How to avoid flashing lights and photosensitive videos on TikTok
Here’s how to make your For You Page safer if you’re sensitive to flashing lights. While TikTok’s curated For You Page provides an endless supply of content, users can unintentionally…
President Biden drops Trump orders banning TikTok and WeChat
It’s official: The White House is backing off of TikTok. Former President Donald Trump made it one of his missions while in office to ban TikTok and WeChat, two apps…
TikTok’s updated privacy policy may let it collect your biometric data
TikTok has updated its U.S. privacy policy to make clear that it might collect your biometric information, but none of this really changes anything. Even if it did, you weren’t…
A conspiracy theory about a party supply store went viral on TikTok. Then the police showed up.
When you hear the words “viral TikTok video,” you probably think about funny challenges and pop song lip syncs. But there’s another type of content going viral on TikTok: Conspiracy…
Move over, TikTok. Paste Keyboard tops the App Store.
You thought it took algorithmic brilliance and app-native influencers to top the App Store charts? Nope. Apparently, all it takes is a quick little copy and paste tool. According to…
Why everyone’s talking about ADHD right now (and why it’s kinda annoying)
If you’re reading this, it means you haven’t muted “ADHD” from your feeds yet. For that, I’m grateful. At the same time, I kinda get why you might have. Over…
Stephen Colbert responds to TikTok job applications with some sultry ASMR
[embedded content] Why are cats finding employment and what’s this about TikTok job applications? In his segment, “Quarantinewhile,” which picks up on all the news you might have missed, The…
TikTok has turned against resin artists in the name of sustainability
In Mashable’s series Wasted, we dig into the myriad ways we’re trashing our planet. Because it’s time to sober up. TikTok is turning against the viral resin art it made…
Here’s everything you need to know to use YouTube Shorts, the new TikTok competitor
After months of testing its TikTok competitor in India and a limited beta rollout in the states, YouTube is finally launching YouTube Shorts for everyone in the U.S. So now…
Imagine applying for a job with a TikTok
TikTok wants to be a little more like LinkedIn, according to Axios. Sources told the news outlet on Tuesday that TikTok is testing a new tool for brands to recruit…