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TikTok executives have rushed to respond to what they view as an inaccurate and unfair narrative about its content. Photo: Alyssa Schukar for The Wall Street JournalTikTok is facing what it views as perhaps its biggest crisis yet, with the world’s most popular app facing an intense backlash over the perception it favors pro-Palestinian and, at times, antisemitic content. Citing anti-Israel posts that surfaced on TikTok since the Gaza conflict began and a decades-old Osama bin Laden letter that circulated this week, Washington lawmakers have renewed calls to ban the app in the U.S.

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☆ The Billionaire Keeping TikTok on Phones in the U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( John D. Mckinnon | Stu Woo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Stu Woo — Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Stu Woo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Stu WooStu Woo is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in London. He also occasionally covers sports, having covered the London 2012 and Beijing 2022 Olympics. Stu was part of a Journal team that won the 2021 National Press Foundation award for international-trade reporting. A Brown University graduate, Stu joined the Journal in 2008 as an intern in his hometown of San Francisco. He has been a foreign correspondent since 2016, with postings in London and Beijing.

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☆ The Battle to Ban TikTok and the Man at the Center of It
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Meghan Bobrowsky | Stu Woo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Artificial Intelligence May Eliminate Some Jobs, OpenAI Executive Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Stu Woo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ TikTok Ban Signed in Montana, Paving Way for First Amendment Legal Battle
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Stu Woo | Meghan Bobrowsky | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Montana Lawmakers Approve Statewide Ban on TikTok
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Meghan Bobrowsky | Stu Woo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Montana lawmakers on Friday approved a first-of-its-kind bill to ban TikTok across the state, setting the stage for future court battles that could determine the fate in the U.S. of the popular, Chinese-owned social media app. The Montana House voted 54-43 to send the bill to Gov. Greg Gianforte ’s desk. The governor’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on whether or when he might sign the bill.

☆ NPR to Quit Twitter Over Label Dispute
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Stu Woo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Elon Musk Says Twitter Finances Were Boosted by Overhaul
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Stu Woo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ NPR to Quit Twitter After Dispute Over ‘Government-Funded Media’ Label
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Stu Woo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ TikTok’s Next Big Ban Showdown Is in Montana
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Stu Woo | Georgia Wells | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TikTok’s campaign for survival in the U.S. runs through Montana. After state lawmakers last month advanced a bill to ban the popular video app for Montanans, TikTok quickly responded. Its chief operating officer called it a violation of Montanans’ free-speech rights. It hired lobbyists in Helena, the state capital. And it recruited local TikTok creators to star in newspaper and radio ads.

☆ The Winners and Losers if the U.S. Bans TikTok
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Georgia Wells | Stu Woo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

In the five years since TikTok burst onto the scene as the hot video-sharing app, it has accumulated 150 million users in the U.S. It has given small businesses a new way to reach potential customers and caused anxiety among national-security experts and lawmakers in Washington. TikTok’s future in the U.S., however, is uncertain: The Biden administration is demanding TikTok’s Chinese owners sell their stakes or face a possible ban of the app, The Wall Street Journal reported in mid March. TikTok has said a sale wouldn’t solve security concerns, and has instead proposed to the Biden administration a $1.5-billion plan that it says would silo its U.S. operations from China.

☆ TikTok CEO, Veteran of Singapore Army, Harvard and Goldman Sachs, Tries to Reassure America
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Stu Woo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON—TikTok Chief Executive Officer Shou Zi Chew says his company is offering the U.S. government more concessions and oversight than any business in history. On Thursday, the 40-year-old former Singapore army reservist and Goldman Sachs banker is slated to appear in front of a group of lawmakers who say that still isn’t enough. Born and raised in Singapore, then educated in London and at Harvard Business School, Mr. Chew has navigated both Western and Chinese business over the course of his fast rise to the corner office. Many members have threatened to ban TikTok, saying its Chinese ownership poses a national security threat. He runs TikTok from offices in Singapore, but travels often, including frequently to the U.S.

☆ Who Is Shou Zi Chew, the TikTok CEO Trying to Reassure America?
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Stu Woo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—TikTok Chief Executive Officer Shou Zi Chew has navigated both Western and Chinese business over the course of his fast rise to the corner office. That cultural straddle has helped land him the top job at one of the world’s biggest tech companies. His background might now help him connect with a skeptical American Congress. Many members have threatened to ban TikTok, saying its Chinese ownership poses a national-security threat.

☆ TikTok CEO’s Message to Washington: A Sale Won’t Solve Security Concerns
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Stu Woo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—TikTok’s boss has a message for the Biden administration and Congress: A sale won’t resolve America’s national-security concerns over the popular video app. Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew said in an interview that divesting the company from its Chinese owners—a move the U.S. is now demanding—doesn’t offer any more protection than a multibillion-dollar plan TikTok has already proposed. The plan involves hiring an American partner, Oracle Corp., to store American users’ data and safeguard against any Chinese influence over what videos Americans view on the app.

