Eight states, including California and Massachusetts, announced on Wednesday that they had launched a bipartisan, nationwide probe of TikTok, focusing on whether the popular video-sharing app causes physical or mental health harm to young people.
Universal Music Group on Thursday reported first-quarter earnings that comfortably beat expectations, helped by the record-breaking success of its star act Taylor Swift.
TikTok owner ByteDance on Wednesday lost its court challenge against its designation as a gatekeeper under landmark European Union rules, in a boost for antitrust regulators seeking to curb the power of Big Tech.
A video showing two clips of truck convoys are unrelated to the October 2023 Israel-Hamas war, contrary to claims made online that the footage depicts an Egyptian convoy reaching the Gaza border.
The Australian government said on Tuesday that Meta , Alphabet's Google and TikTok could face multimillion-dollar charges if they did not negotiate deals to pay local media outlets for news on their platforms.
Napoli striker Victor Osimhen's agent said he "reserves the right to take legal action" against the club after a video mocking the player was posted and then deleted from the Serie A side's official TikTok on Tuesday.
China's ByteDance Ltd is in talks with music labels for expanding its music-streaming service globally to compete with industry leaders such as Spotify Technology SA , the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
Meta Platforms' Instagram has grown to 3 billion Monthly Active Users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday, marking another milestone for one of the most popular social media apps in the world.
A digitally-created TikTok video featuring an unidentified object resembling a fighter craft from the “Star Wars” film franchise has been shared online inaccurately described as a December 2024 drone sighting over New Jersey.
WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Thursday that declares a deal being negotiated by the White House to sell TikTok's U.S. operations will meet ...
China has approved the transfer agreement for the short video app TikTok, United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said, adding that he expects it to move forward in coming weeks and months ...
WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - California Governor Gavin Newsom accused TikTok on Monday of suppressing content critical of President Donald Trump as he launched a review to decide if its content ...
“Hamilton” has always had a way of going viral. Even before the musical was an award-winning sensation, it had a life online. Its creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda, performed an early version of the opening ...
NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani is permitting city government employees and agencies to use TikTok again, reversing a ban his predecessor enacted out of data security concerns. Mamdani, whose prolific ...
China’s government on Monday sidestepped a question on US President Donald Trump’s recent claim that he “pretty much” has a deal with Beijing to bring TikTok into American ownership and that talks ...
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TikTok has introduced a new set of U.S. Terms of Service, just as the United States and China have finalized a deal reshaping ownership of the platform for American ...
What a night it has been. Today's TikTok Awards UK and Ireland brought us high energy, jaw-dropping looks and just the right amount of chaos. Over the last few hours, we saw creators with platforms ...
The International Olympic Committee's relaxed social media rules have prompted a new golden age for athlete influencers ahead of the Milano Cortina Games, where delegations and competitors will scramble to reach the next generation of fans.
The Biden administration is in discussions with Nvidia Corp about permissible sales of artificial intelligence chips to China but emphasized that it cannot sell its most advanced semiconductors to Chinese firms.
Indonesia will impose interim child protection guidelines on social media companies while the government carves out a law to set a minimum age for users of the platforms, a senior communications ministry official said on Wednesday.
Satire published on the eve of April Fool’s Day about a bid to try and get a large mosque built in England’s Peak District National Park is being taken seriously online.
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified this week at a high-stakes trial in Washington where the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is seeking to unwind Meta's acquisitions of prized assets Instagram and WhatsApp.
Fines imposed by Russian courts on Alphabet's Google and YouTube, Meta , TikTok and Telegram appear to have been settled as the companies are no longer registered as debtors in the state bailiffs' database.
Facebook owner Meta Platforms and social media company Snap have been given a Dec. 1 deadline by the EU to give more information on how they protect children from illegal and harmful content, the European Commission said on Friday.
Two key U.S. lawmakers said on Sunday they struck a deal on draft bipartisan data privacy legislation that would restrict consumer data that technology companies can collect and give Americans the power to prevent selling of personal information or compel its deletion.
Dozens of young Vietnamese women lined up for hours last month to catch a glimpse of "cool" troops marching through Hanoi in a huge military parade. But it was not their own soldiers they were looking out for. It was the Chinese contingent.
Fred Blackford, a British tech investor who heads Future Positive Global, has accumulated a stake worth more than $500 million in TikTok-owner ByteDance, he told FT in an in interview published on Thursday.
June must now feel like an alternate reality to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew. Dressed in a traditional batik shirt, he was in Jakarta pledging to invest billions of dollars in Indonesia, seemingly to the delight of government officials, industry executives and consumers. On Wednesday, though, President Joko Widodo’s administration banned e-commerce transactions on social media platforms. ByteDance’s short-form video app business, which boasts 125 million monthly active users in the country, appears to be the main, if not the sole, target.