ByteDance’s agreement to sell TikTok puts app’s algorithm in the spotlight – a social media expert explains how the ‘For You’ page works and what’s to come

With a change of ownership in the works, TikTok’s algorithm – the secret sauce of its success – is going to be reset for US ...

2025 Yearender: Peoples’ exchanges across the Pacific show GT reporters ‘how the world is supposed to be’

This led to a climax of cross-cultural exchanges, and the Global Times reporters witnessed how two families - the Rongrong family from Shanghai and the Brecken family from the State of Mississippi - ...

Inside the Lives of China's 'Rat People' — What Is It All About?

China's Gen Z are rejecting burnout culture, embracing the 'rat people' identity as unemployment, exhaustion, and reshape ...
China Digital Times

CDT’s “404 Deleted Content Archive” Summary for November 2025, Part One

CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we publish a summary of content blocked or deleted (often yielding the message ...