After being lured to Pakistan, Hira Anwar was fatally shot by her father and an uncle over online posts that her parents believed were immodest, the police said.
The Black co-host of the pictured event is calling it "insane" that he was removed from the picture of the event in Washington, D.C. on the eve of Trump's inauguration.
For nearly an hour, the sides went back and forth, with the lawyers for the social media companies arguing that they are shielded from liability by multiple precedents, including a federal law and free speech.
On January 17, mourners gathered for a mock funeral in New York City in response to the news that TikTok may be "forced" to shut down on January 19. The event took place in Washington Square Park, where a video recorded by Ava Kramer captured an inflatable doll wearing TikTok-branded clothing lying inside a casket.
Like tens of thousands of content creators who make their living through social media, local creators are in jeopardy of losing their most successful platform if the U.S. government follows through on its ban of the app.
After briefly going dark in the U.S., TikTok is back online following an executive order. That’s not good for young users, says NYU psychologist Jonathan Haidt.
The federal law banning TikTok has revealed a major schism among American tech companies: Some are willing to flout the law — and some, including Apple and Google, are not.
A new study shows which states are the most TikTok-obsessed amid uncertainty about the social media platform’s future in the U.S.
"I love TikTok so much that I cannot imagine a life without it. And yet I desperately need a life without it."
Timing really is everything. A week on from TikTok’s short-lived ban over fears of Chinese harvesting U.S. data, despite consistent denials from the platform and its parent that it’s doing anything of the sort, here comes another app that admits to doing exactly that. And if you still think TikTok is bad — this is so much worse.
Microsoft attempted to make a bid on TikTok during Trump’s first time in the White House when he tried to ban the app.
Unless TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, sells the app into new ownership, TikTok will be removed from Apple and Google app stores on Sunday, Jan. 19, reports CNN. The app will still be accessible on phones that have it previously downloaded, but it will not be able to update.