TikTok is not the only app owned by the Chinese internet giant ByteDance that is flickering back to life. CapCut, a popular video-editing app, came back online in the United States on Tuesday after going dark over the weekend. Users who opened the app or visited its website were greeted with a pop-up message on…
For months, Instagram has watched and waited to see what would happen to rival TikTok under a new federal law that would ban the app in the United States. On Sunday, the day that law took effect, Instagram pounced. The social media app, which is owned by Meta, announced a new app called Edits, a…
Follow live updates on the Supreme Court ruling against TikTok. As a TikTok ban looms, hundreds of thousands of Americans casting about for a new video-sharing app have migrated to Xiaohongshu, a social media platform that translates as “Little Red Book,” the American nickname for a classic compendium of quotations from Chairman Mao. It has…