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After President Biden signed a law banning TikTok unless it divests from its China-based owner ByteDance, the viral video app sued to block it, arguing the act violates the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a law […]
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The law Congress passed this year to force the Chinese parent company of social media giant TikTok to either sell the service or face a U.S. ban is constitutional, a panel of federal appeals judges ruled Friday. The order from a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals preserves the bipartisan law President Joe Biden […]
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The law will make platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram liable for fines of up to 50 million Australian dollars ($33 million) for systemic failures to prevent children younger than 16 from holding accounts. File | Photo Credit: AP The Australian Senate passed a social media ban for young children on Thursday […]
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Chappell Roan calls fans ‘weird’ and ‘entitled’ for wanting photos Chappell Roan recently sparked controversy by calling some of her fans “weird” and “entitled” for expecting photos and interactions with her. unbranded – Entertainment Chappell Roan is going viral − again − for an incident with a photographer. The up-and-coming pop superstar clapped back at […]
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TikTok was aware that its design features are detrimental to its young users and that publicly touted tools aimed at limiting kids’ time on the site were largely ineffective, according to internal documents and communications exposed in lawsuit filed by the state of Kentucky. The details are among redacted portions of Kentucky’s lawsuit that contains […]
Continue ReadingMore than a dozen States and the District of Columbia filed lawsuits against TikTok on Tuesday (October 8, 2024), saying that the popular short-form video app is designed to be addictive to kids and harms their mental health. The lawsuits stem from a national investigation into TikTok, which was launched in March 2022 by a […]
Continue ReadingTikTok star Taylor Rousseau Grigg has died. She was 25. On Saturday, Grigg’s husband, Cameron Grigg, confirmed her death in an emotional Instagram post. “No one ever expects to have to deal with this kind of pain and heartache, especially at our age,” he wrote alongside a series of photos of the couple together. “This […]
Continue ReadingTikTok star Taylor Rousseau Grigg has died. She was 25 years old. Taylor’s husband, Cameron Grigg, shared the tragic news on Instagram Saturday. Cameron called Taylor’s passing “so sudden and unexpected” and shared a link to a GoFundMe page to help the family with finances. Taylor Rousseau Grigg. Instagram / @cameron.griggg Taylor Rousseau Grigg and […]
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