The self-described "Zoomer" from San José  started using TikTok in 2020 and now, five years later, he continues to reach voters on the app, distilling complicated policy issues into bite-sized clips.The first openly bisexual state legislator in California,

With the TikTok ban poised to go into effect Sunday, some influential California creators will lose their main platform.

According to Vox, Chinese entrepreneurs Alex Zhu and Luyu Yang launched the app before ByteDance acquired it. California is suing TikTok for “exploiting” young users "for profit" and misleading the public over the danger the social media platform ...

In a historic development, Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok has become the center of a bipartisan bill to ban the app nationwide in the name of national security. Xiao Qiang, a research scientist at the UC Berkeley School of Information and a prominent scholar in the study of state censorship,

However, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against TikTok on Friday, requiring the popular app to now either be shut down or sold. In California, about 16 million people and 890,000 businesses actively ...

Users on TikTok are blocking Facebook and Instagram from their accounts, citing concerns that the Meta companies are changing their "For You" pages on the video platform. According to multiple users,

Bay Area content creators say they feel uneasy about how TikTok’s uncertain future will impact their businesses.

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The TikTok ban, which will take effect this weekend, will result in the loss of the main platform of some influential California creators. The Chinese parent company of TikTok, ByteDance ...

"TikTok really allows you as an elected official ... Read more: Cannabis cafes, AI and parking: How new California laws could affect you in 2025 One of Garcia's most popular videos has over ...

The list goes on. Read more:This Latino Republican flipped a deep-blue California Assembly district. How? One federal lawmaker who voted against the TikTok ban last year, U.S Rep. Robert Garcia ...

President Trump played down concerns over TikTok and threatened to withhold aid to fire-ravaged California in a wide-ranging first TV interview from the Oval Office. On his first day back in the White House,