Instagram and Facebook Are Using Fears of a TikTok Ban to Poach Influencers
If you can’t beat ‘em, copy ‘em Dahan told Gizmodo’s that Meta’s news strategy of sharing ad revenues for reels looks an awful lot like Meta’s previous decision to copy…
TikTok Tracked a Cat’s Account to Spy on a Journalist
A handful of ByteDance employees in the US and China tracked a cat’s TikTok account in order to find the IP address of its owner, a reporter covering the company.…
How to Access Your TikTok Watch History
We’ve all been there: You’re in a conversation with friends, and you desperately try to find a TikTok that you had scrolled past that could serve as a funny contribution…
‘Our Free Will Is Being Taken’: Montana TikTokers Caught in Legal Limbo After State’s Unprecedented Ban
When Spencre McGowan, an herbalist and a cookbook writer in Butte, Montana, started posting on TikTok to help pull herself out of a “depressive funk” in 2021, she could have…
20 Times People Lived in a Wes Anderson Movie on TikTok
The Wes Anderson trend in action. Trains, cute dogs, and vintage cars are a must.Image: @keithafadi, @verdeflowerco, @avawillyums Romanticizing your life on social media is nothing new, but some TikTokers…
TikTok’s CEO Breaks Silence After Brutal Congressional Hearing
On Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew give his first interview since sparring with House lawmakers in a testy hearing back in March. Chew is one of dozens of business…
TikTok’s CEO Will Speak for the First Time Since Browbeating in Congress
On Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will give his first interview since sparring with House lawmakers in a testy hearing back in March. Chew is one of dozens of…
TikTok Says It’s ‘Never Seen This Type of Content Trend’ After Teen Dies From Benadryl Challenge
TikTok responded to the death of a 13-year-old Ohio boy who overdosed while participating in the “Benadryl challenge” on its platform, stating that it had “never seen this type of…
Why Banning TikTok Would Be a Cybersecurity Disaster
Photo: Koshiro K (Shutterstock) Nobody’s Really Watching Reels Off English TikTok is not be the first app to be scrutinized over the potential exposure of U.S. user data, but it…
Montana Just Passed the First State TikTok Ban
Montana made history on Friday by becoming the first state legislature to approve a wholesale TikTok affecting nearly all devices in the state. The first-of-its-kind ban, which goes far beyond…