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Despite dominating the app market, TikTok's owner is irked that his people didn't move on artificial intelligence sooner.

Artificial Intelligence

TikTok’s Owner Seethes That It Missed the Boat on AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

It's official: major music label Universal Music Group has yanked its catalogs from TikTok, including Taylor Swift, Drake, and Justin Bieber.

Artificial Intelligence

TikToks Go Silent as Major Record Label Pulls All Its Music

By Victor Tangermann

Universal Music Group is letting its contract with TikTok expire over concerns about AI, safety, and artist compensation.

Artificial Intelligence

TikTok Facing Huge Crisis as It Loses Taylor Swift, BTS, Drake Over Its AI Features

By Noor Al-Sibai

Stanley's wildly popular cups contain lead. The company says that lead poisoning due to using the viral tumblers is "rare" — but possible.

Stanley Cups Only Expose Drinkers to Lead If Damaged, Company Says

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Stanley mug-making company has been forced to respond after a TikToker found lead in her viral bottle.

Science & Energy

Stanley Admits Its TikTok-Famous Mugs Are Made With Lead After All

By Noor Al-Sibai

A woman in Virginia has gained viral TikTok fame as "tunnel girl" because she's building a tunnel and storm shelter under her house.

Local Officials Horrified by Woman Digging Huge Cavern Under Her House

By Sharon Adarlo

A TikTok account has an AI-generated talking Jesus — and it may be an uncanny robot televangelist posing as Christ himself.

People Are Doing Something Very Dark With AI-Generated Jesus, Expert Warns

By Noor Al-Sibai

Introducing bonesmashing, an ostensible TikTok trend in which young men claim that they're hitting themselves in the face with hammers.

Doctors Recommend Not Hitting Your Face With Hammers, Regardless What You Saw on TikTok

By Noor Al-Sibai

TikTok has become a major hub for conspiracy theorists who claim that the Titanic never sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean.

Conspiracy Lunatics Think the Titanic Never Actually Sank

By Sharon Adarlo

There's a burgeoning TikTok true crime subgenre that uses AI to digitally resurrect child murder victims in disturbing tell-all videos.

Artificial Intelligence

True Crime Ghouls Are Using AI to Resurrect Murdered Children

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of ex-TikTok employees has blown the whistle on the company's list of users who watched so-called "gay content."

TikTok Reportedly Kept a Log of Users Who Watched Gay Content

By Noor Al-Sibai

Marketing professor Matthew Prince challenged his 80 students to create a viral TikTok video that receives at least one million views before he can.

Professor Says He’ll Cancel Final If a Student Makes a Viral Video

By Victor Tangermann

TikTok CEO Shou Chew finally took the stand in Congress yesterday. The biggest takeaway? Congressman Richard Hudson doesn't know how WiFi works.

Clueless Congressman Bewildered That TikTok Connects Using WiFi

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Artificial Intelligence

Someone Deepfaked Joe Rogan to Sell a Male Enhancement Product

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Chinese influencer who thought it was a great idea to purchase, grill, and eat a whole great white shark has been fined by her country for doing so.

Science & Energy

Influencer Fined for Eating Endangered Great White Shark

By Noor Al-Sibai

TikTok employees reporetdly have access to a secret "heating" button. Hit that button, and content gets boosted — unbeknownst to users.

Employees at TikTok Apparently Have a Secret Button That Can Make Anything Go Viral

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Having an AI "waifu" is bad enough — but being forced to kill her off because you've grown too obsessed with it is another entirely.

Artificial Intelligence

A Programmer Created an AI “Waifu” But His Real Girlfriend Forced Him to Kill It

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a new report, TikTok is absolutely terrible at filtering out harmful misinformation and disinformation regarding elections and politics.

Research Confirms TikTok Is a Cesspool of Misinformation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, reportedly planned to spy on the locations of specific American citizens using the popular video app's location data.

TikTok Caught Planning to Spy on the Locations of Specific American Citizens

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A social media trend where people cook chicken that's been marinated in NyQuil has caused the FDA to step in and say "stop."

FDA Warns Americans to Stop Cooking Chicken in NyQuil

By Frank Landymore

College student and visual effects artist Curt Skelton managed to convince countless users on TikTok that he was the creation of an AI algorithm.

Artificial Intelligence

TikToker Fools Fans Into Thinking He Was Created With CGI

By Victor Tangermann

Airbnb issued an apology on Monday after it received backlash for allowing an “1830s slave cabin” to be listed on its platform.

Airbnb Apologizes After Allowing Listing for “1830s Slave Cabin”

By Frank Landymore

An AI image generator made a series of ghoul-filled selfies that feature skeletal, grim reaper-like figures, one captured via smartphone in the mirror.

Artificial Intelligence

Someone Asked an AI to Show the “Last Selfie Ever Taken” and Um

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Retired US general Barry McCaffrey shared video game footage online, allegedly showing Ukrainian air defense systems shooting down Russian jets.

Retired General Accidentally Tweets Video Game Footage Thinking It’s Real

By Victor Tangermann

European Space Agency astronaut on Crew-4 mission posted the first TikTok made in space while on the International Space Station.

POV: You’re Watching the first TikTok Made in Space

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Facebook is paying one of the largest Republican consulting firms to wage a media war on competitor Tik Tok, using fake news trends and tricking reporters.

Facebook Busted Paying Consulting Firm to Turn Users Against TikTok

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Reality TV star Stephanie Matto has announced that she would stop selling her farts in jars — and start selling them as NFTs.

