By Kouthar Sambo Late on Saturday (18 January 2025) dozens of US TikTokers were up in arms after a message appeared on TikTok stating a law banning the app had been enacted, meaning "you can't use TikTok for now". This comes as a new US law banning TikTok has come into effect, hours after the popular app stopped working across the country. It is believed the video-sharing app was banned […]
By Kouthar Sambo Amid escalated concerns raised about minors using social media, Australia is planning to ban children from using social media. This comes as platforms such as Instagram and TikTok may be negatively impacting young people's physical and mental health - a phenomenon prevailing worldwide. Speaking on VOC's PM Drive show on Tuesday, an Executive Manager of Coach Tee and tech expert, Thabiso Naleli, said concerns are centered around […]
An Egyptian TikTok influencer has been arrested after she and another influencer were convicted of human trafficking and handed long jail terms. In the latest twist in a nearly year-long saga, a Cairo court on Sunday sentenced Haneen Hossam, 20, in absentia to 10 years in prison, and co-defendant Mawadah al-Adham, 23, who was present, to six years. The court also fined the two university students 200,000 Egyptian pounds each […]
Bangladesh has begun surveillance on people using the TikTok video-sharing platform after security forces busted a trafficking gang that lured girls into the sex trade in neighbouring India using the app, an official said. “A large number of TikTok users suspected of being involved in criminal activities are under close watch,” ANM Imran Khan, spokesman for the crime-fighting Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), said on Wednesday. The monitoring began after eleven […]
China's ByteDance says TikTok's global business will become its subsidiary, even as Oracle Corp and Walmart Inc said recently that they and United States-based investors would own the majority of the video app following a deal with US President Donald Trump's administration. Trump signed an executive order on August 14 giving ByteDance 90 days to sell TikTok, citing concerns that the personal data of as many as 100 million Americans […]
TikTok will exit the Hong Kong market within days, a spokesman told Reuters late on Monday, as other technology companies including Facebook Inc (FB.O) suspend processing government requests for user data in the region. The short form video app owned by China-based ByteDance has made the decision to exit the region following China’s establishment of a sweeping new national security law for the semi-autonomous city. “In light of recent events, […]
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