After months of deadline extensions, the TikTok U.S. sale is finally complete, with American and UAE investors taking majority control. While the app avoids a ban, questions remain over algorithm licensing, data influence, and who truly controls what users see.
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By Audrey Leigh As social media platforms like Facebook and TikTok become primary sources of information for many people, misleading weather posts are increasingly going…
By tts-admin Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently told a group of “influencers” gathered at Israel’s Consulate General in New York that TikTok was the…
by Kaley A 30-year-old man in Minnesota has been arrested by the FBI for posting a video on TikTok calling for the assassination of Attorney General Pam Bondi.…
By Michael A. Letts Social media has certainly changed a lot over the years. And not entirely for the better. While it’s an ideal tool…
By William Upton TikTok and its Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-owned parent company, ByteDance, remains a serious national security threat despite a renewed push to force the social media…
By Matt Vespa Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order that paved the way for TikTok to be put up for sale, valuing it at…
By Warren Squire Democrats may like organic produce, but they love producing the most inorganic political campaigns we’ve ever seen. The latest appears to…
By Nicole Haas With tensions rising between the U.S. and China in the battle over tariffs, the fate of the China-based social media platform, TikTok,…
By Reuters in Quetta A man who had recently brought his family back to Pakistan from the United States has confessed to shooting dead his teenage…
By Jacob Burg President-elect Donald Trump said on Jan. 19 that he is asking tech companies to keep social media platform TikTok online and would…
By Danielle TikTok has officially gone dark in the United States. The social media platform became unavailable for some users Saturday evening ahead of the…
By Joe Cunningham As the Supreme Court appears poised to uphold a U.S. law forcing the sale of the social media video platform TikTok, there…
By Blake Wolf TikTok representatives have warned that the company will shut the social media platform down in the U.S. by January 19th, unless the…
by Josh Mitteldorf, Ph.D. A federal appeals court in Philadelphia last week handed down a decision that could have outsized effects on internet censorship. The U.S. Court of…
by Editor 1 ‘For the first time in history, Congress has enacted a law that subjects a single, named speech platform to a permanent,…
By Bob Hoge Sure, Taylor Swift is dominating the song charts since her new album dropped recently, but she probably never guessed she’d get some competition…
By Jim Thompson On a sun-drenched February morning, Taylor Lorenz fixed her gaze on her target. Lorenz’s doll-like eyes stared at Libs of TikTok…