A controversial Chinese social-media firm’s plans to establish its global headquarters in the UK have been thrown into doubt amid growing concern about Beijing’s influence in Britain. TikTok, a viral video app that is hugely popular among teenagers, had earmarked London as a possible location for its HQ as part of an attempt to distance … Read more
TikTok Australia has beefed up its campaign to stay open in Australia after federal MPs called for the app to be banned and claimed it was feeding user data to China. The popular video app, owned by Chinese company Bytedance, features an unending loop of 15-second videos and is used by more than 1.6 million … Read more
Who needs a fake ID! Teenagers dress up as senior citizens with face masks to buy alcohol from liquor stores in trend sweeping TikTok US teenagers are dressing up as senior citizens to buy alcohol from liquor stores The TikTok users wear face masks to add to the effect and cover their face Some went … Read more
Mortifying moment a teenage girl has to be freed by firefighters after getting stuck in a BABY SWING while filming a TikTok video Layani Maclean, 14, covered her face as the firefighters arrived to free her She was stuck in a children’s swing at a playground in Faringdon, Oxfordshire Firefighters unscrewed the swing’s chains before … Read more
US Democratic and Republican National Committees warn staffers against using TikTok over privacy concerns and ties to Chinese government The DNC and RNC have warned party members and staffers against using TikTok Both parties are citing privacy concerns as their reason TikTok is owned by the China-based ByteDance and has come under scrutiny for sending … Read more
A TikTok video revealing the ‘correct’ way to tie shoelaces has sparked heated debate among viewers who are arguing over which method is ‘most secure’. American entertainment account ‘attn‘ shared the clip which shows a woman demonstrating the ‘proper’ technique, crossing the left lace over the right, making a loop on the right side then … Read more
Britney Spears‘ former photographer Andrew Gallery has shared an intimate 2009 letter the star wrote about her conservatorship and marriage to Kevin Federline on his TikTok. Gallery took to the app to explain how he was ‘compelled’ to speak up by the #FreeBritney movement and fans continued worries about the Toxic singer’s well-being. In the lengthy … Read more
Dame Judi Dench channels her character in Cats as she dons an animal face mask for a trip to a wildlife centre with her partner David Mills By Jack Newman For Mailonline Published: 23:57 BST, 10 July 2020 | Updated: 08:35 BST, 11 July 2020 She recently revealed that TikTok has ‘saved her life’ amid … Read more
Roughly five hours after an internal email went out Friday to Amazon employees telling them to delete the popular video app TikTok from their phones, the online retailing giant appeared to backtrack, calling the ban a mistake. ‘This morning’s email to some of our employees was sent in error,’ Amazon emailed reporters just before 5pm … Read more
Leak reveals what kind of user information TikTok shares with police, including IP address history, phone model, Facebook ID and other related social media accounts Leaked police documents reveal TikTok turning over user information Shared information included phone number, phone model, history of IP addresses used, Facebook ID, and other related social media accounts Under … Read more