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Amazon, OnlyFans founder express interest as TikTok sale deadline nears
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US state files appeal after court halts TikTok ban

Montana on Tuesday, said that it will be appealing a U.S. judge’s ruling from November, which had stopped the state’s ban on the use of the TikTok short-video sharing app. The state of Montana is appealing the decision to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, according to a notification filed by Attorney General Austin […]

TikTok upgrades desktop user experience
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TikTok upgrades desktop user experience

Alex Omenye TikTok has recently enhanced its desktop features, aiming to provide a superior user experience for those accessing the platform on larger devices. Although TikTok is primarily known for its mobile app, the company has addressed the shortcomings of its desktop version with this update. According to TikTok, the latest update is designed to […]

EU probes TikTok over breach of privacy
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TikTok removes 1.4m Nigerian user’s videos in Q3 2023

The short video platform owned by Bytedance, TikTok, has reported that during the third quarter of this year, it deleted 1.4 million videos uploaded by Nigerian users. According to The Times, Nigeria was one of the top 50 nations from which videos abusing the site’s policies originated in Q3, the platform claims. During the evaluation period, […]

Britain probes TikTok, Reddit over children's privacy
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Italy approves laws to protect minors on TikTok, Instagram, others

Italy’s communication watchdog, AGCOM, has approved new regulations that allow it to require online video-sharing services to take down “harmful content” in order to safeguard the country’s youth and customers. The agency said the new regulations could have an impact on services like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube by Google when they go into force on […]

As TikTok’s future in the United States remains uncertain, the company has begun testing a new platform aimed at supporting artists in their careers.
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TikTok expands Ticketmaster integration to 20 countries

TikTok has extended the partnership with Ticketmaster to more than 20 countries in North America, Europe, Australia and the UK. According to TikTok, only artists who have been formally certified by the platform are eligible to use the technology which has a straightforward functionality. In a video, the artist incorporates a link to a pertinent […]

White House leads TikTok acquisition deal
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US Judge halts TikTok ban in Montana

A U.S. judge on Thursday declared that Montana’s first-ever state ban on the use of the short-video sharing app TikTok violated users’ right to free speech and prevented it from going into effect on January 1. A preliminary injunction was ordered by U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy to prevent the state from banning the Chinese-owned […]

As TikTok’s future in the United States remains uncertain, the company has begun testing a new platform aimed at supporting artists in their careers.
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Nepal moves to ban TikTok

Nepal on Monday announced that it will ban China’s TikTok, citing the “misuse” of the well-known video app as the reason for the disruption of societal harmony and goodwill, and the growing need for its regulation. Over the last four years, over 1,600 cases of cybercrime related to TikTok have been reported in Nepal, as […]

White House leads TikTok acquisition deal
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TikTok moves to revamp creator fund

TikTok has updated its creator funds to allow creators to make more than 20 times what they made before with its new Creativity Programme. For chattier TikTokers, this is fantastic news, but for other creators, TikTok’s rewards have never really been that helpful in the first place. On December 16, TikTok’s Creator Programme will replace […]

TikTok reassigns senior executive team
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ByteDance to pay $160 for employee shares

Chinese ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has disclosed that the company is willing to pay $160 per share to employees who work for it outside of the US. In October, the company made an offer to present and former U.S. employees and the price per restricted stock unit is in accordance with that offer. […]

Protect your rights, TikTok CEO tells users ahead of US ban
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Isreal-Palestine: TikTok boss to meet EU chiefs over misinformation

TikTok announced on Friday that its CEO, Shou Zi Chew, will meet with EU antitrust director Didier Reynders, EU digital leader Vera Jourova, and EU industry chief Thierry Breton in Brussels next week. Chew’s second travel to Brussels coincides with increased regulatory scrutiny of TikTok’s involvement in spreading misinformation in the wake of the Israel-Hamas […]

Amazon, OnlyFans founder express interest as TikTok sale deadline nears
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TikTok denies promoting Palestine content

The short-form video app TikTok on Thursday refuted claims that the platform has promoted content in favour of Palestine stating that a hashtag showing support for Israel in its fight against Hamas had received more views than a pro-Palestine hashtag. The hashtag “standwithisrael” received 46 million views in the United States between October 7 and […]

White House leads TikTok acquisition deal
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Tech companies partner to combat AI-generated child abuse images

Tech companies TikTok, Snapchat, and Stability AI have committed to collaborating to combat artificial intelligence-generated images of child sex abuse. In the lead-up to a worldwide summit on AI safety that the UK is hosting this week, Britain unveiled the joint declaration on Monday at an event. The statement included the governments of the United […]