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European Union regulators are investigating whether TikTok breached the bloc’s digital rulebook by failing to deal with risks to Romania’s presidential election.

A federal appeals court has left in place a mid-January deadline in a federal law requiring TikTok to be sold or face a ban in the United States.

Nearly half of American teenagers say they are online “constantly,” despite concerns about the effects of social media and smartphones on their mental health.

With the clock ticking, TikTok’s future in the United States hangs in the balance. U.S. lawmakers are moving closer to implementing a nationwide ban on the popular social media app, which could take effect as early as next month.

TikTok has challenged a Canadian government order to shut down the Chinese video-sharing app’s business operations in the country that was imposed over national security concerns.

TikTok on Monday asked a federal appeals court to bar the Biden administration from enforcing a law that could lead to a ban on the popular platform until the Supreme Court reviews the case.

TikTok’s future in the U.S. appeared uncertain on Friday after a federal appeals court rejected a legal challenge the company brought against a law that requires it to cut ties with its China-based parent company or be banned by mid-January.

A federal appeals court panel on Friday unanimously upheld a law that could lead to a ban on TikTok as soon as next month, handing a resounding defeat to the popular social media platform as it fights for its survival in the U.S. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the law - which requires TikTok to break ties with its China-based parent company ByteDance or be banned by mid-January — is constitutional, rebuffing TikTok’s challenge that the statute ran...

The European Union has sent TikTok an urgent request for more information about Romanian intelligence files suggesting that Moscow coordinated influencers on its platform to promote an election candidate who became the surprise front-runner in the nation’s presidential election.

TikTok took down several networks allegedly trying to meddle in Romania’s elections, executives said Tuesday as they defended the company’s election integrity measures to European Union lawmakers.

A top Romanian court has asked the official electoral authority to recount and verify all of the ballots cast in the first round of the presidential election.

A report released Monday by Pew Research Center says about one in five Americans regularly get their news from so-called news influencers on social media.

After a tumultuous year filled with anxiety and a legal fight about its future in the U.S., TikTok may have just been thrown a lifeline by the man who was once its biggest foe.

The Canadian government is ordering the dissolution of TikTok’s Canadian business after a national security review of the Chinese company behind the social media app but said it won’t block access.

Oct. 29 is National Cat Day. The day aims to bring awareness to the number of cats that need to be rescued each year, according to National Today.

Just weeks before the U.S. presidential election, TikTok still approved advertisements that contained election disinformation even though it has a ban on political ads.

Google, Meta and TikTok have removed social media accounts belonging to an industrial plant in Russia’s Tatarstan region aimed at recruiting young foreign women to make drones for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

TikTok has been 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.

42 state attorneys general demand a Surgeon General warning label for social media apps.

From cute dogs and new moves to hot fashion and more, TikTok is captivating teens in the U.S. While much of the content is all about fun, some of it can be dangerous or even deadly.

“Very demure, very mindful” has become the latest vocabulary defining the internet’s summer.

Across this week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago, more than 200 online influencers, streamers and other social media personalities have been capturing and livestreaming their impressions of what’s happening.

Nepal’s new government has lifted restrictions on the video-sharing app TikTok, nine months after imposing a ban because it was disrupting “social harmony."

Alicia Silverstone worried fans this week when she posted a TikTok clip of herself nibbling a poisonous berry she found while walking on a sidewalk.

Officials from the European Union’s executive commission said Monday that TikTok has agreed to end a rewards feature that raised concerns about encouraging excessive screen time and its effects on children.

Spend some time on TikTok and you'll see loads of people talking about digestive troubles like irritable bowel syndrome.

The Justice Department sued TikTok on Friday, accusing the company of violating children’s online privacy law and running afoul of a settlement it had reached with another federal agency.

In a fresh broadside against one of the world’s most popular technology companies, the Justice Department has accused TikTok of harnessing the capability to gather bulk information on users based on views on divisive social issues like gun control, abortion and religion.

TikTok owner ByteDance can’t avoid the bloc’s crackdown on digital giants, a European Union court says.

The owner and founder of the website Barstool Sports lost control of a boat off Nantucket before being rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard.

TikTok sensation Keith Lee came down to Jacksonville for the annual Duval Day community event.

Anyone who shops or uses the internet probably has encountered a TikTok trend, whether they know it or not.