☆ Why Is the U.S. Threatening to Ban TikTok?
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Stu Woo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Biden administration has told TikTok its Chinese owners must sell their stakes in the company or else face a nationwide ban on the app. Officials and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say they are concerned the Chinese government could gain access to Americans’ user data, or could influence what Americans see on the app. The short-form video platform owned by Beijing-headquartered ByteDance Ltd. became a hit during the pandemic, growing to more than 100 million American users and winning ad dollars from U.S. businesses.

☆ ‘This Has to be a Joke.’ Why Tourists Are Stopping in a Tiny Alabama Town to Take Pictures With the Mayor
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Stu Woo | Photographs Bob Miller For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ONEONTA, Ala.—To some Washington lawmakers, TikTok poses a national security threat. Oneonta Mayor Richard Phillips credits the app for putting his small town on the map. Mayor Phillips went viral with a series of TikTok videos suitably named “Mayor Shenanigans.” In one of his first videos, in 2021, he stops by the office of Police Chief Charles Clifton and asks, “Do we have a tank that I can drive?” The chief’s eyes bulge in surprise. “Like with a cannon?” he asks.

☆ Why Tiny Oneonta, Ala., Has Millions of Fans
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Stu Woo | Photographs Bob Miller For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ONEONTA, Ala.—To some Washington lawmakers, TikTok poses a national-security threat. Oneonta Mayor Richard Phillips credits the app for putting his small town on the map. Mayor Phillips went viral with a series of TikTok videos suitably named “Mayor Shenanigans.” In one of his first videos, in 2021, he stops by the office of Police Chief Charles Clifton and asks, “Do we have a tank that I can drive?” The chief’s eyes bulge in surprise. “Like with a cannon?” he asks.

☆ TikTok Commits $1.3 Billion to Build European Safeguards
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Stu Woo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

LONDON—TikTok said it would spend about $1.3 billion a year on measures to safeguard European users, as the video app tries to assuage governments that are increasingly concerned about its Chinese parent company. TikTok executives said Wednesday that they would spend 1.2 billion euros annually on such measures, which they call “Project Clover,” an effort first reported earlier this week by The Wall Street Journal. The plans include opening two data centers in Ireland within weeks, and a third center in Norway later this year. They said data of European users, currently stored in Singapore and the U.S., will move to these three sites.

☆ TikTok Rolls Out ‘Project Clover’ to Assure Europeans on Data
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Stu Woo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TikTok executives briefed British political advisers and other policy makers on the video app’s plan to secure the data of European users. LONDON—TikTok executives launched a charm offensive in Britain aimed at convincing politicians that the data of British users are safe, said people familiar with the matter, as a growing list of other governments restrict use of the app. TikTok executives on Monday briefed British political advisers, think tanks and other policy makers on what it described as “Project Clover,” the popular video app’s plan to secure the data of European users, the people said.

Bans on TikTok on government-issued devices in the U.S., the European Union and Canada are prompting lawmakers in some of Washington’s main intelligence-sharing allies to demand that their countries follow suit. Australia and New Zealand haven’t banned TikTok across all government agencies, instead leaving it to individual departments to decide whether their employees can install the app. Australian government departments—including defense—prohibit the installation of TikTok, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd., but some lawmakers say the lack of a blanket ban creates unnecessary national security risks.

The European Commission has banned its staff from using the TikTok app on their work-issued devices, widening across the Atlantic a patchwork of similar, limited bans affecting U.S. officials. The move, which would affect thousands of employees of the European Union’s top executive body, comes as officials in Europe and the U.S. scrutinize TikTok, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd., over security concerns.

☆ China’s Newest Weapon to Nab Western Technology—Its Courts
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Stu Woo | Daniel Michaels | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The growing conflict between China and the U.S. extends from computer-chip factories to a suspected spy balloon over American skies. Running through it all is a struggle for technological superiority. China has striven for years to develop cutting-edge technologies, in part through heavy spending on research. Now, according to Western officials and executives, it also has mobilized its legal system to pry technology from other nations.

☆ TikTok Commits to Two New Data Centers in Europe
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( Stu Woo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

LONDON—TikTok said it planned to build two new data centers in Europe in addition to a previously announced one, as the Chinese-owned video-sharing app tries to address security concerns in Europe and the U.S.TikTok, in announcing the data-center plans Friday, also disclosed it had 125 million monthly active users in the European Union. As part of the EU’s new Digital Services Act, the 27-country bloc had set Friday as the deadline for online platforms to report user totals. The biggest companies—defined as those with more than 45 million users—must meet additional requirements to reduce what the EU says is the risk of harm on their platforms.

☆ TikTok’s Parent Takes On Meta in Battle for Virtual-Reality Market
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-12 | by ( Meghan Bobrowsky | Stu Woo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ByteDance Ltd., the China-based owner of TikTok, is starting to snare market share in the virtual-reality headset space that Meta Platforms Inc. has identified as critical to its future. Two years ago, ByteDance bought Pico, a Chinese startup that makes VR headsets. That launched a new front in the Chinese company’s competition with Meta , whose Instagram and Facebook services have been battling for users and advertising dollars against TikTok as the short-video app soared in popularity.

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