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A new Pew Research Center study has found a significant decline in support for the TikTok ban among Americans. The trend is observed regardless of political views, with the most notable changes occurring among Republican Party supporters. This creates a new twist in the discussion about the future of the popular platform. Public Opinion and […]
TikTok has introduced a new app called Whee, an Instagram analog, which is currently being tested and is only available on Android devices. Visually, Whee resembles the well-known Instagram social network by Meta. However, according to the developers, the new app is designed to share photos only with your closest friends. Whee has a standard […]
A proposal to ban TikTok in Ukraine has been registered on the Cabinet of Ministers’ Electronic Petitions website. Among the main reasons for the need to block the social network are China’s control of the social network, which helps Russia in its war with Ukraine, and the ease of spreading disinformation on it. The petition […]
TikTok will start using technology that will help label images and videos created by artificial intelligence and uploaded to the video sharing service, Reuters reports. TikTok said it will accept a digital watermark that indicates how images were created and edited. The Content Credential technology was developed by Adobe, is open for use by other […]
The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, does not rule out the possibility of a ban on TikTok in the European Union. She said this during a debate in Maastricht (Netherlands), which was attended by leading party candidates for the 2024 elections, Politico reports. “It’s not out of the question,” she said […]
US President Joe Biden has officially authorized a bill that paves the way for a ban on the social network TikTok in the US if its Chinese owner ByteDance does not sell its stake to a Western investor. According to the document, the agreement has 270 days with a deadline of January 19, 2025, but […]
The decision of the US parliament is aimed at pushing ByteDance to abandon TikTok. The US Congress has approved a decision to ban the Chinese social network TikTok, which will now be unavailable for download in 270 days unless the Chinese owner sells the platform. As reported by the Financial Times, on Tuesday, 79 members […]
The head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Freedom of Speech, Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, emphasized that Ukraine may ban TikTok if the social network continues to fail to respond to cases of Russian propaganda. TikTok collects too much data According to the app’s Privacy Policy, TikTok collects email addresses, search and browsing histories, the content of […]
TikTok is preparing to launch a new photo platform called TikTok Notes, which is expected to become a direct competitor to Instagram. This was reported by TechCrunch. Users began receiving notifications that Notes was about to be released and that their posts with photos would be published there immediately if they agreed to do so. […]
LinkedIn, a popular social network for professionals, is introducing a new short video feed that resembles the TikTok format. What is known LinkedIn is joining the ranks of popular platforms that are launching their own short video channels in response to the growing popularity of TikTok. The move makes LinkedIn part of a trend that […]