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TikTok is the wildly popular short-video social platform owned by ByteDance. Coverage here includes new features, creator and culture trends, privacy and security concerns, and the ongoing regulatory and ownership battles in the US and beyond. Follow this tag to keep up with one of the most influential apps in the world.
A viral claim said a leaked NASA document called Project Anchor warned Earth would lose gravity for seven seconds on August 12, 2026. NASA denied it, physics rules it out, and the date was chosen for a reason that explains the whole thing.
A new NeuroImage study scanned 56 people while they watched short videos. When a clip landed, two of the brain’s cognitive control hubs went quiet. Here is exactly what that shows, and the four things it does not.
In September, Donald Trump claimed that “the United States is getting a tremendous fee” for brokering the TikTok deal. Now…
For the second time this year, U.S. TikTok creators, “may temporarily experience lags in posting content,” TikTok U.S. said Tuesday…
The US version of TikTok is once again experiencing issues due to an Oracle outage, just a month after coming…
TikTok announced on Wednesday that it’s launching “Local Feeds,” an opt-in feature that uses precise GPS location data to create…
EU says TikTok must disable ‘addictive’ features like infinite scroll, fix its recommendation engine
The European Commission on Friday accused TikTok of purposefully designing its app for being “addictive,” calling out features such as…
ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, recently established a separate American entity to run the app’s U.S. operations. This restructuring aims…
Starting early Sunday morning, TikTok’s now under new ownership US arm started breaking down just a couple of days after…
As the app comes back online, users have also taken note that TikTok is collecting more of their data under…
