TikTok May Split With China-Based ByteDance To Avoid U.S. Ban, Report Says

Topline TikTok’s American leadership is exploring a potential split with Chinese parent company ByteDance as it comes under increasing scrutiny from lawmakers and regulators about the company’s links ...

How Spotify, Instagram, Twitter And More Are Copying Features Like The ‘For You’ Page

Topline Social media platforms have a long history of lifting ideas from each other, but as TikTok continues to explode in popularity, competing platforms like Instagram, YouTube and even Spotify are ...

Nauseating Harassment of TikTok Presumes Americans Will Be Saved From Chinese Authoritarianism If U.S. Politicians Act Like Chinese Authoritarians

Oneonta, a town of 7,000 in Alabama, can lay claim to a TikTok account that has 117,000 followers. The driver of the town’s popularity on the wildly popular social media site is Mayor Richard Phillips...

SNAP Stock Price Pumps as Lawmakers Slice Snapchat’s Rival TikTok

SNAP stock price elevated by more than 25% after the US lawmakers prepared legislation for banning TikTok in the States. SNAP stock price saw an uplift after TikTok, owned by ByteDance, sparked concer...

The Herbal Supplement Blows Up On TikTok—Without Much Medical Research Support

Topline Ashwagandha is the latest viral health trend on TikTok, where vidoes of users praising the herbal supplement’s stress relieving effects are finding huge audiences—though others say it’s left t...

How Deema Abu Naser Launched A Career From Her Love Of K-Dramas

Deema Abu Naser spoke at the first k-drama panel at the Middle East Film and Comic Con in Dubai. Deema Abu Naser When Deema Abu Naser first began watching Korean dramas, her friends were not that rece...

How TikTok Crypto Influencers Drive Massive Engagement in 2023

Staying on top of the crypto market means keeping up-to-date with the latest trends and insights. But watching long and complex content on social media might turn away beginner investors. This is why ...

TikTok CEO Is Quietly Meeting With Lawmakers Ahead Of First-Ever Testimony

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is pursuing closed-door meetings with several of the House lawmakers he must answer to at a hearing later this month. © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP Shou Zi Chew is making the rou...

ByteDance Employees Can Easily Access U.S. TikTok Data, Whistleblower Allegedly Tells Hawley

Topline Controls preventing employees at TikTok and its China-based parent company ByteDance from accessing U.S. data might be weaker than both companies have previously suggested, according to allega...

The Risk For Brands On TikTok Keeps Growing

TikTok is known for short videos of dancers but brands are increasingly using it to attract new … [+] customers. getty Earlier today, Axios reported that Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Misso...

How TikTok Users Are Mobilizing Against Proposed Alaska Oil Drilling Project

Topline Social media users have rallied against a proposed oil drilling project in northern Alaska over the past week, using the #stopwillow TikTok hashtag to educate viewers on the project’s potentia...

TikTok Gives Some Creators Ability To Put Videos Behind A Paywall

Topline TikTok announced a new capability on Tuesday that allows some creators to charge for access to longer, exclusive videos, bringing a service offered by competitors like Patreon and Onlyfans dir...

Snap Stock surged 9%, Snapchat now with ChatGPT, TikTok Ban

Snap stock gained 9.48% on a single day while it is up by 14% at time of day high Snap stock price see turnaround after Snapchat launched My AI chatbot integrated with ChatGPT Snapchat shares soared a...

The Selena Gomez And Hailey Bieber Social Media Drama, Explained

Topline The swirling rumors of a feud between Justin Bieber’s wife and his ex-girlfriend reached a fever pitch Sunday, as Bieber posted photos from his 29th birthday party and fans combed his so...

Tesla, Spotify and TikTok Can Benefit From This Chainlink (LINK) Release

Vladislav Sopov Chainlink (LINK) representative Michael Robinson indicated ways major global corporations can leverage novel Chainlink Functions toolkit Contents Chainlink Functions can be integrated ...

US Senate Poised to Greenlight Bill Advocating for TikTok Ban

The US Congress is readying a votable bill to pave the way for a broader ban on TikTok to reduce Chinese control of US data. The US House Foreign Affairs Committee looks to implement legislation that ...

