Members of the City Youth Organization in Hyderabad hold posters in support of India's ban of TikTok in June 2020. Credit - ...

India’s 2020 crackdown helped give rise to Instagram Reels, which has largely replaced it there. But TikTok has proved more ...

TikTok fans in the U.S. are racing to secure alternatives and safeguard their digital empires ahead of a looming shutdown, ...

As governments work on stricter regulations for social media platforms, the fate of TikTok could depend on its ability to ...

If it feels like TikTok has been around forever, that’s probably because it has, at least if you’re measuring via internet ...

But TikTok actually faced an even bigger exodus of users in 2020, when India banned the app. At the time, India was TikTok’s biggest foreign market outside of China, with 200 million users.

When India banned TikTok in June 2020, Meta's Instagram and Google's YouTube gained big time. Will it be the same with the US ...

The Indian Government’s action in 2020 serves as a case study of how quickly platforms can be sidelined due to regulatory ...

Over time, TikTok would likely degrade and become unusable. Officials in India banned TikTok in 2020, and the company also proactively blacked out the app in that case. When Indian users who ...

The real issue is TikTok’s almost frightening power to mould public opinion—which Meta enjoys in perhaps bigger measure in India. This also sheds light on India’s response to TikTok.