All the headlines from our Tiktok Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 17 2023 // Britain said on Thursday it would ban TikTok on government phones with immediate effect, a move that follows other Western countries in barring the Chinese-owned video app over security concerns.TikTok has come under...
Mar 15 2023 // Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre is reviewing whether Chinese-owned video app TikTok should be banned from government phones, security minister Tom Tugendhat said on Tuesday.TikTok has come under increasing...
Mar 3 2023 // Canada will bar civil servants from using TikTok Inc. on government-issued mobile devices due to security concerns around data collection.The social media app, which is owned by China’s ByteDance Ltd., will be...
Feb 23 2023 // The European Union’s two biggest policy-making institutions have banned TikTok from staff phones for cybersecurity reasons, marking growing concerns about the Chinese short video-sharing app and its users’...
Nov 17 2022 // The U.S. operations of Chinese-owned TikTok raise national security concerns, FBI Director Chris Wray said on Tuesday, flagging the risk that the Chinese government could harness the video-sharing app to influence users or...
Oct 28 2022 // Federal communications law shields the video-sharing site TikTok Inc. from responsibility for the death of a 10 year-old girl who died while attempting a challenge on TikTok that encourages viewers to strangle themselves...
Oct 28 2022 // A car crash in Buffalo, N.Y. that left four teenagers dead may have been linked to a TikTok challenge, a police commissioner said.A total of six teenagers were in a speeding Kia that crashed about 6:30 a.m. Monday, Buffalo...
Jul 21 2022 // TikTok faces a claim that its algorithm steers more violent videos to minority subscribers than to White users in a lawsuit blaming the platform for the death of a 14-year-old African-American girl.The complaint, which...
May 13 2022 // TikTok Inc. was blamed in a lawsuit for the death of a 10-year-old girl who allegedly participated in an online challenge in which people choke themselves until they black out.Nylah Anderson, an intelligent child who could...
Mar 3 2022 // ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok is being targeted by a group of states seeking to determine whether the social media platform is being improperly marketed to children.The states are investigating how TikTok promotes itself...
Apr 29 2021 // Oregon Health and Science University said it will pay $585,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed by a social worker who accused a former anesthesiology resident of sexually assaulting her and the school of failing to...
Apr 21 2021 // LONDON – TikTok, the wildly popular video app, and its Chinese parent ByteDance could face a damages claim worth billions of pounds (dollars) in London’s High Court over allegations they illegally harvested the...
Jan 11 2021 // One Lake Charles, La., woman credits the power of social media in getting one step closer to having her hurricane-damaged home repaired after weeks of roadblocks with her insurance claim.Tara Parks recently posted several...