TikTok will make under-16s' accounts private by default to protect them from potential groomers

Tiktok, the short video app beloved by teens, changed its rules so any under-16 will have...

Emails show the UK is watching for people who say the new coronavirus variant is 'artificial'

Social media conspiracists are claiming, without evidence, that the new coronavirus...

TikTok will add information labels to posts about vaccines as UK threatens fines for fake news

TikTok will direct anyone searching for vaccine information on the app to a dedicated...

A super political action committee run by teens is demolishing Trump with memes on TikTok

Meme PAC has ratched up more than 5 million views on TikTok.

TikTok explicitly calls out white nationalism, white genocide theory, and male supremacy as hate speech

Big Tech platforms are rushing to update policies and try and stem a flood of hate speech.

TikTok removed nearly 105 million videos for nudity, other policy violations in the first half of 2020

TikTok also conducted an internal investigation into the spread of a video of a man dying...

Experts dissected TikTok's algorithm and say a US buyer will struggle to replicate its magic

A buyer can't afford to miss out on TikTok's algorithm.

TikTok is hiring hundreds more US staff in a show of confidence against Donald Trump

The number of jobs listed in the company's New York, Los Angeles and Mountain View...