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 ...

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 ...

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 ...