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A TikTok Ban Would Deal a Blow to Creators, Businesses and the American Economy

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Casey Evertsen drove down a suburban Utah street lined with trash bins, speaking into his phone’s...
Casey Evertsen drove down a suburban Utah street lined with trash bins, speaking into his phone’s camera as he gave a tour of the brightly-colored truck he uses for his garbage can-cleaning business. “If you like seeing dirty stuff get cleaned and watching how cool stuff works, follow along,” he said in the video sh...

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Millions of Teens Are Using a Homework App from TikTok's Chinese Parent Company

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Gauth is a mobile app, owned by ByteDance, that offers homework help to students.getty Gauth AI,...
Gauth is a mobile app, owned by ByteDance, that offers homework help to students.getty Gauth AI, an app that uses generative AI to help school-aged children do their homework, has surged in popularity in recent months, skyrocketing to #2 in the Education category in both Apple and Google’s app stores. Owned by ByteD...

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Influencers: Japan's secret weapon to promote niche tourism spots

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'If they ban TikTok in the US, they will destroy the American dream'

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In addition to the usual tribe of lobbyists and other merchants of influence that swarm around...
In addition to the usual tribe of lobbyists and other merchants of influence that swarm around Washington, last week saw a group of TikTokers protest outside the Capitol. Giovanna González — who has 200,000 followers on TikTok — was among the group. Last Tuesday, she met with members of Congress to try to get them t...

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Politicians Who Voted to Ban TikTok May Own as Much as $126M in Tech Stocks

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Financial disclosures show that members of Congress who voted for the so-called “TikTok ban” last week...
Financial disclosures show that members of Congress who voted for the so-called “TikTok ban” last week may own between $29 million and $126 million worth of stock in competing tech companies, according to data from Quiver Quantitative, a company that tracks congressional investments. Among the 352 members of the Hou...

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House Passes Privacy Bill Banning Data Brokers Selling Info to Russia, China

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The U.S. House passed a bill that would ban third-party data brokers from selling the user...
The U.S. House passed a bill that would ban third-party data brokers from selling the user data of Americans to geopolitical adversaries like China and Russia. And while it still needs to pass the Senate to become law, it’s a step in the right direction as recent headlines mostly focus on a potential ban on TikTok i...

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House passes bill that could lead to a TikTok ban; fight shifts to the Senate

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The House approved the legislation, dubbed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, that...
The House approved the legislation, dubbed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, that calls for China tech giant ByteDance to divest TikTok or the popular social video app will effectively be banned in the U.S.The bill now heads to the Senate where it faces an uncertain future ...

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TikTok told to break with China's Communist Party or lose access to US users

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TikTok is finally on the decline

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Chinese influencers pay fines to escape livestream contracts

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Calligraphy teacher Liu Fengyang thought he was kick-starting his career in entertainment when a livestreaming talent...
Calligraphy teacher Liu Fengyang thought he was kick-starting his career in entertainment when a livestreaming talent agency reached out to him in mid-2023. The agency promised the 58-year-old, who regularly posted videos of himself singing on a karaoke app, that it would raise his profile and earn him decent money ...

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Jon Stewart Returns to an Older, Smaller Audience

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TikTok Is Destroying Itself from the Inside Out

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At the beginning of 2023, TikTok was one of the weirdest and most delightful places on...
At the beginning of 2023, TikTok was one of the weirdest and most delightful places on the internet. An app with a reputation for memes and 30-second dances had become the front page of the internet, and it seemed TikTok was only getting better as the platform matured. A year later, TikTok’s growth finally appears t...

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iPhone Apps Harvest Data When They Send You Notifications, Researchers Find

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iPhone apps including Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, and X/Twitter are skirting Apple’s privacy rules to collect user...
iPhone apps including Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, and X/Twitter are skirting Apple’s privacy rules to collect user data through notifications, according to tests by security researchers at Mysk Inc., an app development company. Users sometimes close apps to stop them from collecting data in the background, but this ...

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The Founder of GeoCities on What Killed the 'Old Internet'

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Gizmodo is 20 years old! To celebrate the anniversary, we’re looking back at some of the...
Gizmodo is 20 years old! To celebrate the anniversary, we’re looking back at some of the most significant ways our lives have been thrown for a loop by our digital tools.In the early aughts, my wheezing dialup connection often operated as if it were perpetually out of breath. Thus, unlike my childhood friends, it wa...

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A TikTok Ban Would Deal a Blow to Creators, Businesses and the American Economy

Millions of Teens Are Using a Homework App from TikTok's Chinese Parent Company

Influencers: Japan's secret weapon to promote niche tourism spots

'If they ban TikTok in the US, they will destroy the American dream'

Politicians Who Voted to Ban TikTok May Own as Much as $126M in Tech Stocks

House Passes Privacy Bill Banning Data Brokers Selling Info to Russia, China

House passes bill that could lead to a TikTok ban; fight shifts to the Senate

TikTok told to break with China's Communist Party or lose access to US users

TikTok is finally on the decline

Chinese influencers pay fines to escape livestream contracts

Jon Stewart Returns to an Older, Smaller Audience

TikTok Is Destroying Itself from the Inside Out

iPhone Apps Harvest Data When They Send You Notifications, Researchers Find

The Founder of GeoCities on What Killed the 'Old Internet'