Knight Institute Comments on Challenge to Federal #TikTok Ban. TikTok filed a legal challenge today to the recently passed federal law that could ban the social media app in the U.S. See our statement from Jameel Jaffer below & at the link. knightcolumbia.org/content/knight…

“if you want to be transparent and have authentic, transparent conversation with your public, this tool will allow you to do it in a world where everything digital can be manipulated.” #TikTok to label #AI -generated user content on.ft.com/3JZT5Df

In January TikTok announced Project Texas—its plan to address national security concerns being raised by Congress. Matt Perault looks at TikTok’s progress implementing the project since then: lawfaremedia.org/article/has-ti…

Today we filed a First Amendment lawsuit on behalf of eight TikTok US creators to block the federal government’s TikTok ban. dwt.com/-/media/files/…

Pretty much every expert NPR spoke to, including me, doesn’t see this TikTok ban surviving a constitutional challenge. npr.org/2024/05/14/125…

"TikTok will not be the last target of government’s desire to control the internet and the rest of society’s information and opinion ecosystem." washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/… Great piece on the TikTok panic by George F. Will

TikTok said that it had taken down thousands of accounts that belonged to 15 covert influence operations in the first four months of this year, including the second largest such network detected from China. wapo.st/4e2ZkEq

In 2022, TikTok offered the Biden administration control over its U.S. operations and a kill switch that would shut the app down in the United States if they felt it remained a threat. The Biden administration, however, went its own way. wapo.st/4aJPlki

Banning TikTok = Banning Speech. So we're suing the Biden Administration. foxbusiness.com/politics/right…

Today we filed our opening brief in federal court as part of our litigation seeking to overturn the unconstitutional TikTok ban. Read the brief here: newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/tiktok-f…

Free speech and digital rights groups argue TikTok law would infringe on the First Amendment apnews.com/article/tiktok…

I worked with an extraordinary group of scholars to put together an amicus brief arguing that the TikTok Law violates the First Amendment. Thanks, James Grimmelmann, Gautam Hans, Nikolas Guggenberger, Jane Bambauer, Derek Bambauer, Chris Sprigman, Ash Bhagwat. 1/

The Biden admin has finally told the DC Circuit why Americans can't have access to TikTok.

Even after its brief to the court, the government still has yet to build a public record explaining why effectively banning TikTok — a dramatic restriction on Americans’ right to speak and access information — is necessitated by specific national security threats.

🚨The government is trying to use secret evidence to close down TikTok. On Friday, the DOJ filed a brief in TikTok v. Garland, asking the court to seal info that forms the basis for its claim that TikTok threatens national security. surveillance.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Today, we filed our reply brief in support of our petition to overturn the unconstitutional TikTok ban. Our brief demonstrates how the law flagrantly violates the First Amendment and tramples the free speech rights of 170 million Americans. You may read our brief here:

/1 Today we're sharing updates on our continued investment in protecting TikTok for our 170M+ US community members through the 2024 US elections. 👇🧵

Story from NYT on our ongoing safety efforts during 2024 elections: "Most major social media companies have scaled back safeguards around misinformation and downsized teams working on elections. Mr. Mahadevan, whose MediaWise group promotes media literacy across social