TikTok and its bite-sized videos arrived in the United States as a global version of the Chinese app Douyin.

A dozen social and racial justice groups said Thursday that the federal law requiring TikTok’s parent company to sell the platform, or face a ban, would disrupt a vehicle that many minority communities use to form connections online and advocate for causes.

Ira Galtman is part of a small community of corporate archivists.

TikTok on Thursday disclosed a letter the company sent to the government in April accusing the federal agency that once held the platform’s future in its hands of “political demagoguery.”.

The Federal Trade Commission has referred a complaint against TikTok and its Beijing-based parent company to the Department of Justice.

Duval County Public Schools is holding a workshop Tuesday morning to discuss creating a mental health plan and to review the student code of conduct.

TikTok says it has taken steps to stop a cyberattack targeting high-profile accounts, including one belonging to CNN.

Spain’s government has proposed a law to protect children from online threats that includes virtual restraining orders for felons and a higher age for opening social media accounts.

TikTok said Thursday its putting in place new rules to limit the reach of state-affiliated media accounts.

Billionaire businessman and real estate mogul Frank McCourt says he’s putting together a consortium to purchase TikTok’s U.S. business.

Eight TikTok content creators have sued the U.S. over the new federal law that would could ban the social media platform nationwide.

TikTok says it’s going to start automatically labeling content that’s made by artificial intelligence when it’s uploaded from certain platforms.

TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, are suing the U.S. government over a law that would ban the popular video-sharing app unless it’s sold to an approved buyer.

The owner of a St. Augustine hotel, The Local, says her business will suffer if there is a TikTok ban.

A study by the nonprofit Brookings Institution says Russian state-affiliated accounts have boosted their use of TikTok and are getting more engagement on the short-form video platform ahead of the U.S. presidential election.

Artists from Universal Music Group, which include Drake, Adele, Bad Bunny and Billie Eilish, will be returning to TikTok as the two parties have struck a new licensing agreement following an approximately three-month long dispute.

Some Jacksonville small businesses said they could be impacted financially if TikTok is banned.

If it feels like TikTok has been around forever, that’s probably because it has, at least if you’re measuring via internet time.

While a bill to ban TikTok if it doesn't change owners has received President Joe Biden's signature, it could still be years before the popular video-sharing app is actually blocked from U.S. app stores — if it is blocked at all.

TikTok is banned in a handful of countries and not allowed on government-issued devices in a number of others.

TikTok is gearing up for a legal fight against a U.S. law that would force the social media platform to break ties with its China-based parent company or face a ban.

Legislation forcing TikTok’s parent company to sell the video-sharing platform or face a ban in the U.S. has received President Joe Biden’s official signoff.

President Joe Biden’s signing of legislation that could ban TikTok in the U.S. runs counter to his campaign’s embrace of the platform and outreach to influencers.

TikTok is halting a feature on its new app rewarding users in Europe for watching videos, after facing pressure from regulators worried about its addictive features.

The hugely popular Chinese app TikTok may be forced out of the U.S., where a measure to outlaw the video-sharing app has won congressional approval and is on its way to President Biden for his signature.

After years of attempts to ban the Chinese-owned app, including by former President Donald Trump, a measure to outlaw the popular video-sharing app has won congressional approval and is on its way to President Biden for his signature.

The European Union is demanding TikTok provide more information about a new app that pays users to watch videos and warned that it could order the video sharing platform to suspend addictive features that pose a risk to kids.

There have been mixed reactions from community members about the House voting to ban TikTok if its China-based owners don’t sell within a year.

The House has passed legislation that would ban TikTok in the United States if the popular social media platform’s China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake within a year.

European Union regulators are seeking details from TikTok on a new app from the video sharing platform that pays users to watch videos.

Georgia could join other states in requiring children younger than 16 to have their parents’ explicit permission to create social media accounts.

A person familiar with the matter says the Federal Trade Commission is investigating TikTok over its data and security practices.

Children under 14 years old will be banned from having social media accounts in an effort politicians said would save children’s lives. That’s according to the latest revamped bill that Gov. Ron DeSantis signed on Monday.

European Union regulators are ratcheting up scrutiny of big tech companies including Google, Facebook and TikTok by looking into how they’re dealing with risks from generative artificial intelligence, such as the viral spread of deepfakes.

Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he’s going to put together an investor group to buy TikTok after the House passed a bill that would ban the popular video app in the U.S. if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake.

Since its inception, TikTok has been intended only for non-Chinese markets, unavailable in mainland China.

The House has passed a bill that would ban TikTok in the U.S. if its China-based owner doesn’t sell.

Lawmakers are facing their latest lobbyists — online influencers from TikTok.

U.S. lawmakers are threatening to ban TikTok but also say they are giving its Chinese parent company a chance to keep it running.

House Republicans are moving ahead with a bill that would require Chinese company ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban in the United States even as former President Donald Trump is voicing opposition to the effort.

President Joe Biden has endorsed legislation that could lead to the popular video-sharing app TikTok being banned in the United States, a move that comes amid growing concern in Washington about keeping Americans' private data out of China’s hands.

The House has approved legislation that would ban TikTok if its Beijing-based parent company doesn’t divest from the popular social media platform, escalating the fight over the hot-button issue.

A bill that could lead to the popular video-sharing app TikTok being unavailable in the United States is quickly gaining traction in the House.

The European Union is looking into whether TikTok has broken the bloc’s strict new digital rules for cleaning up social media and keeping internet users safe.

President Joe Biden’s campaign is embracing TikTok to court younger voters ahead of the presidential elections, but U.S. adults have mixed views about whether the video-sharing app should even operate in the country.

McDonald’s CEO promised more affordable menu items after backlash on social media caught his attention amid the outrage over inflation.

Using XRF technology, Lead Safe Mama discovered that the exposed sealing dot on the bottomof the Stanley Tumblers was positive for a very high level of lead.

TikTok may look (or sound) a little different when you scroll through the app going forward.

Sexual predators. Addictive features. Self-harm and eating disorders. Unrealistic beauty standards. Bullying. These are just some of the issues young people are dealing with on social media — and children’s advocates and lawmakers say companies are not doing enough to protect them.

Universal Music Group, which represents artists including Taylor Swift, Drake, Adele, Bad Bunny and Billie Eilish, says that it will no longer allow its music on TikTok now that a licensing deal between the two parties has expired.

TikTok is laying off dozens of workers in its advertising and sales unit, becoming the latest tech company to trim jobs in the new year.

Eating disorders impact approximately 30 million Americans, and that doesn’t take into account the ones who struggle but don’t meet the clinical criteria for the disorder.

Iowa has become the latest state to sue TikTok over claims that the social media company deceives consumers over the amount of “inappropriate content” that children have access to via the platform.

A federal judge has temporarily halted enforcement of an Ohio law that would require children under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps.

TikTok has restricted one tool researchers use to analyze popular videos.

A trade group representing TikTok, Snapchat, Meta and other major tech companies has sued Ohio over a pending law that requires children to get parental consent to use social media apps.

After reports showed the 17-year-old Iowa school shooter made several social media posts around the time of the shooting, some people are questioning the role of social media in preventing tragedies like this.

A study from Harvard says social media companies collectively made over $11 billion in U.S. advertising revenue from minors last year.

A trade group that represents TikTok and other major tech companies has sued Utah over its first-in-the-nation laws requiring children to get parental consent to use social media apps.

Teen usage of social media hasn’t dropped much, despite rising concerns about its effects on the mental health of adolescents.

A federal judge in Texas has upheld the state’s TikTok ban on official devices and networks.

News4JAX is fact-checking a statement made by presidential candidate Nikki Haley through the Trust Index regarding the rise in antisemitism and its connection to social media.

An Indiana county judge has dismissed a state lawsuit filed against TikTok that had accused the app of deceiving its users about the level of inappropriate content for children on its platform and the security of consumers’ personal information.

TikTok and Meta are filing legal challenges against new European Union rules designed to counter the dominance of digital giants and make online competition fairer by giving consumers more choice.

Nepal’s government has decided to ban the popular social media app TikTok, saying it was disrupting “social harmony” in the country.

Hyundai says it will set up “mobile clinics” at five U.S. locations to provide anti-theft software upgrades for vehicles now regularly targeted by thieves using a technique popularized on TikTok and other social platforms.

The European Union has demanded Meta and TikTok detail their efforts to curb illegal content and disinformation during the Israel-Hamas war.