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On a hot summer day in Yangon, J. Paing never could have imagined that he was about to experience one of the most excruciating episodes of his life. “The moment of witnessing protestors being shot dead by security forces was heartbreaking. Even though I am an experienced journalist, I couldn’t…

Less than a month after we learned about a creepy privacy change that the parent company of the TikTok app implemented for the popular service — raising concerns immediately among people who’ve long suspected the app of having a too-close relationship with its Chinese parent company, ByteDance — some TikTok…

City Girls were among the performers at the 2021 BET Awards tonight. They performed “Twerkulator,” a song that gained traction on TikTok upon its leak before its official release. The song samples Afrika Bambaataa’s “Planet Rock,” and, as expected, the show’s stage was packed end to end with twerking dancers.…

Ed Sheeran debuted his new song, Bad Habits, during a live performance at Ipswich Town's football stadium in the U.K. on Friday. The Castle on the Hill star, who is a supporter of the soccer club and new sponsor, performed as part of TikTok's UEFA Euro 2020 Show on social…

It's hard out here for millennials. We can't afford to buy houses, we're ruining the diamond/cereal/auto industries, and if you ask Zoomers, we're a bunch of dorks. Those pesky, barely legal TikTokers have got us feeling middle-aged by the time we're 30. I'm not a "geriatric" millennial, because that makes…

Zachary Knowles shares new single and lyric video ‘Stranger To Me’ out now Zachary Knowles Rising artist and tender pop creator, Zachary Knowles, recently announced his debut album, tendency to be a loner, due out Aug. 6 via FADER Label. Today, he shares the second single from the forthcoming release,…

A Dutch consumer group demanded Thursday that TikTok pay more than $1 million after alleged data privacy breaches against Dutch children, the Associated Press reported. The Consumentenbond and the Take Back Your Privacy foundation filed the claim on behalf of 1.2 to 1.6 million young Dutch users of the app…

Kim Komando  |  Special to USA TODAY Apps used to be fun add-ons to get the most out of your phone. Today, they’re vital to our everyday communication, work, and play. Sadly, it seems like every week, there’s another list of bad apps causing headaches or putting your security at…

"I'm f**king sick of it." Mireya Acierto / FilmMagic / Via Getty Images, Amanda Edwards / WireImage / Via Getty Images Chastain set the record straight when she posted a hilarious TikTok earlier today of her mouthing the words of KingDiaaa2’s iconic "Sick of It" video. @jes_chastain This isn’t the…

But now those hopes have been dashed. The results were particularly hard to swallow for ByteDance employees who voted in favor of not working on weekends anymore. In an interview with AI Caijing (in Chinese), an online publication about Chinese economics and business, an engineer at ByteDance, who described himself…