TikTok Facing Federal Lawsuit Over Alleged Child Privacy Violations
In this photo illustration, the logo of social media app TikTok is displayed on an iPhone screen against an American flag background. (Photo: OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images) By Blake Wolf, OAN StaffFriday, August 2, 2024 2:57 PM TikTok and its parent company ByteDance are bracing themselves after the US Department of Justice (DOJ) formally […]
TikTok hit with DOJ lawsuit claiming it violated children’s privacy
The Justice Department sued TikTok on Friday, accusing the company of violating the Children’s Online Privacy Act and a settlement it reached with another federal agency. The complaint, filed jointly with the Federal Trade Commission in federal court in California, comes as the United States and the social media giant are embroiled in a new […]
Simone Biles shares celebratory TikTok after Olympics triumph
Simone Biles had plenty to celebrate on Sunday after a strong showing in the individual all-around qualifying for the 2024 Paris Olympics. In a steamy video shared on her TikTok page, Biles, who earned a total score of 59.566 points to put Team USA in the lead with 172.296 points, can be seen dancing in […]
Justice Department accuses TikTok of gathering American user data on social issues like abortion, gun control
Billionaire Frank McCourt Jr. talks to “The Craman Countdown” about his quest to buy the social media giant. The Justice Department alleges that TikTok collects information about its U.S. users and their opinions on social issues like gun control, abortion and religion, and transmits it to engineers in China. According to documents filed with the […]
Justice Department says TikTok collected user data on social issues
As part of its argument in support of legislation recently signed by President Biden that could force the shutdown of TikTok, the Justice Department has argued that the social media app transmits information about Americans’ social views to Chinese engineers. In a brief filed Friday night, examination According to the Associated Press, the Justice Department […]
Women on TikTok are proudly flaunting their ‘ugly privilege’
Sure, being beautiful has its perks, but have you ever heard of the term “ugly privilege”? women are Celebrating average looks onlinedefending their mediocre genes as a deterrent Unwanted male attention. “When I say I have ‘ugly privilege,’ I don’t necessarily think of myself as an ugly person,” one creator who goes by the name […]
Justice Department says TikTok collected US user views on issues like abortion and gun control
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a fresh broadside against one of the world’s most popular technology companies, the Justice Department late Friday accused TikTok of harnessing the capability to gather bulk information on users based on views on divisive social issues like gun control, abortion and religion. Government lawyers wrote in documents filed to the federal […]
CCP-Linked TikTok Collected Data Of American Users’ Political Views, DOJ Says
The Department of Justice (DOJ) alleged on Friday that TikTok and its Chinese parent company collected sensitive data from their American users, according to court filings. The DOJ alleged in court filings that TikTok had been collecting Americans’ user data on their views regarding sensitive topics like abortion, gun control and religion, arguing that the […]
Kamala Harris’ TikTok Splash Looks Huge Until You See Donald Trump’s Follower Count
Vice President Kamala Harris made waves this week when she launched a TikTok account, but that hasn’t done much to dispel former President Donald Trump’s outsized influence on the platform. Harris She launched her TikTok account on Thursday and in just 24 hours, she has gained over 2 million followers and over 6.3 million likes […]
China Denies Bringing A/C to Paris Olympics, Defying ‘Green’ Village, After Videos Surface on TikTok
China’s delegation to the 2024 Summer Olympics denied on Thursday that it had brought air conditioners to Paris after a video that appeared to show Chinese staff loading hundreds of them onto a plane was leaked on Chinese social media app Douyin (TikTok). Reports that the Chinese Communist Party had approved sending its Olympic athletes […]