Tag: TikTok (ByteDance)
F.D.A. Warning on NyQuil Chicken Alerts Many to Existence of NyQuil Chicken
A truism of the internet, central to the work of researchers who study the spread of dangerous trends…
Social Media Companies Still Boost Election Fraud Claims, Report Says
The major social media companies all say they are ready to deal with a torrent of misinformation surrounding…
Snapchat Introduces Its First Parental Controls
SAN FRANCISCO — Snapchat, the ephemeral messaging app, introduced its first parental controls on Tuesday, as social media…
A Stranger Filmed Her on the Train. TikTok Users Decided She Had Monkeypox.
Lilly Simon, a 33-year-old in Brooklyn, does not have monkeypox. She does have neurofibromatosis type 1, a genetic…
Instagram rolls back some product changes after user backlash.
Instagram said on Thursday that it was rolling back several recent updates to its photo-sharing app after Kylie…
Instagram, Facing Criticism From Kylie Jenner and Others, Tries Explaining Itself
Instagram versus the Great Celebrity Gang-Up?The photo-sharing app, which is owned by Meta, found itself under fire this…
Meta tweaks Facebook app to act more like TikTok.
For most of Facebook’s history, its executives have executed a tried-and-true playbook: Mimic the success of others.On Thursday,…
Can’t Talk, I’m Busy Being Hot
Edwyna Estime was wearing a heavy, shapeless graduation gown. It was the color of charcoal and it reached…
Beach Bunny Is Building an Indie-Rock Career in a Time of TikTok
One morning last August, Lili Trifilio was feeling emotional.“I’m honestly so nervous,” the singer-songwriter, then 24, admitted, her…
Parents Sue TikTok, Saying Children Died After Viewing ‘Blackout Challenge’
“Elementary-school-aged children do not have the knowledge or the insight to realize that these are dangerous things to…
Lawmakers Ask F.T.C. Chair to Investigate TikTok’s Data Practices
The leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee asked the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday to investigate whether TikTok,…
TikTok tells Republican senators how it plans to keep American data away from China.
TikTok gave U.S. lawmakers more details in a letter dated Thursday about how it plans to keep data…