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Inside TikTok’s Money Squeeze on Independent Labels: ‘This Is a Classic Divide-and-Conquer Situation’
Earlier this year, when TikTok and Universal Music Group locked horns over their licensing agreement — and the world’s largest music company removed nearly all of its artists and songwriters ...
The Verge1mon
TikTok hit by over a dozen state lawsuits for allegedly harming teens
Attorneys general from 14 states and districts sued TikTok for allegedly harming kids’ mental health and misleading the public about how safe its platform is. The bipartisan group of AGs ...
CNN11d
TikTok’s founder is now China’s richest person. But the country’s total number of billionaires has shrunk
China has a new richest person – and it’s the entrepreneur behind the wildly popular, and controversial, app TikTok. Zhang Yiming, 41, co-founder of TikTok’s parent company ByteDance ...
CNN29d
Sealed TikTok court documents show time limit tool effectively did nothing to reduce teen usage, NPR reports
A screen-time limit tool on TikTok doesn’t work in limiting teen usage, the company’s own analysis reportedly found, according to in unredacted documents accidentally revealed as part of a ...
Reuters1mon
TikTok sued by 13 states and DC, accused of harming younger users
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - TikTok faces new lawsuits filed by 13 U.S. states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday, accusing the popular social media platform of harming and failing ...
BBC10mon
TikTok: The story of a social media giant
President Donald Trump has warned that he will ban TikTok unless an American firm buys its US operations. So how did an app attract millions of users but come to be seen as a national security ...
Business Insider8mon
The TikTok ban chaos — explained in 60 seconds
A new bill working its way through Congress could ban TikTok in the US. Donald Trump, who used to want to ban TikTok in the US, now says he'd like it to be here. And some people who support the ...
TechCrunch28d
TikTok’s research reportedly acknowledges negative effects on teens
Court documents suggest that TikTok executives are aware of the app’s potential harm to teenagers, according to reporting by NPR and Kentucky Public Radio. Fourteen U.S. attorneys general sued ...
Meet ZachXBT, the Masked Vigilante Tracking Down Billions in Crypto Scams and Thefts
He just untangled a $243 million bitcoin theft, what may be the biggest-ever crypto heist to target a single victim. And he has never shown his face.
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TikTok’s Owner Already Publishes Digital Books. Now It Is Moving Into Print.
ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant that owns TikTok, will focus its publisher, 8th Note Press, on popular genres such as romance, romantasy and young adult fiction. By Alexandra Alter ByteDance ...
The Washington Post2y
How TikTok ate the internet
Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. On the night Shelby Renae first went viral on TikTok, she felt so giddy ...