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,

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,

The museum started recording TikTok videos of staff using antique printing presses during the pandemic. Since then, they’ve become the most followed museum on the platform.

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 ...

In April, President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that requires TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app to a U.S. company or shut down operations in the United States by Sunday, Jan. 19 — arguing that the app poses a risk to national security.