ByteDance now has to show that it’s making significant progress on a deal to sell TikTok to a US-based company.

A marketing campaign brief obtained by WIRED reveals how the Chinese app is trying to capitalize on its sudden international popularity.

At parties throughout Washington over the long Inauguration weekend, creators and strategists who take credit for Donald Trump’s victory toasted their success on the dimes of TikTok, Google, and Spotify.

“Without doubt, the remedy Congress and the President chose here is dramatic,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in a concurring opinion. “Whether this law will succeed in achieving its ends, I do not know.”

Whatever US politicians were hoping for, what they got was a huge increase in users signing up to Duolingo to learn Chinese and American users flooding Chinese apps.

While Supreme Court justices pressed both sides in Friday’s oral arguments, experts say it’s hard to see how TikTok gets enough votes to survive.

In a new proposal issued Friday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking to regulate virtual currencies used in Roblox and other video games like US dollars.

While Meta enacts the X playbook, TikTok is on the verge of being declared illegal. Who wins? Probably not internet users.

Democratic digital strategists and creators argue that the party’s influencer outreach was too little, too late—and that without a coherent message, even the best strategy won't matter.

Politicians fully embraced the creator economy in 2024, blurring the lines between punditry and journalism. By 2028, the lawmakers could become creators themselves.

Fashion, stan, and other online spaces offer clues to what will dominate next year in politics—for better or, in some cases, much worse.

Frank McCourt says his bid for TikTok is part of a broader mission to move millions of people to healthier online platforms. “I compare this to large-scale, human physical migration.”

Former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt has been talking about buying TikTok since earlier this year. The long shot is getting shorter.

David Sacks, a member of the infamous “PayPal Mafia,” will lead a group of advisers tasked with steering AI and crypto policy under the Trump administration.

The Supreme Court, president-elect Donald Trump, or an American buyer could still intervene to save the video platform, which is used by some 170 million Americans.

Depending on what a federal appeals court decides, TikTok’s fate might left in the hands of president-elect Donald Trump.

The president-elect's transition team is consulting with industry leaders as it vets potential replacements for outgoing chair Gary Gensler, sources tell WIRED.

More and more Americans are getting their news from influencers on the internet.

Brendan Carr wrote the Project 2025 chapter on the Federal Communications Commission. Now Donald Trump has tapped him to run the agency.