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              • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
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                Tech’s climate cost and TikTok’s day in court Premium content

                The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

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              • Monday, 16 September, 2024
                TikTok warns of ‘staggering’ consequences from US divest-or-ban law

                App’s lawyer urges a federal appeals court to throw out rule requiring its Chinese owner to divest it or be shut down

                A TikTok advocate wears a button showing support for the app outside of the courthouse in Washington where the appeal is being hear
              • Monday, 26 August, 2024
                Nilanjana Roy
                Give me Instapoetry — and something more substantial too

                Bite-sized verse has its place, but two new anthologies offer a chance for deeper engagement with poetic traditions

                A poet recites verse at a public poetry reading
              • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
                Jo Ellison
                ‘Demurity’ and the memeification of modern life

                TikTok memes may be silly, but they’re also the great social emollient of the 2020s

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              • Friday, 23 August, 2024
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                Could a high-cost monthly intervention do more for your appearance than a complex daily regime?

              • Monday, 12 August, 2024
                Misleading TikTok alerts include false Taylor Swift claim and old tsunami warning

                Inaccurate push notifications increase fears about spread of misinformation on video-sharing platform

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              • Friday, 2 August, 2024
                US sues TikTok over ‘widespread violations’ of child privacy law

                Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission bring lawsuit against popular video app and its Chinese parent

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              • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
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                ADHD cases in women hit record level as TikTok videos raise awareness

                Huge rise in prescriptions for women aged 25 to 34 in England driven by social media highlighting symptoms

                Screengrabs from TikTok of videos about ADHD
              • Saturday, 27 July, 2024
                US reveals security concerns around TikTok and ByteDance

                Department of Justice alleges sensitive American user data was stored in China

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              • Friday, 28 June, 2024
                Claer Barrett
                Dress, nails, spray tan, helicopter: have school proms gone too far?

                Parents will stop at nothing to help their children celebrate the end of exam season

                A group of girls posing and taking a selfie before a school prom
              • Sunday, 23 June, 2024
                TikTok advertisers prepare contingency plans as US ban looms

                Agency heads say row over security of ByteDance-owned app has already hit brands’ confidence in the platform

              • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
                TikTok child privacy complaint referred to US justice department

                Federal Trade Commission also investigating Chinese video app over potential breaches of act outlawing ‘unfair practices’

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              • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
                Lex
                What the Trump effect means for TikTok Premium content

                US has become one of the biggest revenue generators for owner ByteDance — which helps make a listing complicated

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              • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
                UK general election 2024
                Labour goes viral as it pulls ahead of Tories on TikTok

                Key social media battleground formally prohibits political advertising

                Screenshots of TikTok videos from the Labour and the Tory campaign
              • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
                Gillian Tett
                There is a new twist in the TikTok tale

                A ‘people’s bid’ for the app raises profound questions about how we live online

                Illustration of the US Capitol building with the TikTok logo colours
              • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
                Artificial intelligence
                TikTok to automatically label AI-generated user content in global first

                Social media companies under pressure to identify deepfakes and prevent spread of misinformation

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              • Tuesday, 7 May, 2024
                TikTok challenges ‘extreme’ US divest-or-ban bill in court

                Lawsuit including parent company ByteDance claims legislation would breach free speech rights

                A TikTok content creator at the US Capitol in Washington, with a sign reading ‘TikTok changed my life for the better’
              • Monday, 6 May, 2024
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                BookTok’s influence on publishing is set to last

                Social media has produced growth for once-niche genres and boosted authors little known to mainstream audiences

                Montage with Bloomsbury logo, cover of Sarah J Maas’s ‘House of Earth and Blood’ and Samantha Shannon’s ‘A Day of Fallen Night’
              • Friday, 3 May, 2024
                Lex
                TikTok ban will accelerate the ‘splinternet’ Premium content

                Other apps could be in the line of fire if US lawmakers carry out their threat

                Montage of US and China flags with Tiktok signage
              • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
                John Thornhill
                What TikTok and Tesla tell us about pragmatism in the US and China

                Both Washington and Beijing juggle security fears with commercial interests and political influence in their policy positions

              • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
                Universal Music Group
                Universal Music ends boycott of TikTok with new licensing deal

                Agreement will mean ‘improved remuneration’ for songwriters and artists, says world’s largest record group

                Taylor Swift performing in Singapore in March
              • Thursday, 25 April, 2024
                Business InsightRichard Waters
                Meta’s gamble on chatbots opens new wave of tech competition

                Zuckerberg’s AI plans may have knocked its stock market value, but he hopes his next venture will have dramatic impact

                Hand reaches out to shake robot’s hand in front of a Meta AI logo
              • Thursday, 25 April, 2024
                News in-depth
                How TikTok’s Chinese owner tightened its grip on the app

                Insiders say ByteDance exerting increasing influence over platform despite US pressure over ownership

                TikTok logo and users with China and US flag
              • Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
                Biden campaign will continue to use TikTok despite divest-or-ban law

                US president’s campaign has posted on Chinese-owned video app in attempt to appeal to younger voters

                The TikTok logo
              • Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
                Explainer
                What’s next for TikTok after Biden approves ban

                Video app vows legal battle to prevent effort to separate it from Chinese parent

                A montage of the TikTok logo, the US Capitol building and a woman holding a sign in support of TikTok
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