Users of the video-editing app are on the warpath after the House of Representatives approved a bill that would force ByteDance to sell the social network to a U.S. company
The House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban the app in the U.S. if its China-based owner doesn’t sell it on concerns that TikTok is a national security threat
The bill, supported by Republicans and Democrats and which now faces the Senate, would force ByteDance, the company that owns the Chinese video social network, to divest its stakes
As president, Trump attempted to ban TikTok through an executive order that called ‘the spread in the United States of mobile applications developed and owned by companies in the People’s Republic of China’ a threat to ‘the national security’
Preteens are flocking to cosmetics stores, driven by the popularity of online skincare tutorials, with detrimental effects on their skin and mental health
The move targets commercial data brokers, the sometimes shadowy companies that traffic in personal data and that officials say may sell information to foreign adversaries
Laws signed in Florida and Texas in 2021 aimed to address conservative complaints that the social media companies were liberal-leaning and censored users based on their viewpoints, especially on the political right
The state Senate passes a bill that targets any social media site that tracks user activity, allows children to upload material and interact with others, and uses addictive features
With their infallible tricks, the influencers of the domestic field have turned an orderly home into a fun and, at times, therapeutic enterprise, which has even caught on with some Hollywood stars
The companies aren’t committing to ban or remove deepfakes. Instead, the accord outlines methods they will use to try to detect and label deceptive AI content when it is created or distributed on their platforms
Members of the Alpha generation are garnering millions of views on social media. We spoke with experts about the potential consequences of this overexposure
Democrats raised a range of concerns, including questions about enforceability and whether the government — rather than parents — should be responsible for limiting children’s access to social media
The recommendations come after it reviewed an altered clip of President Biden and his adult granddaughter that was altered to remove the important context, making it seem as if he touched her inappropriately
Social media stars no longer show off their Loewe bags or Lamborghinis, but rather the aseptic apartments in which they invest. They are directing their money towards a refuge value that is, at the same time, something with a lot of social value: housing