TikTok

There’s no denying TikTok’s growing popularity. In a Sensor Tower report on Store Intelligence Data for Q1 2022, TikTok was named the top downloaded app worldwide. Surpassing Instagram for this spot, it reached 3.5 billion all-time downloads in Q1 last year. This made it the first app to cross that…

April 25, 2022 | 6:00pm Enlarge Image TikTok star Tinx apologized to Kim Kardashian and other celebrities after controversial tweets resurfaced over the weekend. Getty Tinx has issued an apology to Kim Kardashian and other celebrities for a series of fat-phobic tweets that resurfaced over the weekend. “About 10 years…

Julie Gao (Source: Skadden) Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio TikTok-owner ByteDance has appointed Julie Gao from international law firm Skadden as its new chief financial officer (CFO), according to an internal memo sent by ByteDance chief executive Liang Rubo on Monday. Gao will be based in Hong Kong and…

Jennifer Stone and Selena Gomez on ‘The Wizards Of Waverly Place.’ Mitchell Haddad/Disney Channel/Kobal/ShutterstockReunion magic! Selena Gomez, whose TikTok parodies have broken the Internet several times over, enlisted her former Wizards of Waverly Place costar Jennifer Stone to recreate their iconic song. “What’s that? A hat? Crazy, funky, junky hat,” Gomez and…

Joseph Baena has been following in his famous father's footsteps in more ways than one. In addition to pursuing a career as an actor, Baena is also taking some cues from his dad Arnold Schwarzenegger in the gym. The pair work out frequently together at the bodybuilding mecca that is…

The European Union approved new legislation that would pressure big tech giants like Meta, Google and Twitter to enforce illegal content on their platforms or potentially risk paying billions in fines. After some 16 hours of negotiations, the EU reached a deal early Saturday in Brussels on the Digital Services Act,…

The majority of TikTok users use the app to consume the content from others, and many of the videos that rise to the top of the For You page feature filters created by the platform. With Effect House (beta) TikTok is enabling creators to create their own filters. Their new…

An Afghan 'migrant' who boasted about illegally crossing the Channel in a dinghy then posted grinning photos of himself from Britain is a TikTok 'influencer' who wears flashy clothes and works in a popular French ski resort town, MailOnline can exclusively reveal. DG Usama, who is originally from the Afghan…

On Tuesday, Washington Post internet culture reporter Taylor Lorenz came under fire for revealing the identity of a woman who has been cowering behind her computer screen to share anti-LGBTQ content anonymously. The woman, Chaya Raichik, is, according to The Post, responsible for Libs of TikTok. It’s an influential account…

Instagram has moved to defend itself against TikTok, announcing a ranking change that will push videos - reposted from the rival social network or copied from other users — down the feed of posts its displays. The head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, announced the change overnight, AEST, and described it…