musical.ly. Our best guess is that this unprecedented reach-back investigation will end in a more or less precedented mitigation agreement. I cover the WhatsApp suit against NSO Group over the use of spyware on WhatsApp’s network. I predict that this is going to be a highwire act given the applicable precedents on whether violating terms of service also violates the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. I ...

Send Bidemi a Text Message!In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde provided a clear-eyed compare/contrast of Meta and ByteDance through a U.S. national-security lens. He mapped shared engines—algorithmic ads, creator commerce, and hyperscale AI—against divergent governance and accountability. Using counterintelligence (CI) and foreign malign influence (FMI) frameworks, he examined data-access risk, influence operations (IO), moderation incentives, and legal exposure (e.g., Chinese intelligence law vs. market/regulatory checks). He touched on how ODNI threat assessments, NSA/CISA cyber ...

WARNING: Reading this book may change how you use social media forever. Step inside the nerve centers of the digital Cold War. As the clock ticks down to the September 2025 'divest-or-die' deadline, BANPROOF: The M-2 Files takes you on a pulse-pounding journey through the battlefields of ByteDance, Washington D.C., and Silicon Valley. This gripping techno-thriller unveils the secretive Project M-2, where Beijing draws its hard line on algorithm control and global powers race to shape the future of social media. Get ready for a front-row seat to the unprecedented migration of 170 million ...

ByteDance says it will work in accordance with Chinese laws and regulations to ensure service for American users through TikTok U.S.

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ByteDance and TikTok filed an emergency motion on Monday asking an appeals court to temporally block the law that would ban TikTok in the U.S. unless the social network divests from Chinese ownership by January 19. Also, Apple is being sued over its decision not to implement a system that would have scanned iCloud photos for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The lawsuit argues that by not doing more to prevent the spread of this material, it’s forcing victims to relive their trauma, according to The New York Times; A U.S. breast-screening program claims to demonstrate the potential ...

ByteDance’s gaming ambition has been an expensive, short-lived pursuit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TikTok’s parent company ByteDance announced today that it’s launching a new, free-to-use music production app in closed beta in the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today on Market View, Michelle Martin and Willie Keng, Founder, Dividend Titan find out the state of Sembmarine's business after the company filed notice of 3 straight years of losses, how markets are reacting to Beijing's probe into Micron Technology, HSBC's rejection of a Hong Kong investor's Asia spin-off proposal, and more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

'A must-read account from a heroic reporter who has taken on the world's most dangerous tech company' – Chris Miller, award-winning author of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology It’s on your phone. It’s on your children’s phones. It’s on more than a billion...