TikTok and Meta moderators join forces in push for better working conditions by mfiguiere

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What stupid TikTok videos can teach us about consumer trends by at7

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TikTok CEO, EU’s Vestager chatted about data harvesting, spying by mfiguiere

BRUSSELS, Jan 10 (Reuters) – TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew and the EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager discussed on Tuesday “aggressive” data harvesting and surveillance in the United States, the European Commission said.The short-video app, which is owned by Chinese technology conglomerate ByteDance, last month admitted that some of its employees improperly accessed TikTok

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TikTok car-fishing craze leads to closure of ancient Rufford Ford by bryanrasmussen

Deep in the English countryside is an ancient river crossing that has been used, in various forms, for at least 1,000 years. It featured in the Domesday Book, attracted Cistercian monks who built an abbey nearby, and more recently served as a handy shortcut for Nottinghamshire commuters. But Rufford ford has now been closed, after

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TikTok Wins a Vote in South Dakota by mfiguiere

A Wall Street Journal investigation found that TikTok only needs one important piece of information to figure out what you want: the amount of time you linger over a piece of content. Every second you hesitate or rewatch, the app is tracking you. Photo illustration: Laura Kammermann/The Wall St

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TikTok Ascendant: Where Democracy Lives (and Dies) in the Age of Social Media by bryanrasmussen

Let’s get our priorities right. Another American mass shooting. Yawn. A fresh Russian offensive in Ukraine. Yawn. The Heard vs Depp defamation case concludes with a $15 million payout to Johnny Depp. Wow. OMG. #justiceforjohnnydepp. The Wednesday evening homepage of BBC.com reflected these priorities. Above the digital fold of this old mainstream media publication, there…

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TikTok May Be More Dangerous Than It Looks by DogOfTheGaps

Ezra KleinMay 8, 2022Credit…Ali Asaei for The New York TimesAt the core of the frenzied interest in Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter is an intuition that I think is right: The major social media platforms are, in some hard-to-define way, essential to modern life. Call them town squares. Call them infrastructure. They exist in some…

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A woman behind Libs of TikTok, fueling right’s outrage machine by jelliclesfarm

Placeholder while article actions loadOn March 8, a Twitter account called Libs of TikTok posted a video of a woman teaching sex education to children in Kentucky, calling the woman in the video a “predator.” The next evening, the same clip was featured on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News program, prompting the host to ask, “When…

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Former TikTok moderators sue over emotional toll of ‘disturbing’ video by pseudolus

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