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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: TikTok app is seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) -TikTok accused the European Commission on Friday of failing to consult it over a decision to ban the Chinese short video sharing app from…

The invasion of Ukraine is not the first war to be documented on social media, but it is uniquely positioned to be the most viral. One year after the Russian invasion began, keeping the conflict in global consciousness is crucial for Ukraine to ensure financial support. The war for our attention…

When coffee reviewer Kristen Alk pulled up to order at her local Starbucks drive-thru, she did what so many TikTokers have done in recent months — she ordered a "surprise me drink." The idea behind the #surprisemedrink trend is to give the barista a chance to get creative and deliver…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II, and the first to see algorithms and TikTok videos deployed alongside fighter planes and tanks. The online fight has played out on computer screens and smartphones around the globe as Russia used disinformation,…

It's definitely frowned upon to openly pick a favorite child, but these pets don't care about the rules as they make it obvious who they prefer. Photographer Rebekah Laskowski from Madisonville, Kentucky, recorded her miniature dachshund Oscar, and the family cat, Fat Rhonda, each waiting outside the bedroom door of…

A farmer at an animal rescue sanctuary has captured the moment she found a cat and a rabbit in her care raising their respective litters together. In the now-viral TikTok video, the cat and the rabbit, living at Roberson Creek Farm in North Carolina can be seen parenting their young…

As central as these people have been to the short-form video’s app’s success over the last two years, they don’t necessarily feel like they’ve been compensated for it. They’re no longer seeing the platform through the rose tinted glasses they once did. These growing frustrations have caused creators to start…

Will Smith, 54, appeared to reference the infamous slap he gave Chris Rock for joking about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, at the 2022 Academy Awards, in a new TikTok video. The actor, who won an Oscar after the viral moment on stage happened, posted a duet clip with Sam…

As part of its ongoing effort to show US regulators that it’s totally transparent, and completely willing to work with them on compromises to remain in operation in the region, TikTok has today announced that it will now allow more researchers to access and analyze its dataset, in order to…

Photo Credit: Filip Spotify has some big changes incoming. Will it adopt a vertical scrolling homepage like TikTok? It’s likely.The Stream On event in Los Angeles in March will be where Spotify introduces its latest features. Bloomberg reports that one of those features is a vertically swiped homepage that operates…