[Updated Sept. 25] Reuters has led coverage of the U.S. government’s crackdown on Chinese-owned popular short-video app TikTok through a series of exclusives and deep dives. Leveraging its 2,500 reporters in 200 locations around the world, Reuters has been first with key developments from the very start, explaining what is at stake for consumers, TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance and relations between the world’s two largest economies.
Among the exclusive news and scoops, Reuters revealed:
- U.S. opens national security investigation into TikTok
- China’s ByteDance moves to ringfence its TikTok app amid U.S. probe
- TikTok owner ByteDance moves to shift power out of China
- Zhang Yiming, founder of TikTok owner ByteDance, gears up for the global stage
- TikTok says it will exit Hong Kong market within days
- India asks court to stymie potential challenge to Chinese app ban
- U.S. probing allegations TikTok violated children’s privacy
- TikTok’s U.S. users prepare for life without the video app
- ByteDance investors value TikTok at $50 billion in takeover bid
- TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal
- Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal
- Microsoft faces complex technical challenges in TikTok carveout
- U.S. ban on TikTok could cut it off from app stores, advertisers
- TikTok to challenge U.S. order banning transactions with the video app
- ByteDance investors seek to use stakes to finance TikTok bid
- ByteDance asks TikTok to draw up U.S. shutdown contingencies
- TikTok booms in Southeast Asia as it picks path through political minefields
- Aspiring TikTok buyers pursue four options in effort to revive talks
- China would rather see TikTok U.S. close than a forced sale
- Trump to block U.S. downloads of TikTok, WeChat on Sunday
- How a marked-up term sheet and messy rollout threw TikTok deal into disarray