TikTok
U.S. Government Expands Fight Against TikTok With New Lawsuit
In an escalation of scrutiny, TikTok has been sued by the government for violating a federal law intended to protect children’s privacy online. The Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission, in a lawsuit filed in the Central District of California on Friday, sued TikTok and Chinese parent company ByteDance over illegally collecting personal information on […]
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TikTok Fined $2.4M by U.K. Media Regulator Over Inaccurate Safety Data
Ofcom, the U.K.’s media regulator, has on Wednesday fined social media app TikTok £1.875 million ($2.4 million) for failing to accurately and swiftly respond to a request for information on the platform’s parental controls safety feature. Its investigation uncovered “a number” of failings in the video-sharing platform’s data governance process. TikTok, it said, had insufficient […]
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Hawk Tuah Girl’s New Manager Reveals What’s Next for Her: “There Are Endless Opportunities”
A viral TikTok of Haliey Welch, aka “Hawk Tuah Girl,” making a sexy joke while partying in Nashville has become the gift that keeps on giving — and not just for Welch herself. As anyone with access to social media in the past few weeks can attest, Welch has been just about as ubiquitous as […]
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TikTok Threatened With New Lawsuit As National Ban Fight Intensifies
TikTok may be facing a new lawsuit over alleged violations of a federal law intended to protect children’s privacy online as it fights a First Amendment legal battle against the U.S. government challenging a national ban on the social media platform. The Federal Trade Commission, in a statement issued on Tuesday, said that an investigation […]
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Courteney Cox Re-Creates Dance From Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark” Video for TikTok Trend
Courteney Cox re-created her “Dancing in the Dark” dance for a TikTok trend. In recent weeks, TikTokers have taken to asking their moms how they danced in the 1980s and posting videos, many of which are backed by the 1984 song “Smalltown Boy,” by Bronski Beat. Cox, of course, famously got her start by appearing […]
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Banff Boss Brings It On
It’s perhaps fitting that as top TV creators and execs facing an industrywide contraction head to the Canadian Rockies for the 2024 Banff World Media Festival, one of the panels they will encounter is called “Moving Mountains: Canadian Producers Tackle the Rocky Landscape.” Indeed, this year’s confab, which focuses on content in the development phase, […]
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Mariah Carey on New Audible Podcast and Not Always Getting Her Credit As a Songwriter: “I Don’t Really Care”
It’s new Mariah Carey music week. The singer dropped her remix to Muni Long’s viral TikTok hit, “Made for Me,” on Wednesday and, a day later, she is releasing Portrait of a Portrait: Words + Music, the Audible Original podcast where the star unpacks her deeply personal 2018 song, “Portrait,” and unveils a new dance […]
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‘Deadly Influence’ Docuseries on Social Media Murders Set at ID (Exclusive)
Murder sparked by bizarre online posts or obsessions? There’s an app for that. So says Investigation Discovery’s latest docuseries, Deadly Influence: The Social Media Murders, set for a June premiere on ID and Max. A new trailer (below) for the ID six-parter points to social media posts and communities getting dangerous and destructive as they […]
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Universal Music Group CEO On New TikTok Deal: “Human Artistry Must Be Respected”
Universal Music Group chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge has applauded a new music licensing deal with TikTok which ends a recent months-long standoff over royalties to be paid out around the social media platform. “It’s another significant step we’ve taken to guide the industry’s evolution to a future where human artistry must be respected,” Grainge […]
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Universal Music Group and TikTok Strike New Music Licensing Agreement
Universal Music Group and TikTok have announced a new “multi-dimensional licensing agreement” that will bring to an end a dispute over royalties that saw music from UMG artists such as Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga and Drake pulled from the social media platform. Under the agreement, UMG says that its “global family of artists, songwriters and […]
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TikTok CEO Reacts to Law That Could Ban App: “We Aren’t Going Anywhere”
On Wednesday morning, President Biden signed into law a national security bill that would force TikTok to be sold by its owner, ByteDance, or face a possible ban in the United States. Minutes later, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew responded with a video posted to the platform, declaring that “rest assured, we aren’t going anywhere.” […]
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Senate Passes Bill Forcing TikTok’s Parent Company to Sell or Face Ban
The Senate passed legislation Tuesday that would force TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell the social media platform under the threat of a ban, a contentious move by U.S. lawmakers that’s expected to face legal challenges and disrupt the lives of content creators who rely on the short-form video app for income. The TikTok legislation […]
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