BEIJING, Dec 21 The content recommendation algorithm that powers the online short video platform TikTok has once...

BEIJING, Dec 20 (Reuters) - The content recommendation algorithm that powers the online short video platform TikTok has once again come under the spotlight after the app's Chinese owner ByteDance signed binding agreements to form a joint venture that will hand control of operations of TikTok's U.S

TikTok's owner ByteDance has signed a deal creating a U.S.-focused joint venture majority-owned by American and global investors, allowing the app to avoid a U.S

The new joint venture will prevent TikTok from shutting down in the U.S

TikTok has signed a deal to spin off its American business, according to reporting from Associated Press and others

Closing TikTok deal avoids 2026 ban, but app may be buggy, 100% MAGA.

The key to the app's success - its algorithm - is to be retrained on US data. Will that make US TikTok blander?

After years of regulatory uncertainty and political pressure, TikTok s sale of its U.S

The deals would end years of efforts by Washington to force ByteDance to sell its US operations.

Here is a closer look at the app, which said Thursday it had signed a deal with investors that would allow it to maintain US operations and avoid a ban threat over its Chinese ownership

Time to tune in for the 2025 TikTok Awards.

BEIJING, Dec 19 TikTok boasts over a billion users worldwide, including more than 170 million in the United Stat...

Saga penjualan perniagaan TikTok di Amerika Syarikat akan berakhir pada 22 Januari depan selepas Bytedance bersetuju menjual majoriti pegangan saham syarikat kepada beberapa firma Amerika Syarikat

Remember back in September when President Donald Trump signed an executive order that seemingly finalized some of the terms of a deal to spin off TikTok's US business? Three months later, that same deal is apparently one step closer to being official

WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, signed binding agreements with three major investors to sell just over 80% of the company's U.S

TikTok's U.S

TikTok was threatened with a U.S

It will be solely for "short-form video content," so Reels. TikTok launched an app on Fire TV in 2020 before rolling it out to other platforms

The original sense of the word, in the 1700s, was 'soft mud.' In the 1800s it came to mean 'food waste' (as in 'pig slop'), and then more generally, 'rubbish' or 'a product of little or no value,'" the dictionary distributors wrote. As the proliferation of AI slop expanded, some platforms like TikTok and Pinterest got wise and began offering users the choice to tone down the sheer amount of it in their feeds

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has announced that Internet messaging and social media platforms with at least 8 million users in Malaysia will be deemed registered as Applications Service Provider Class (ASP(C)) licensees starting next year

Sejak 1 Januri 2025, kerajaan telah melaksanakan proses perlesenan untuk perkhidmatan permesejan dan juga media sosial yang mempunyai 8 juta pengguna dan lebih. Ini sekaligus membuatkan perkhidmatan seperti Facebook, TikTok, dan lain-lain tertakluk untuk mendaftar bagi mendapatkan lesen operasi di Malaysia

An anonymous reader shared this report from the BBC: A billionaire investor keen on buying TikTok's US operations has told the BBC he has been left in limbo as the latest deadline for the app's sale looms

The Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) are warning the public about a new silent call scam, where fraudsters use artificial intelligence to mimic a victims voice and deceive their family members. The alert follows a viral TikTok video by Kuala Lumpur police explaining how the tactic works

A deal to sell TikTok has remained elusive, despite earlier claims that a deal was done.

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Let's talk about the top free iPhone apps first. The list was topped by ChatGPT, which was followed by Threads, Google, TikTok, and WhatsApp

TikTok hari ini memperkenalkan sebuah program baharu secara meluas, iaitu program TikTok Shop VIP

market, OpenAI's ChatGPT topped the ranks of free iPhone apps (not including games) with the most installs in 2025. The AI app was followed by Threads, Google, TikTok, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube, Google Maps, Gmail, and Google's Gemini

Yeah, not shocking, but with other studies linking AI to weaker learning and mental-health risks, its a worry Alongside TikTok and Instagram, teens have added ChatGPT to the mix

Spotify isn't the first company to offer users more direct control over how content is recommended to them. Meta has recently started experimenting with algorithm-tuning options in Threads and Instagram , and TikTok lets users completely reset their For You page to start fresh

For the first time, Instagram will start letting you control the topics its algorithm recommends, much as you now can on TikTok

The new Pew report also found that two-thirds of teens said they had used an AI chatbot

Riley Allen and others younger than 16 will be banned by law from holding accounts with Facebook, Instagram, Kick, Reddit, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, X, YouTube and Twitch from Dec 10

"I'm upset... because I am part of several communities on Snapchat and TikTok," she tells me

According to Pew, the survey was "weighted to be representative of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 who live with their parents by age, gender, race and ethnicity, household income, and other categories." According to Pew, 48 percent of teens use AI chatbots "several times a week" or more often, with 12 percent reporting their use at "several times a day" and 4 percent saying they use the tools "almost constantly." That's far fewer than the 21 percent of teens who report almost constant use of TikTok and the 17 percent who say the same about YouTube

When the service first launched, it was limited to "thousands" of music videos, but Spotify promised that the list would expand rapidly. In discussing the benefits to artists, the company said early this year that "users who discover a song and then watch the music video on Spotify are 34 percent more likely to stream the song again the following week." In a job listing spotted by The Verge , Spotify said it planned to build a "best-in-class video experience to rival the biggest players, like YouTube or TikTok." This article originally appeared on Engadget at ...4.html?src=rss

Discord recently revealed that around 70,000 users "may" have had their government IDs leaked due to an "incident" involving a third-party vendor the company contracts with to provide customer service related to age verification. Last year, another third-party identity provider that had worked with TikTok, Uber and other services exposed drivers' licenses

Here's how Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, X, and YouTube are responding to Australia's social media ban for children under 16.

