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TikTok Streamers Are Staging ‘Israel vs. Palestine’ Live Matches to Cash In on Virtual Gifts
Live matches, also known as player knockout or PK battles, have been a feature on TikTok since at least 2021,…
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How to Be Extremely Online and Influence People
Lauren: Our guest this week is Taylor Lorenz. Taylor is a prominent technology journalist at The Washington Post, and she’s…
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TikTok Shop Has a Snail Slime Problem
To try to ensure the products on the shop are of decent quality, TikTok uses technical and human moderation to…
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TikTok Is Spending $1.3 Billion to Dodge Bans in Europe
Yet the threat of a ban constantly looms over the app, in part because of those longstanding Chinese connections. Although…
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YouTube Music Adds a TikTok-Like Video Feed to Attract Gen Z
YouTube Music just announced Samples, a new in-app feature where users can scroll through short music video clips from their…
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A Leaked Memo Shows TikTok Knows It Has a Labor Problem
Last month, a court in Kenya issued a landmark ruling against Meta, owner of Facebook and Instagram. The US tech…
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TikTok Keeps Removing Abortion Pill Content
“There was no understanding that [the law] would even be enforced in Texas at the time because it was appealed…
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Sarah Stusek’s ‘Three Rivers’ Dropped After TikTok Backlash
Angry readers flooded TikTok and the GoodReads page of an author’s forthcoming book with one-star reviews after the author attacked…
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Montana’s Looming TikTok Ban Is a Dangerous Tipping Point
Montana lawmakers voted 54-43 today to ban TikTok from operating in the state and forbid app stores from offering it…
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TikTok and Amazon Bet on China’s Ecommerce Model. It’s a Dud
The pandemic sent the livestream sales industry into overdrive. The Chinese government’s strict “zero Covid” policies hit the brick-and-mortar retail…
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