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TikTok is becoming a growing source of news for Americans. Pew Research Center found that the percentage of US adults who regularly got their news from TikTok more than tripled from 3% of US adults in 2020, to 10% in 2022, and now 14% in 2023. The percentage of US adult TikTok users who regularly get their news from the platform increased from ...
TikTok's design encourages manic performance and a false sense of intimacy — all of it obscuring the power of its invisible algorithms. TikTok's addictive anti-aesthetic has already conquered ...
The U.S. Congress, fearing TikTok's Chinese owners are gathering information about American consumers, has passed a law requiring its owner, Chinese-backed ByteDance, to divest its TikTok in the U ...
Mace, who has over 90,000 TikTok followers, has argued that the legislation is an example of “government overreach,” writing on X, “Sure, some of TikTok’s content is ‘bad,’ but that is ...
In October 2020, TikTok users in Armenia reported a loss of app functionality, although it has not been confirmed whether this was the result of any intervention by the Armenian government in response to the use of the app by Azerbaijani sources to spread misinformation during the Second Nagorno-Karabakh war.
Researchers found the majority of problematic posts were created by young, white females, while professional voices did not have a strong presence. Around 67 percent of U.S. teens report using…
The result was that TikTok owner ByteDance—which initially planned on selling a small portion of TikTok to an American company—agreed to divest TikTok to prevent a ban in the United States and in other countries where restrictions are also being considered due to privacy concerns, which themselves are mostly related to its ownership by a ...
TikTok has lost its bid to strike down a law that could result in the platform being banned in the United States. A US appeals court upheld the law in a ruling Friday. Denying TikTok’s argument ...