TikTok and the Sorting Hat - TikTok's algorithm is so good at organizing users into subcultures that it was able to skip the awkward early phases of new social media ~tech social media Article 4984 words 11 votes
A summary of the developments over the weekend regarding Microsoft's potential acquisition of TikTok ~tech microsoft social media Article 574 words 8 votes
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin confirms TikTok is under review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US following national security concerns ~tech social media security.national Article 724 words 11 votes
The TikTok war - How TikTok exposed Facebook's blindspot, and why its Chinese roots make TikTok a genuine concern ~tech social media security facebook Article 3976 words 8 votes
Amazon orders employees to remove TikTok from phones, then backtracks ~tech amazon security Article 253 words 10 votes
TikTok is getting caught up in the geopolitical conflict between China and the US ~tech social media Article 612 words 8 votes
LinkedIn iOS app is copying the contents of the clipboard on every keystroke ~tech privacy ios social media Tweet 13 votes
Indian government bans fifty-nine Chinese apps for security reasons ~tech security Article 348 words 11 votes
India bans fifty-nine Chinese apps, including TikTok, ShareIt, UC Browser ~tech Article 366 words 20 votes
Internal TikTok policies instructed moderators to suppress videos featuring unattractive, disabled, or poor people so they wouldn't scare off new users, as well as to remove specific types of content ~tech social media Article 2653 words 21 votes
After a TikTok user in Brazil live-streamed his suicide, TikTok took over an hour to notice and then spent three more hours figuring out a PR strategy before informing police ~tech social media Article 1827 words 16 votes
Multiple vulnerabilities discovered in TikTok enabling sending arbitrary links through SMS, exposing private account data, and more ~comp security Article 2034 words 11 votes
The biggest star at YouTube's VidCon 2019 was TikTok ~tech social media Article 1965 words, published Jul 12 2019 4 votes
The serene pleasure of watching people cook in the Chinese countryside ~food cooking.outdoor Article 837 words, published May 3 2019 7 votes
TikTok might be a Chinese Cambridge Analytica-scale privacy threat ~tech privacy social media Article 2659 words 13 votes
TikTok will change the way your social media works — even if you’re avoiding it ~tech social media Article 2620 words 16 votes
Musical.ly/TikTok agrees to pay $5.7M to settle FTC allegations that it violated children’s privacy law ~tech privacy Article 760 words 10 votes
Facebook launches Lasso, its music and video TikTok clone ~tech facebook social media Article 523 words 9 votes
TikTok surpassed Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube in downloads last month ~tech social media Article 441 words 14 votes