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A group of US investors in TikTok parent company ByteTance are reportedly discussing a plan to save the embattled app by buying it. The investors, including Silicon Valley big shot Sequoia Capital, want to eliminate any trace of Chinese control over TikTok in hopes of lessening scrutiny of the platform, including by US legislators, according …

Kourtney Kardashian has been “keeping up” with the latest social media trends through her friendship with 19-year-old TikTok star Addison Rae. Rae was first linked to the Kardashian family this spring when she posted a TikTok with Kardashian’s 10-year-old son, Mason Disick, and shared workout tips on Kourtney’s Poosh YouTube channel. Since then, the pair …

TikTok isn’t all trash. A Tennessee teen redefined multitasking after playing the piano while solving a Rubik’s Cube at the same time, as seen in this viral TikTok video with nearly 90,000 views and more than 23,000 likes. “This took me forever to time right,” said 18-year-old Jimmy Liu, a self-proclaimed 11-year piano veteran who’s …

President Trump’s re-election campaign is turning up the heat on TikTok. The campaign this week ran ads on Facebook claiming that the wildly popular, Chinese-owned social-media app is spying on its users, linking to a survey asking respondents whether it should be banned in the US. “TikTok is spying on you,” one of the ads …

TikTok has reportedly taken down some 29,000 coronavirus videos in Europe as it works to control bogus information about the pandemic. The affected videos — about 3,000 of which contained “medical misinformation” — violated the popular app’s rules that prohibit false information that could be harmful to people’s health, CNBC reported Friday. But TikTok honcho …

Facebook’s Instagram app will reportedly launch a new service in the coming weeks that copies the wildly popular features of the controversial TikTok app. Instagram Reels — which, like TikTok, allows users to make 15-second video clips set to music — will make its global debut soon as TikTok faces growing scrutiny over its Chinese …

Amazon employees who on Friday morning were told to delete TikTok from their phones received the directive by mistake, the company told The Post. The e-commerce juggernaut’s IT department had sent out an email to workers saying that “if you have TikTok on your device, you must remove it by 10-Jul to retain mobile access …

Soon to be Marquette University freshman Samantha Pfefferle has yet to even step foot on campus, yet she said she is already facing possible dismissal from the school. The threat to cancel Pfefferle’s admission came after she posted a video to her account on the popular social media site TikTok showing her support for President …

“It’s something we’re looking at,” said Pompeo. he United States is looking at the possibility of banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo talked about it in an interview with FOX News. “It’s something we’re looking at,” said Pompeo. It is the latest controversy involving China which includes increasing U.S.-China …

Three years since TikTok was launched, the video-sharing social network grown rapidly to accumulate more than two billion downloads, one of the most popular apps of the moment, beating even Instagram or YouTube in consumption time in the United States, United Kingdom or Spain, particularly among younger age segments. TikTok might be described as a …