TikTok Crypto Influencers Could Suffer if US Passes TikTok Ban

A bill to ban TikTok has been advanced in the U.S. Congress that could affect crypto influencer revenue, as the firm’s parent company ByteDance eats into U.S. firms’ metaverse market share. A House pa...

TikTok Sets Default Daily Screen Time Limit For Under 18s

Topline TikTok will automatically set a one-hour daily screen time limit for users under the age of 18, the company announced on Wednesday, part of a string of new safeguarding features as concerns gr...

White House Orders Removal Of TikTok From Government-Issued Devices Within 30 Days

Topline The White House on Monday set a 30-day deadline for federal agencies to ensure the removal of TikTok from all government-issued devices, a move that comes months after U.S. Congress voted to b...

We’ve Hit Peak Pedro Pascal

Actor Pedro Pascal, currently the most popular man on the internet. (Photo by … [+] Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) FilmMagic Pedro Pascal has conquered The Mandalorian, The Last of Us, SNL, and...

TikTok ban, Supreme Court student loan hearing and Tesla Investor Day top week ahead

It will be a busy week ahead for investors with some Workday, Okta, Salesforce, and Zoom reported alongside computer companies and semiconductor manufacturers report earnings. The stock market is comi...

Australia’s Crypto King, TikTok, Botticelli

Welcome to the 107th Weekend Shift! What’s the deal? Over the weekend, we’ll update this post with some of the most interesting articles, podcasts, charts, and opinion pieces we’re too busy to write a...

Decentralized Music Project Altcoin Jumps by More Than 20% Amid New TikTok Integration

Decentralized music streaming service Audius (AUDIO) rolled out support for the popular video-sharing app TikTok, sparking a rally for the platform’s native crypto asset. According to Audius, new user...

A 26-year-old quit his job in advertising because he can make more as a TikTok creator—here’s how he did it

In This Economy? is a Fortune series exploring how people are getting by today, from buying a home to paying down debt to cashing out crypto. We want to hear from readers about how they are maneuverin...

Soldier’s TikTok Reveals Terrifying Close Quarters Battle

A Russian infantry man seen advancing on a trench from the helmet camera of a Ukrainian soldiers of … [+] the 92nd Infantry Brigade. Video capture from TikTok video. Even as the latest cinematic...

New Chinese-Owned Fast Fashion App Draws Comparisons (Good And Bad) To Shein

Topline You might have seen its Super Bowl ad or a Temu haul on TikTok as part of the aggressive marketing effort for the company that wants you to “shop like a billionaire,” resulting in millions of ...

A Mental Health Term Gets Used—And Abused—On TikTok

Topline “Intrusive thoughts” has become a TikTok catchphrase for people describing random—sometimes fun or quirky—impulses, but the actual mental health term has a meaning a lot more nuanced, and misu...

Behind The Humor, TikTok Star Chris Olsen Is Busting Mental Health Barriers

Chris Olsen, actor, digital creator and founder of Flight Fuel Max Montgomery If Chris Olsen—content creator and newly a purveyor of his own coffee brand Flight Fuel—were wondering about the impact of...

Billionaire Kuok Family-Backed Music App BandLab Taps Into AI For TikTok’s Breakout Stars

A scion of Malaysia’s richest family, Kuok Meng Ru transformed his love of classic rock and blues into a music empire. Looking ahead, his music production app BandLab aims to help everyone create song...

‘Solana (SOL) Killer’ Aptos (APT) Welcomes ‘Indian TikTok’ Chingari

Vladislav Sopov Chingari, world’s fastest-growing media application, scores partnership with overhyped L1 Aptos (APT) Contents Chingari, world’s fastest-growing social app, comes to Aptos ...

Aptos Labs backs web3 TikTok rival Chingari

Aptos Labs is attempting to make its mark in web3 social media with an equity investment in short video app Chingari. Chingari is an on-chain social media app that was founded in 2018. It has fi...

The U.S. Political Class’s Attack on TikTok Is Much More Dangerous Than TikTok

“Is there such a thing as a private company in China? I’m not sure there is.” Those are the words of GOP Rep. Mike Gallagher, who is heading up a new House committee that the Wall Street Journal repor...