A draft agreement with a federal agency to avoid a ban would have given US agencies unprecedented access to TikTok's facilities and servers.
TikTok's Gimme the Mic will see a global contestant take home 500,000 Diamonds, which equates to an unspecified amount of cash.
Cybersecurity attacks have ramped up in recent years, with 110.8 million accounts leaked in the second quarter of 2023.
The video app is launching a shopping function in the US as soon as August, creating a new pipeline for inexpensive Chinese-made products.
Superior Court Judge Gary Wilcox could be reprimanded or disbarred for "graphic sexual references" in videos posted on TikTok.
Former COO V. Pappas resigns as the company faces dozens of attempts to ban the app on the state and federal level.
GLAAD’s 2023 survey of social media says that while some platforms are better than last year, gay-bashing rhetoric is still rife on most sites.
Three senators said recent news reports contradict CEO Shou Zi Chew's sworn testimony about where the app stores US user data.
ByteDance's ex-head of engineering claimed CCP officials were granted 'superuser' credentials to gain access to data on American users and Hong Kong protesters.
Twitter's head of trust and safety and the company's head of brand safety and ad quality reportedly resigned after Musk snubbed his moderation team.
Sarah Stusek posted a TikTok going after a GoodReads reviewer, which sparked a BookTok storm and got her dropped from her publisher.
Elon Musk's expanded Community Notes feature will ask users to "add context" to maybe-AI-generated images.
SmartNews Trust and Safety Lead Arjun Narayan says news organizations must develop "first principles" and assure transparency before using AI writers.
Tako is a ghost-themed chatbot that is a weird amalgamation of TikTok's search function and the For You page.
TikTok says Montana's law banning downloads of the app in the state is illegal and would crush local users' freedom of expression.
A marketing agency is offering $100 an hour to three applicants bored enough to scroll through TikTok for 10 hours.
Montana TikTokers are joining lawsuits seeking to overturn a state-wide ban on the app. They say the prohibition threatens their livelihoods.
Montana's governor signed the nation's first state ban into law as the federal government considers prohibiting the short-form video app nationwide.
Meta is fanning the flames of a possible TikTok ban and boosting its own short-form video tools in an effort to lure in concerned creators.
TikTok is reportedly uninterested in creating its own record label, and exclusive deals are likely as close as the company will get for now.
