In the 27-second Tik Tok video, actress Angela Bassett and her husband actor Courtney B. Vance are in a room with Slater, 16, who is heard asking his parents if they had heard about the death of ...

The Tik Tok app on an iPhone on Nov. 1 in San Anselmo, Calif. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) IT WAS a bad week for TikTok — and a good week for the long arm of the Chinese government under whose ...