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Tag: TikTok

ByteDance’s Lemon8 gains traction amid TikTok ban threat as creators push the app

Have you been hearing a lot about Lemon8 lately? You're not alone. As a ban on TikTok looms in the US, content creators are promoting the platform's sister apps. Lemon8 resembles a fusion of the kind of short-form videos you see on TikTok and the picture-perfect aesthetics of Instagram and Pinterest. Like the popular Lemon8, […]

UK’s Ruling Labour Posted TikTok Lyrics About Drug Sex With ‘Young Girls’

Britain's ruling Labor Party's attempt to reach young voters comes as the government tries to woo an angry public after an attempt to capitalize on the TikTok trend backfired spectacularly. Lyrics about child sexual exploitation through “grooming” are definitely taking place in gangs seriously. Figures like Nigel Farage have shown that a strong social media […]

Kevin O’Leary wants to save TikTok by buying it and rewriting its algorithm

“Shark Tank” investor Kevin O'Leary said he is working on a deal to prevent popular social media platform TikTok from being banned in the United States over privacy concerns. Republican lawmakers have banned state and federal officials from using TikTok after numerous reports that it collects sensitive information from users and sends it to China's […]

Students ambushed soldier in ‘To Catch a Predator’ TikTok scheme: police

Five Massachusetts college students are facing criminal charges for allegedly luring soldiers onto their school campus and ambushing them with a TikTok trend inspired by “To Catch a Predator.” The five were among nearly 30 people who followed the man from an Assumption University building on Oct. 1 after he was asked out by a […]

Mob mocks, posts TikTok video of injured cop flung from fleeing woman’s car

A crowd of jubilant onlookers laughed, jeered and disrupted a video show as a police officer lay unconscious on the ground after being thrown from a speeding car while trying to arrest a woman in Texas early Friday morning. The Beaumont video first shows the woman running across the parking lot, jumping into a convertible, […]

France Detains Three Algerians over Calls for Violence on TikTok

(AFP) – French authorities on Sunday detained three Algerians on suspicion of inciting violence with TikTok videos, and at least two of them were charged with terrorism-related charges. The arrests come amid heightened political tensions between Paris and its former North African colony. A video blogger known as “Imad Tintin” was arrested on Friday outside […]

DOJ calls on Supreme Court to deny Trump's request to delay TikTok ban

The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Friday to deny President-elect Trump's request to delay a ruling on the TikTok ban, which is scheduled to go into effect the day before he takes office. Attorney General Merrick Garland Supported claims The platform, owned and operated by Chinese-owned company ByteDance, claims to be a threat […]