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States sue TikTok over app's effect on kids' mental health
October 8, 2024 at 10:10:11 AM EDT * - permalink -More than half of American teens aged 13 to 17 use TikTok, the short-form video social media app owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company.
- https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/08/tiktok-sued-dc-addiction-virtual-currency.html
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TikTok ban moves forward as House passes bill; fight shifts to Senate - CNBC
March 13, 2024 at 8:03:12 PM EDT * - permalink -The House approved a bill that calls for China tech giant ByteDance to divest TikTok or the popular social video app will effectively be banned in the U.S.
- https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/13/house-passes-bill-that-could-lead-to-a-tiktok-ban-fight-shifts-to-the-senate.html
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Universal Music Group Pulls Songs From TikTok - The New York Times
February 1, 2024 at 10:46:15 AM EST * - permalink -The music giant, home to stars like Taylor Swift and Drake, had threatened to withdraw licenses for its tracks to the social media juggernaut if they failed to come to a new agreement.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/arts/music/universal-group-tiktok-music.html
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Ex-Google Employees Are Vlogging Their Layoffs on TikTok - GizModo
February 1, 2023 at 9:21:02 AM EST * - permalink -Recently axed Google employees took to TikTok to share how they found out if they were one of the 12,000 people laid off and what happened afterwards.
- https://gizmodo.com/google-layoffs-tiktok-ex-employees-vlogs-videos-1850042760
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Hyundai charging customers for security fix – NBC Connecticut
October 5, 2022 at 5:14:31 PM EDT * - permalink -Ashleigh Schlemmer is due with her first child on Nov. 15. She has a lot to do prepare, but didn’t expect dealing with a car theft as something that would be...
- https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/investigations/nbc-ct-responds/seymour-expectant-mother-grappling-with-car-theft-as-social-media-trend-continues/2886307/
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Southwest Airlines Pilot Asks Passengers to Stop AirDropping Nudes – NBC Connecticut
September 1, 2022 at 12:04:03 PM EDT * - permalink -A video of a Southwest Airlines pilot saying he will "pull back" the airplane and return to the gate if passengers do not stop sending nude photos over AirDrop...
- https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/national-international/southwest-airlines-pilot-asks-passengers-to-stop-airdropping-nudes/2863647/?_osource=SocialFlowFB_CTBrand&fbclid=IwAR1h2oUd4s8ZOKa9ErqolXAlazj6szUJ5sh0AYac0uC0zauy_FoLFEJB_F4#l7j8kxyuwllj5a6jo1
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YouTube TV app to gain support for YouTube Shorts - Protocol
August 23, 2022 at 7:30:33 AM EDT * - permalink -The company has told partners it wants to bring support for YouTube shorts to YouTube’s app for Android TV and Google TV.
- https://www.protocol.com/entertainment/youtube-shorts-tv-app
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Facebook is losing its grip as a ‘Top 10’ app as BeReal and TikTok grow – TechCrunch
August 19, 2022 at 5:35:29 AM EDT * - permalink -Facebook this year has been struggling to maintain its position among the Top 10 apps on the U.S. App Store, according to an analysis of iPhone App Store data. As younger consumers shift to newer social networking experiences like TikTok and now BeReal, the tech giant’s big blue app has lost traction in the App […]
- https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/18/facebook-is-losing-its-grip-as-a-top-10-app-as-bereal-and-tiktok-grow/?tpcc=tcplusfacebook&fbclid=IwAR2x8Ud51SBK6beEOk5RzwwAOWg3oPgZfJIfBiGhKBk-Euki0wG8G16wju8&guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cDovL20uZmFjZWJvb2suY29t&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMOFxi1g_xT9kyhSZ3ZKV2WqWwPyzPhCM9-yxSMUgUcV1PekKngBjApVnw0EE4sl2F28pA8HMuSXh2SNHsnioJtQkVGPMXjOlYaSJ9iKkU7jZa5k1Ic504aMWpfg2stHe9guosXq3RhQFRBaO2dc9IWODPVacJQo5d8Ykbqq1f9M&fs=e&s=cl
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Facebook is shutting down its live shopping feature on October 1 – TechCrunch
August 3, 2022 at 1:55:35 PM EDT * - permalink -Facebook is shutting down its live shopping feature on October 1 to shift its focus to Reels, the company announced in a blog post. After this date, you will no longer be able to host any new or scheduled live shopping events on Facebook, the company says. The social media network notes that you will […]
- https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/03/facebook-shutting-down-live-shopping-feature-october/
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Facebook redesign marks end of social networking era - Axios
July 25, 2022 at 10:24:27 AM EDT * - permalink -Facebook's TikTok-style redesign marks the end of the era in which your friends shaped your online life.
- https://www.axios.com/2022/07/25/sunset-social-network-facebook-tiktok