Venezuela’s highest court on Monday fined TikTok $10 million in connection with viral challenges that authorities say left three adolescents dead from intoxication by chemical substances.
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US President-elect Donald Trump filed a brief Friday urging the Supreme Court to pause a law that would ban TikTok the day before his January 20 inauguration if it is not sold by its Chinese owner ByteDance.
TikTok’s breakneck rise from a niche video-sharing app to a global social media behemoth has drawn intense scrutiny, particularly over its links to China.
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said Saturday the government would shut down social network TikTok for at least a year from 2025.
TikTok has announced the launch of the second phase of its #SaferTogether digital safety and awareness program in collaboration with the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and Data Science Nigeria (DSN).
TikTok said it removed over 2.1 million videos in Nigeria in the second quarter of 2024 for violating its community guidelines.
TikTok, the popular social media platform owned by China’s ByteDance, has announced the layoff of hundreds of employees from its global workforce, including a significant number in Malaysia.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has referred a complaint against the popular video-sharing app TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance to the Department of Justice.
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) says there is need for safety and content moderation in the digital space in line with global practices.
A civil society organisation (CSO) has threatened to drag the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to court if it fails to ban Netflix, TikTok, and others over the alleged broadcast of offensive same-sex content on Nigeria’s airwaves.