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TikTok has been hit by China's worsening diplomatic relations around the world, with calls to ban the mobile app which features an unending loop of 15-second videos of users lip syncing and dancing and has an estimated 1.6 million users in Australia.TikTok is currently facing two federal inquiries. A Senate…

Image: Prakash Singh/AFP (Getty Images)This is the story of a microvlogging app that nobody had heard of two years ago, and how it lured the world’s teens with karaoke, gobbled up their data, ballooned to monstrous proportions, and, finally, became a geopolitical bargaining chip in an escalating feud between the world’s…

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionOnline eating disorder 'trigger' crack-down callSocial media app TikTok could encourage unhealthy relationships with food and trigger people who have suffered eating disorders, campaigners have said.The video app is one of the most popular in the world, with more than 800m users…

Mashable is celebrating Pride Month by exploring the modern LGBTQ world, from the people who make up the community to the spaces where they congregate, both online and off. If you've been on TikTok long enough, you're probably familiar with Alt TikTok. If you haven't heard of that term before,…

The first thing you see when you open TikTok is the platform’s For You page: an endless stream of videos uniquely tailored to each user. No two feeds are exactly the same, but as TikTok has exploded in popularity—the app has now been downloaded over 2 billion times—the For You…

Chinese internet giant ByteDance has announced plans to discontinue two of its apps in India, its biggest overseas market, and urged users to move to TikTok. Vigo Video and Vigo Lite, two apps that allow users to create and share short-form sketches and lip-syncing to Bollywood songs, posted a message…

The hoped-for reports would detail both efforts to limit COVID-19 falsehoods, including ads, as well as steps taken to promote trustworthy material.Internet companies might not need that much prodding, mind you. Jourova added that TikTok was joining the EU’s voluntary Code of Practice on Disinformation (where Facebook, Google, Mozilla and…

Source: Android CentralWhat you need to knowThe EU wants Google, Facebook, and Twitter to do more to fight fake news. Two officials called on the firms to provide monthly reports to the bloc. They also called out China and Russia for their roles in spreading fake news. Two EU officials…

Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones, the founder of $21 billion Tudor Investment Corp., compared the coronavirus pandemic to decades-old film "The Day The Earth Stood Still" in a call hosted by the Economic Club of New York.He said the pandemic has thrown off economic models so much that people would "be…