Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities global head of tech research, joins CNBC's 'The Exchange' to discuss the looming TikTok ban in ...
I witnessed TikTok in its infancy. I saw how it changed our culture – and how the algorithm changed us. Its absence will ...
Millions of TikTok users in the United States are no longer able to watch videos on the social media platform as a federal ...
“A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can’t use TikTok for now,” the message read in part. The app was also unavailable on the Apple and Google Play stores, ...
First launched in the United States in 2018, the app quickly became the most downloaded social and entertainment app in the ...
The inherent special sauce for TikTok is this algorithm,” said social media expert Ashleigh Shay. “Which ByteDance has gone ...
But ultimately, it’s the TikTok algorithm that sets the app apart, feeding users videos based on sometimes scarily-accurate predictions of what they’ll find entertaining, whether they follow ...
and evidence suggests TikTok’s algorithm launched them into virality. These videos have already racked up millions of views, and the view count on each video reviewed by Media Matters far ...
Whether or not the ban holds for very long, the many unique communities on the platform will inevitably scatter across myriad ...
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 ...