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+21 +1Madonna’s ‘unsettling’ pre-Grammys TikTok video sparks fan concern
The Queen of Pop’s newest video has left fans confused and “unsettled.”
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+34 +1Facebook’s Playbook to Beat Competitors Has Had to Change With TikTok
Facebook used to buy up competitors or replicate their success. Now a Washington Post report has revealed Meta is using a consulting firm to launch a media smear campaign against TikTok as it loses its grasp on teen users.
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+24 +1TikTok is testing a ‘Watch History’ so you can finally find that video you saw
You could finally scroll through your watched TikToks.
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+2 +1Russian TikTok Influencers Are Being Paid to Spread Kremlin Propaganda
An investigation by VICE News uncovered a coordinated campaign to pay Russian TikTok influencers to post videos pushing pro-Kremlin narratives.
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+18 +1US attorneys general launch investigation into harms of TikTok on young people
A bipartisan group of attorneys general are launching an investigation into whether TikTok is designed and promoted in a “manner that causes or exacerbates physical and mental health harms” for children and young people. Led by the Massachusetts attorney general, Maura Healy, the regulators are investigating whether the company violated consumer protection laws or put the public at risk.
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+22 +1The first TikTok war: how are influencers in Russia and Ukraine responding?
Social media lit up with messages and videos decrying the war, ignoring the risk that comes with speaking against a Russian dictator
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+23 +1A Child’s TikTok Stardom Opens Doors. Then a Gunman Arrives.
Their daughter’s online venture plunged a Florida family into a nightmare, but they decided not to pull the plug.
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+20 +1TikTok is banning misgendering, deadnaming, and content promoting disordered eating
The new changes tighten what falls under banned content.
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+18 +1TikTok shares your data more than any other social media app — and it's unclear where it goes, study says
YouTube and TikTok track users' personal data more than other social media apps, a recent study says. YouTube mostly keeps the data for itself, while TikTok allows more third parties to collect it.
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+16 +1How TikTok Helped Fuel The Best-Selling Year For Print Books
Readers purchased 825 million copies of print books in the U.S. in 2021—the best-selling year for print books, NPD Bookscan says, since it began tracking data in 2004—and analysts believe young people posting about books on social media played a serious role in those big numbers.
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+13 +1Teens who are “addicted” to TikTok experience worse depression and anxiety, and in turn, reduced working memory capacity
A study among teenage TikTok users found that those who showed addictive tendencies toward the platform performed worse when recalling number sequences. The findings, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, further suggested that this working memory deficit was in part due to increased depression and anxiety.
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+21 +1Disney’s text-to-speech TikTok voices censored words like "gay" and "lesbian"
Various queer words were not allowed
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+7 +1TikTok Millionaire: How Khaby Lame Went From Penniless To Millionaire Without Saying A Word
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+10 +1TikTok Cosplayer Killed Friend While Pretending to Be Batman Villain
According to a police report and an audio statement, cosplaying TikToker Yandere.freak was playing with a loaded gun and shot a friend in the head.
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