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There's been a Deepfake Tom Cruise TikTok account that's been going viral and the creator has finally come forward as Belgium VFX specialist Chris Ume. "You can't do it by just pressing a button," says Ume. "That's important, that's a message I want to tell people." Each clip took weeks…

TikTok is introducing new features meant to reduce bullying and harassment on its platform: new comment controls and in-app prompts to discourage nasty comments. The app is expanding its comment filtering tools to give users the ability to approve all new comments before they can appear underneath their clips. With…

Two more women have come forward saying that Jason Campbell, MD, formerly an anesthesia resident at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), came up behind them and pushed his body into theirs at work, according to a report in the Oregonian. The new allegations echo those made by a social…

The team behind Songclip thinks that social media could use more music. Yes, music is a big part of the experience on a handful of apps like TikTok and Triller, but Songclip co-founder and COO John vanSuchtelen told me, “That is not the end of how music is going to…

In the span of three months, Jay Edelson has helped upend the career of Tom Girardi, wrested $650 million from Facebook, and thrown a wrench into a planned $92 million settlement with TikTok. But Edelson says his ambition is bigger: He wants to reshape the class action system that’s made…

Photo: Maridav (Shutterstock)From meal plans to high-end fashion, everything is for sale on social media, so you might not be surprised that ABC News reported millennials are using the video app TikTok to find apartments. I was reminded of how Craigslist became a leader in cheap online rentals before gaining…

On a typical pandemic Thursday night, I found myself scrolling through TikTok. This has turned into the guilty pleasure of my life. Sometimes you need something to do that will make you forget about your own problems and work. On this particular day, I came across a young woman talking…

By Emilee Lindner What determines a Grammy-winning tune? Is it how many weeks a ditty spent on the Billboard Hot 100, how much money it made, or how musically endearing an anonymous group of Recording Academy voters deems it to be? Consider them all. But when it comes to declaring…

Twitter,  Youtube and Instagram have been the major social media tools to attract Esports fans. But none of them are as good as TikTok. Yet, TikTok only gets a fraction of the attention it should, considering the size of untapped audience using the service. Why has TikTok become such a…

Some people will do anything to go viral, from silly pranks to extreme stunts—nothing is off-limits. TikTok trends generally involve fun dance routines or funny filters, but every now and then a dangerous challenge or trend will emerge. From users swerving their cars as they follow instructions from "Cha Cha…