Reality TV Star Stops Selling Her Farts in Jars to Sell Fart NFTs Instead

By Tony Ho Tran

A viral TikTok is making the rounds about engineer David Miller retelling a rather unusual story: how he accidentally got a job at NASA.

Man Says He Got a Job at NASA Accidentally

By Victor Tangermann

A teenager on TikTok disrupted thousands of scientific studies when she posted a video telling her users to use a survey platform for extra money.

Thousands of Scientific Studies Disrupted by TikTok Teen

By Tony Ho Tran

A growing number of girls and young women are developing Tourette's-like tics just from watching videos of them on TikTok.

Doctors Say Social Media May Be Giving Young People Strange Tics

By Dan Robitzski

TikTok is full of videos attempting a dangerouns "milk crate challenge," and doctors are pleading with them to knock it off.

Doctors Warn That “Milk Crate Challenge” Is Causing Grievous Injuries

By Dan Robitzski

Canadian musician Claire Elise Bouche (aka Grimes) posted a TikTok on Friday defending her partner Elon Musk while brandishing a knife.

Grimes Defends Elon Musk on TikTok While Wielding Knife, Petting Robot Dog

By Tony Ho Tran

Vaccine misinformation on TikTok is spreading like, well, something viral.

How Are These Horrible Vaccine TikToks Fooling So Many People?

By Dan Robitzski

TikTok star Johnathon Cook uploaded a video of himself sleeping in a made bed in the back of a moving Tesla Model 3, a flagrantly illegal act.

TikTok Star Sets Up Bed in Tesla to Sleep While Autopilot Drives

By Victor Tangermann

TikTokers have been picking up Simulation Theory over the last few weeks, posting "glitches in the Matrix" to demonstrate that our world isn't real.

Kids on TikTok Are Convinced We’re Living in a Simulation

By Dan Robitzski

TikTok parent company ByteDance is assembling a team of AI experts that it hopes will build AI to develop new pharmaceuticals.

RX and Medicine

TikTok Parent Company Says It’ll Develop Drugs Using AI

By Dan Robitzski

The Trump Administration is taking the unprecedented step of barring Chinese-owned mobile apps WeChat and TikTok from US app stores starting Sunday.

Trump Admin to Shut Down TikTok App Downloads on Sunday

By Victor Tangermann

TikTok has officially sued the Trump administration for banning transactions with its parent company ByteDance.

TikTok Officially Sues the Trump Administration Over Ban in US

By Victor Tangermann

Over the weekend, the Trump administration gave TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance 45 days to sell off the app — or get kicked out of the US market.

Microsoft Offers to Buy TikTok Following Trump Crackdown

By Victor Tangermann

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters that the current administration is "certainly looking at" banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok.

The US May Ban TikTok, Trump Administration Says

By Victor Tangermann

TikTok told its moderators to suppress videos created by "ugly," poor, or disabled people to be posted on the platform's "For You" section.

TikTok Tried to Suppress Videos by Users It Deemed Ugly, Poor

By Victor Tangermann

Bored teens are posting memes, dances, and jokes on TikTok about their experiences of being quarantined during the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

Bored Teens Are Posting on TikTok About Being Quarantined

By Victor Tangermann

"Don't be a [explicative] idiot" was the big takeaway John Oliver tried to stress about coronavirus on Sunday's episode Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

John Oliver on Coronavirus: Sobering, Hilarious, TikTok Stardom-Ready

By Foster Kamer

After a man livestreamed his suicide on TikTok, the company spent three hours crafting its PR response before contacting the police.

TikTok Waited Three Hours to Tell Cops About Livestreamed Suicide

By Kristin Houser

Cybersecurity firm Check Point has uncovered major security flaws in TikTok, which was already under intense scrutiny by the U.S. government.

Researchers Find Major Security Flaws in Popular App TikTok

By Kristin Houser

The United States Navy bans its members from using short video sharing app TikTok on their government-issued mobile devices.

Navy Bans TikTok, Calling It a “Cybersecurity Threat”

By Kristin Houser

In an attempt to prevent bullying and discrimination, TikTok reportedly limits the reach of users with disabilities with discriminatory practices.

TikTok Secretly Hid Videos by Fat, LGBTQ, Mentally Disabled Users

By Dan Robitzski

After a TikTok video criticizing China's systematic anti-Muslim discrimination went viral, its creator found herself locked out of her account.

TikTok Bans 17-Year-Old for Criticizing China

By Dan Robitzski

Militants for the terrorist group Islamic State, also known as ISIS, are using the social media video app TikTok to spread propaganda.

ISIS Is Using TikTok to Spread Propaganda

By Victor Tangermann

An experimental TikTok feature available in China lets users highlight someone's face and search for any other time it appears in a post.

Science & Energy

TikTok Tracks Users With Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

The Chinese government has a startling level of control over TikTok, according to leaked documents that reveal how the government censors political posts.

TikTok Mods Censor App for China, Scrubbing Tiananmen Square

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese-owned video social media sharing app TikTok is accused of censoring its user's content surrounding protests against in the government in Hong Kong.

China Appears to Be Censoring Hong Kong Protests From TikTok

By Natalie Coleman

#globalwarning videos on Tik Tok show people slowly melting in the heat as global climate change gets worse and worse around them.

Climate Change Is Officially a TikTok Meme

By Dan Robitzski