TikToker Arrested for Disclosing Location of Ukrainian Military Units Online Resulting in Deadly Attack
A Ukrainian TikToker was arrested after posting a video depicting the location of a Ukrainian military unit parked near the Retroville shopping mall in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv that the Russian military then attacked...
Cannabis Videos Are Popular Among Teens On TikTok
A new study from researchers at the University of Queensland (UA) has found that teenagers who use TikTok are being exposed to videos that portray cannabis use as entertaining and funny rather than risky. The...
TikTok Videos Are Prompting Teenagers to Diagnose Themselves With Severe Mental Disorders
A rash of videos on the popular short-form video sharing app TikTok, posted by teens and adults stating they have been diagnosed with severe mental disorders and encouraging viewers to “self-evaluate” for the diseases, are...
TikTok Challenge: Homemade Bomb Trend Leads to Swedish Youth Damaging Eyes
A dangerous trend has emerged on TikTok that involves mixing chemicals to create homemade bombs. Recently, a Swedish youth who participated in this trend ended up damaging his eyesight. The youth was a student of...
TikTok Empoyees: China Controls Company’s US Operations
In June this year, U.S. President, Joe Biden, signed an executive order revoking former President Donald Trump’s order that sought to ban TikTok. Trump’s order was based on the consideration that TikTok posed a threat...
Afghan TikTok Comedian Executed by Taliban Militants for Mocking Them
Footage of the abduction of Afghan TikTok comedian Nazar Mohammad, better known as Khasha Zwan, has surfaced, showing the man being held prisoner in the city of Kandahar. Death of a comedian On July 31st,...
Beijing Eyeing Take Over of Ride Sharing App, Didi; Encourages State-owned Companies to Invest
The Chinese government is encouraging government-run firms to invest in the Chinese ride-hailing company, Didi, as Beijing considers taking over control of the publicly traded Chinese technology giant, Bloomberg News has reported. It appears Beijing...
Chinese State Firm Claims Stake in TikTok’s Sibling Company
In April, ByteDance, which owns TikTok, sold a one percent stake in its subsidiary company Beijing ByteDance Technology Co. to a state-backed firm WangTouZhongWen (Beijing) Technology. The government-backed firm was also given a board seat...
Ashton Kutcher Warns of TikTok Threat, Former Employees Reveal Beijing’s Access to User Data
Hollywood celebrity Ashton Kutcher recently warned that Beijing could be using Chinese apps, including TikTok, to influence the minds of American citizens on topics such as the South China Sea and Taiwan. He conveyed his...
Class Action Suit Alleging TikTok Violated UK Child Privacy Laws Under Way
Former Children’s Commissioner for England Anne Longfield has filed a legal claim against China-owned social media app TikTok that could result in billions being paid out to UK and EU children under 13 who have...
Tom Cruise TikTok Deep Fakes Are Foreshadowing a Black Mirror Future
A series of videos appearing on Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-controlled social media app Tiktok this week showing famous actor Tom Cruise doing a magic trick, taking a golf swing, and talking about Mikheil Gorbachev appear...
Fact Checkers and Internet Censors Trace Back to Beijing
Lead Stories is a company that was contracted by Facebook in Feb. 2019 to do fact-checking. It has recently come to light that the company also does consultation work for TikTok, a firm with ties...
