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Update: This story has been amended to include comment from TikTok. Try searching for hashtags related to LGBT issues in countries like Russia, Bosnia, and Jordan on TikTok and you might find no results, even if you were able to see it on a friend’s post.That’s because the app is…

Sep 8, 2020 – 5.30pmAn influential Australian think tank has labelled social media platform TikTok a "powerful political actor", with wider influence than other Chinese-owned platforms due to its large user base of non-Chinese users.In a new report, TikTok and WeChat: Curating and controlling global information flows, the Australian Strategic…

It’s been a little over 60 days since the Indian Govt banned TikTok along with 59 other Chinese apps. The announcement was a bane for some and boon for others. A lot has happened since then - Apps like Chingari, Roposo, MitronTV are doing their best to provide an alternative.…

While filming herself getting ready for work recently, TikTok user @gracie.ham reached deep into the ancient foundations of mathematics and found an absolute gem of a question: How could someone come up with a concept like algebra? She also asked what the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras might have used mathematics…

Riverdale's leading ladies just made a TikTok account together, and they're already churning out some A+ content. While quarantining in Vancouver ahead of filming the fifth season of the show, Camila Mendes, Lili Reinhart, and Madelaine Petsch created a collective TikTok on Thursday to share how they've been staying busy.…

After weeks of threats, the president delivered an ultimatum to TikTok and its owner ByteDance: sell the app’s US operations to an American company or it would be banned. He gave the company little more than a month — until Sept. 15 — to find a buyer and figure out…

Courtesy of Loren Gray By Alex Blynn Before 18-year-old Loren Gray became known to the world as a leading voice among a generation of uber-famous teens who populate the massively popular social media platform TikTok, she was a small-town girl growing up outside of Philadelphia with a smartphone and a…

“A MAINSTREAM GIANT goes countercultural.” That is how the technology press described the decision in the early 2000s by IBM, then a paragon of corporate IT, to back Linux, an obscure operating system written by a ragtag collection of activist coders. In the event, the unnatural combination wound up being…

Microsoft earlier confirmed it's interested in acquiring the video app. Angela Lang/CNET Chinese tech giant ByteDance may be ready to give up its control of TikTok after all, with reports in recent days saying the social networking app's sale may be finalized soon.A deal for TikTok's US, New Zealand and…

TikTok’s high-profile search for a US buyer is hitting a roadblock after weeks of public negotiations and months of national security debates. A string of reports from Reuters, Bloomberg, and The Wall Street Journal describes a growing stalemate over the algorithm behind TikTok’s For You page, arguably the most important…