In the 2024 presidential election, TikTok, a Chinese-owned app, is poised to play a crucial role in engaging voters, especially younger demographics. Both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have embraced the platform despite previous calls for its ban, underscoring its significance in modern political campaigning. The most
According to a recently published report in Politico, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin and other officials blame the deadly New Caledonia uprising on TikTok, Russia, and Azerbaijan. Further disturbing photos from the ongoing rioting and turmoil in the French Pacific island of New Caledonia have surfaced, and more French troops—including
According to USA Today, migrant-smuggling “influencers” are using TikTok to advertise their services, leveraging popular hashtags such as “sueño americano” (“American dream”). Migrant smugglers — known as “coyotes” — are advertising their illegal transportation services into the US through the southern border via the Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok, according
Forbes has learned that the financial information and social security numbers of TikTok creators have been stored in China without their knowledge. Over the past several years, thousands of TikTok creators and businesses around the world have given the company sensitive financial information—including their social security numbers and tax IDs—so that
Due to viral videos posted on TikTok and other social media platforms, teaching people how to start cars with USB cables and exploit a security vulnerability in some models, several Kia and Hyundai cars were stolen. Jonnifer Neal’s Kia was stolen twice in one day — first from in front
TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, has launched a new social media site called Lemon8, amid federal and state efforts to ban or restrict TikTok in the country over national security concerns. In the days after TikTok’s CEO was grilled by Congress for the first time, many TikTok users began posting about an
The ban of TikTok from government devices is meant to guard against the possibility that Chinese Communist Party members or officials could gain access to the personal data of U.S. officials.
Within the past few months, TikTok hired SKDK, a firm connected to Biden, to provide ‘communications support’ as it fights a push to ban the app. This move has given the company a line to the White House.
Subscribers of e-girls claim that the US military is utilizing YouTube and TikTok to enhance its image, in an effort to address the shortage of volunteers that has persisted for years.