After being lured to Pakistan, Hira Anwar was fatally shot by her father and an uncle over online posts that her parents believed were immodest, the police said.
The Black co-host of the pictured event is calling it "insane" that he was removed from the picture of the event in Washington, D.C. on the eve of Trump's inauguration.
U.S. TikTok users who once saw the app as a haven for free speech say they see signs of censorship after the platform, which is owned by China's ByteDance, was revived by an executive order from President Donald Trump.
This is war!” she said just one day after the viral Old Friends Photobooth moved next to her longtime Lower East Side home, the suit alleges.
Like tens of thousands of content creators who make their living through social media, local creators are in jeopardy of losing their most successful platform if the U.S. government follows through on its ban of the app.
After briefly going dark in the U.S., TikTok is back online following an executive order. That’s not good for young users, says NYU psychologist Jonathan Haidt.
Phones with TikTok already downloaded are being listed for eye-watering sums as the social media platform remains absent from app stores.
A new study shows which states are the most TikTok-obsessed amid uncertainty about the social media platform’s future in the U.S.
However, according to a breaking story in The New York Times, the Court's ruling was two-fold: "preventing China from covertly manipulating content on the platform, and preventing China from collecting vast amounts of data about the 170 million Americans who use TikTok.
People are listing phones preloaded with TikTok for tens of thousands of dollars on eBay, Facebook marketplace and other online storefronts.
Unless TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, sells the app into new ownership, TikTok will be removed from Apple and Google app stores on Sunday, Jan. 19, reports CNN. The app will still be accessible on phones that have it previously downloaded, but it will not be able to update.
On January 17, mourners gathered for a mock funeral in New York City in response to the news that TikTok may be "forced" to shut down on January 19. The event took place in Washington Square Park, where a video recorded by Ava Kramer captured an inflatable doll wearing TikTok-branded clothing lying inside a casket.