BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - ByteDance, owner of the global hit short-video app TikTok, has shut down its artificial-intelligence-based news aggregator TopBuzz, one of the company’s earliest products ...

ByteDance, owner of the global hit short-video app TikTok, has shut down its artificial-intelligence-based news aggregator TopBuzz, one of the company's earliest products aimed at the global stage.

Former employees claim the company placed pieces of pro-China content in its now-defunct US news app, TopBuzz, and censored negative stories about the Chinese government. ByteDance says it did no such ...

As ByteDance’s TikTok app soars in popularity, there are long-standing worries that China will use one of its widely popular apps to grow its soft power by distributing pro-China messaging in the West ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. ByteDance is shutting down TopBuzz, its attempt to build a news app for an international audience, in a ...

While ByteDance’s short video app TikTok is taking the world by storm, its lesser-known news app TopBuzz is not that lucky. The Beijing-based tech unicorn shut down TopBuzz, the overseas equivalent of ...