Khaby Lame, famous for his silently hilarious TikTok persona, was detained by immigration officers last week, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Lame, 25, rose to fame while living ...
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 ...
TikTok is rolling out several new safety features, including a more expansive version of its community notes-style product, as the broader social networking industry is under fire for not doing enough ...
We may be one step closer to finally closing the book on the endlessly-postponed TikTok ban. The Information is reporting that TikTok is working on a U.S. version of the app. Called M2, the new app is ...
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 ...
More Americans are rethinking where they want to live. Some are heading to Southeast Asia, drawn in part by what they're seeing on TikTok and YouTube. But those videos don't tell the whole story. More ...
TikTok users are building eye-catching lists of their dislikes and are labeling them as propaganda that they’re “not falling for.” By Nicole Stock Lip filler, people who aren’t cat people, the ...
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 ...
Sydney Towle’s videos have drawn an enormous audience on TikTok, where her followers praise and support her. On Reddit, an army of skeptics was determined to paint her as a fraud. Credit... Supported ...
Indonesia will restrict access to social media platforms for children under 16, its communications and digital ministry said on Friday, making it the latest country to install online guardrails to reduce the risks of addiction and cyberbullying.
An effort to force TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the social media app or face a ban in the U.S. was gaining steam in Congress on Thursday, with the House of Representatives setting a vote for Saturday and a key Senate Democrat voicing support for the move.
Indian authorities have blocked at least two of ByteDance's bank accounts for alleged tax evasion, prompting it to ask a court to quash the directive that it fears will hit its operations, two sources with direct knowledge told Reuters.
An art project showing a piece of broccoli moving by itself has been shared online with false captions that it is an "artificial" vegetable produced in a laboratory run by billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates.
TikTok-owner ByteDance's profit jumped roughly 60% in 2023, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Indonesia plans to issue a regulation to set a minimum age for users of social media, a move aimed at protecting children, its communications minister has said.
A video of a large crowd outside the federal parliament building in Nepal has been miscaptioned online as showing protests in Nigeria against the detention of a separatist leader who is on trial in Abuja on terrorism charges.
China's ByteDance has told an Indian court that a government freeze on its bank accounts in a probe of possible tax evasion amounts to harassment and was done illegally, according to a filing seen by Reuters.
A top U.S. law enforcement official on Thursday unveiled a new "disruptive technology strike force" tasked with safeguarding American technology from foreign adversaries and other national security threats.
Some users had accused the app of blocking them from posting videos about Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The app said it was a power outage issue. By David McCabe TikTok said on Tuesday that its ...
TikTok owner ByteDance has made preliminary plans for capital expenditure of 160 billion yuan ($22.74 billion) in 2026 to build artificial intelligence infrastructure, the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
A TikTok account impersonating Saudi news channel Al-Hadath created a fake report that uses footage of a fire in India and an unrelated voiceover from Al Jazeera to falsely claim that Yemen had attacked the Tel Aviv headquarters of Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad.
A Chinese social media influence operation is impersonating U.S. voters, denigrating U.S. politicians and pushing divisive messages ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election in the United States, new research by intelligence company Graphika showed.
Online platforms like Twitter , Facebook and Tiktok will be required to register and open offices in Nigeria and appoint contact persons with the government, draft regulations from the information technology development agency show.
China is aiming for "global technological supremacy" in cyberspace and is using its cyber capabilities to conduct intelligence and surveillance campaigns, Britain's cyber chief said on Wednesday.
A fake video that seemingly shows a British lawmaker suggesting the presence of a double standard because the U.S. captured Venezuela’s leader and not Israel’s counterpart has been shared online as if it were real.
Two nurses in a Sydney hospital have been suspended from work for threatening to kill Jewish patients and refusing to treat them in a video on TikTok, triggering an investigation by police, authorities said on Wednesday.
Katie Feeney, an 18-year-old from Olney, Maryland, was in her calculus class on Zoom in November when she learned that a week of posting skits and unboxing videos on Snapchat (SNAP.N) earned her $229,000. Her $1.4 million in total earnings over the past seven months will be enough to pay for her college tuition at Penn State to study business.
Taylor Swift's 12th studio album "The Life of a Showgirl" on Friday debuted to midnight Target runs, theater-release parties and glitzy pop-ups that lit up the United States, from New York to Los Angeles.
Online message board platform Reddit Inc said on Thursday it is launching a new Discover tab that will feature photos and videos from across the site to make its mobile app more visually appealing.
Posts sharing a digitally created video of an Air Force One plane inaccurately describe it as a real flyby conducted by U.S. President Donald Trump for U.S. Navy sailors on an aircraft carrier.