In the two months since Sora arrived, deceptive videos have surged on TikTok, X, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, according to experts who track them

The influencer economy that Goldman Sachs projects will reach nearly half a trillion dollars by 2027 depends on a less-examined population: the influenced, millions of people who find themselves accumulating debt and clutter after years of exposure to what amounts to a 24/7 digital infomercial. Antoinette Hocbo, a former marketing professional who knows the tricks brands use to chip away at willpower, bought a $199 Pilates program, an iPad, and an arsenal of makeup products after TikTok's algorithm served her a stream of aspirational content

TikTok just announced a couple of updates that that should make the app a bit more social

The country is trying to wean children under 16 off the likes of TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube and Instagram with a new law

"Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway," reads the headline at Futurism: As Daily Dot reports, a New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. "She just broke my Meta glasses," said the TikTok user, who goes by eth8n, in a video that has since garnered millions of views

With a bigger sensor and larger aperture than the competition, DJIs Action 6 is now the best action cam on the market for night shooting, delivering clean, sharp video with better stabilization than rivals, he said . Its also ideal for users who output to both YouTube and TikTok

TikTok, by contrast, satisfied DSA concerns over its ad repository transparency The European Union has issued its first-ever Digital Services Act fine, slapping Elon Musk's X with a 120 million penalty for breaching the bloc's rules on ad transparency, data access for researchers, and its revamped blue-checkmark system

BRUSSELS, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's social media company X was fined 120 million euros ($140 million) by EU tech regulators on Friday for breaching online content rules, the first sanction under landmark legislation that once again drew criticism from the U.S

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) says child protection remains central to its mandate after identifying 957 cases involving child-related harmful content between 1 January 2024 and 30 November this year. According to the commission, platforms removed 899 of these cases (a 94% compliance rate) with social media platforms including Tumblr, TikTok and Facebook […] The post MCMC: 957 Cases Of Harmful Child-Related Content On Social Media Flagged This Year appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

Ireland's media regulator, Coimisin na Men, has announced investigations into both TikTok and LinkedIn for possible violations of the European Union's Digital Services Act, Reuters reports

But there's a big change coming if you're under 16, reports CNN: From December 10, sites that meet the Australian government's definition of an "age-restricted social media platform" will need to show that they're doing enough to eject or block children under 16 or face fines of up to 49.5 million Australian dollars ($32 million). The list includes Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, Kick, Reddit, Threads, TikTok, Twitch, X, and YouTube..

Last year Amazon produced a similar campaign starring Adam Driver ("Kylo Ren" from the final trilogy of Star Wars sequels). "The humor comes from the juxtaposition between Cumberbatch's gravitas and the text itself," reports Adweek, adding that the reviews were curated "using internal AI tools, to find the most oddly specific reviews on the platform." Amazon will stream Cumberbatch's bizarre ads on major platforms including TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube, Lyft, Uber, Disney/Hulu, Paramount, and Roku, and on several NFL football games

An EDM song by the British group Haven ran into trouble in October after it shared clips of upcoming song "I Run" on TikTok

Hidden, a TikTok-like platform operated by sex workers, is launching as OnlyFans is implementing background checks for performers and expanding beyond adult content.

Treasury haul beats early forecasts, yet captures only a fraction of the revenue generated in Britain The UK government collected just 800 million in Digital Services Tax (DST) from companies such as Amazon, Google, Meta, eBay, and TikTok in the most recent tax year.

According toThe Information, Chinese authorities have blocked TikTok owner ByteDance from using Nvidia chips in their new data centres

Creating the new by swallowing and regurgitating the old is also the signature move of generative A.I., which may be why that medium is so effective at creating works of burnished nostalgia. On Instagram and TikTok, accounts with names like "Maximal Nostalgia" serve up honeyed, uncanny images and videos that testify to how much better life was in a 1980s and 1990s that never existed

A delivery driver posted a TikTok alleging she had been sexually assaulted by a customer

Chinese automakers may not be able to sell their electric vehicles in the United States due to steep tariffs and software restrictions, but they have found an alternative path to American eyeballs through a coordinated campaign targeting car influencers on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram

This change is a response to user feedback about "AI slop" or low-quality AI content flooding feeds, and it contrasts with platforms like Meta, which have explored dedicated AI-only feeds

On Monday, a federal judge granted the company a temporary restraining order against OpenAI, CNBC reports . Until December 22, the startup is not allowed to use the word cameo in relation to any features inside of Sora, its TikTok-like app for creating AI-generated videos

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Social media companies will have to ensure compliance or face a fine of up to $49.5 million AUD ($32 million USD). Platforms impacted by the ban include X, Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat, Reddit, YouTube and Twitch

Pew Research surveyed 5,022 Americans this year (between February 5 and June 18), asking them "do you ever use" YouTube, Facebook, and nine of the other top social media platforms. The results? YouTube 84% Facebook 71% Instagram 50% TikTok 37% WhatsApp 32% Reddit 26% Snapchat 25% X.com (formerly Twitter) 21% Threads 8% Bluesky 4% Truth Social 3% An announcement from Pew Research adds some trends and demographics: The Center has long tracked use of many of these platforms

Nearly as frequently, 48 percent of adults use YouTube daily, including 33 percent of that demographic watching videos on the platform several times a day. When looking at frequency through the lens of age gaps, the starkest difference is found with 47 percent of adults between 18 and 29 using TikTok at least once a day, while only five percent of those aged 65 or older use the ByteDance-owned app every day

The breadth and reach of Australia's pioneering social media ban grows as livestream platform Twitch has now been added to the list of banned platforms for users under 16 years of age. The nationwide ban is the first of its kind and encompasses Facebook, X, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube and recently Reddit

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