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TikTok’s Fate Looks Grim As Supreme Court Signals Support For Sale-Or-Ban Law
Image Image Credit CFOTO / Contributor via Getty Images Image Size landscape-medium TikTok might be facing a shutdown in just over a week. On Friday (Jan. 10), the social media giant presented its arguments to the Supreme Court, but judges — for better or worse — appear to be leaning toward upholding the sale-or-ban law
Indonesia, TikTok’s best market, bans social commerce
Indonesia, the world's fourth-most-populous country, has decided to ban social commerce – the practice of embedding e-commerce facilities in social media platforms. The nation's trade ministry on Tuesday published regulations that limit social media to promoting goods and services and barring them from accepting payments. Trade minister Zulkifli Hasan argued the regulation is needed because
TikTok’s ‘Overloading’ Trend Is a Crappy Way to Clean Your Toilet
TikTok’s latest ad campaign is all about how useful the video-sharing app is for learning new tricks, hacks, and skills—and it is, for the most part. When users aren’t opening TikTok to increase their knowledge, they’re usually looking for entertainment or ASMR. For some time now, one toilet-cleaning trend known as the “overload” method has
Do #MentalHealth TikToks Help or Hurt? A Therapist Breaks It Down
By Jay LankauHealthy breakfast recipes, falling off milk crates, beauty hacks, and 10 ways to know if your husband is cheating on you: TikTok has it all.There are millions of videos on TikTok, and hundreds of thousands using the hashtag #mentalhealth. Some videos have more than 9 million views. And some are from licensed therapists…
ByteDance, TikTok’s Owner, Dives Into the Fragrance Race with EMOTIF
What Happened: ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, is exploring fields beyond tech with the launch of a perfume subsidiary entitled EMOTIF. The new brand, which will be sold via third-party e-commerce platforms, will serve a contemporary clientele interested in expressing their individual personalities through aroma and fragrance. So far, EMOTIF has three products: Electronic Lover, Deep Sea…
TikTok’s Whitney Frost Mourns the Death of 6-Year-Old Son Harrison
"We are devastated. But glad he's no longer in pain," TikTok's Whitney Frost wrote to her 1.7 million followers on Jan. 1. "Thank you for loving him and our family." In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2021TikTok's Whitney Frost is grieving the death of her 6-year-old son Harrison. The social media star announced the child's passing…