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 ...

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 ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest ByteDance news every morning. ByteDance is shutting down TopBuzz, its attempt to build a news app for an international audience, in a ...

For years, lawmakers and commentators have feared that the Chinese government could use TikTok — which is owned by a Chinese parent company, ByteDance — to secretly distribute content sympathetic to ...

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 ...

China’s ByteDance, whose TikTok video app has taken the U.S. by storm, is trying to sell its overseas news and entertainment app, called TopBuzz, people familiar with the matter said. ByteDance is in ...

ByteDance, parent company of popular short video app TikTok, has closed its artificial intelligence-enabled news aggregator app TopBuzz, which had failed to capture a vast international audience in ...