This week, in the wake of widespread confusion about Trump's tariffs on China, a certain kind of video started going viral on TikTok, and then on other corners of the internet. What is it? Why, it's ...
March 13 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration is set to receive a roughly $10 billion fee from investors in the recently completed deal to take control of TikTok's U.S. business, the ...
Sept 25 (Reuters) - A group of three investors, including Oracle (ORCL.N), opens new tab and private-equity firm Silver Lake, will take a roughly 50% stake in TikTok U.S., a source familiar with the ...
TikTok is now majority-owned by a group of U.S.-backed investors, including Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX. The app's former owner, Chinese company ByteDance, retains a ...
President Donald Trump on Tuesday further extended a potential ban of TikTok until Dec. 16 amid news his administration reached the “framework” for a deal. In an executive order issued Tuesday, Trump ...
Social media apps have long been accused of being harmful to children. Now those claims will come before a jury for the first time in a trial kicking off Tuesday in a Los Angeles courtroom. A key ...
The new Pew report also found that two-thirds of teens said they had used an A.I. chatbot. By Catherine Pearson Most American teenagers use YouTube and TikTok daily, according to a report released ...
You don’t need to be a tech mogul to watch “The Audacity,” the new AMC drama that tells the story of a Silicon Valley guru who must navigate his way around a consumer data scandal. But if you want to ...
There is growing tension in a demographic that helped propel Trump to victory in 2024.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has not banned the sale of red watermelon slices, seen as a symbol of Palestinian solidarity by some, contrary to posts shared online with a fabricated quote or a miscaptioned video.
Universal Music Group's shares leapt more than a third in their stock market debut on Tuesday as investors bet a boom in music streaming still has a long way to run.
Social media companies collect, share and process vast troves of information about their users while offering little transparency or control, including over how it is used by systems incorporating artificial intelligence, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said in a report released on Thursday.
Australia threatened on Tuesday to sue social media giants for allegedly flouting a ban on under-16s, as its internet regulator disclosed it is investigating some of the biggest platforms for suspected non-compliance with the world-first measure.
Online celebrities trouser $11 bln from bigging up companies’ products on social media. That golden goose may get cooked if more brands follow the lead of The North Face, which now has its own ‘AI influencer’. But these come with costs of their own – and the risk of blowback.
A delegation of U.S. lawmakers met with Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun on Monday in the first House of Representatives visit to Beijing in six years, with talks aimed at bolstering exchanges including military-to-military communication.
American football star Travis Kelce did not receive a three-game ban and a $10 million fine after the Super Bowl from the NFL’s disciplinary committee, as alleged by a circulating headline from a website that describes itself as satirical.
French cosmetics giant L'Oreal is expanding into mass-market mists, a senior executive told Reuters, as the group taps strong demand from younger consumers for affordable fragrances with an eye to K-Beauty trends.
Google and the U.S. Justice Department wrapped up closing arguments on Friday over claims that the Alphabet unit has unlawfully dominated web search and related advertising, in a case the government contends could shape the “future of the internet.”
The Chinese government took a stake and a board seat in a key ByteDance entity this year - a move that raises questions over how much influence Beijing is planning to wield in a tech sector reeling under an onslaught of regulatory action.
Australia's centre-left government said on Thursday it planned new rules that would charge big tech firms millions of dollars if they did not pay Australian media companies for news hosted on their platforms.
Twitter said on Wednesday it has blocked the account of Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego due to abusive behavior.
Slovenia is preparing draft legislation to ban social media access for children under 15, Deputy Prime Minister Matej Arcon told a news conference on Thursday.
A video showing a sandstorm in Saudi Arabia in March was shared online in April with false captions saying the footage was from Israel.
Facebook parent Meta and Google's video platform YouTube said on Monday they were removing content supporting or praising the weekend ransacking of Brazilian government buildings by anti-democratic demonstrators.
An AI-generated campaign video for second-hand fashion platform Vestiaire Collective showing piles of clothes scattered in New York’s Times Square has been miscaptioned online to say it shows a protest against fashion brand Zara.
A U.S. district court has awarded Tencent nearly $85 million in compensation after finding that Taiwan-based TV box firm Unblock Tech and other distributors violated copyrights of video content developed by the Chinese tech giant.
TikTok’s CEO Shou Zi Chew heads to Capitol Hill to fend off a potential U.S. ban.
Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng is set to meet U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer from Friday, as the world's two largest economies try to ease an unexpected flare-up in tension ahead of a key leaders' summit.