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Buzz·Posted on 22 June 2022 "In which course do they teach you to assault minorities? Asking for a friend." As more brands, institutions, and even government bodies attempt to dip their toes into the youth-infested pool that is TikTok, an avalanche of PR disasters awaits around every corner. I cannot…

TikTok said it has made changes to its storage of Americans’ data following new allegations that the platform’s China-based parent company accessed U.S. users’ data. Engineers in China had access to U.S. data between September 2021 and January 2022, according to leaked audio from more than 80 internal TikTok meetings…

TikTok owner ByteDance is set to lay off around 3,000 staff from its edtech business, China Star Market cited sources from the firm in a June 18 report. The report stated that all teams in ByteDance’s edtech sector apart from those targeting adult education are due to be disbanded, leaving…

June 20, 2022published at 10:29 AMBySyarifah Nadhirah We all have our rainy days, but one man took that saying to another level when he was spotted lying on the ground at Ang Mo Kio Avenue 4 in a video that has since gone viral with 181,800 views and 20,800 likes. The 15-second…

TikTok's wellness world has been rife with people eating sea moss gel out of glass jars. "Started taking sea moss gel about 3-4 weeks ago and now my skin is glowing more than ever before," one LA holistic nutritionist wrote on TikTok. "Energy levels are higher & gut health is…

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It’s no secret that Facebook, with Mark Zuckerberg steering the ship, has long been attuned to rival products capable of diminishing its social networking dominance. Put simply, if people are chatting or sharing media content, Facebook desperately wants it to happen under its own umbrella. This all-encompassing strategy became evident…

Elon Musk believes that the list of his enemies is short.  In any case, that's what he said on the microblogging site Twitter on June 4.  It goes without saying that at the speed with which he launches attacks against his peers as well as against the rivals of his…

I feel like with these tools, there's some backdoor to access user data in almost all of them, said an external auditor hired to help TikTok close off Chinese access to sensitive information, like Americans' birthdays and phone numbers. Read Full Article » Read More

Nattakorn_Maneerat/Shutterstock Apps are notorious for taking up a lot of space on your phone — and the wildly popular social media app TikTok is no exception. A quick search on Reddit  shows that many people complain about how TikTok takes up storage on their Android or Apple device, and are…