The Biden administration is considering moves to curb U.S. investment in Chinese tech companies amid rising tensions between the U.S. and China, according to people with knowledge of the matter, cited by Bloomberg. The investment restrictions will likely come as an executive order signed by President Joe Biden in the coming months. A separate action […]
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Russia: TikTok suspends video posting over law criminalizing ‘fake news’
The social networking site TikTok announced on Sunday that it is suspending the possibility of posting new videos on its platform from Russia, due to the new Russian legislation that criminalizes the transmission of news aimed at “discrediting” the Russian army on the occasion of the invasion of Ukraine. “Because of the new ‘fake news’ […]
TikTok has restricted work in Russia due to the “fake law”. Now you can not live stream and upload new videos
The Tik Tok service has temporarily suspended the creation of new content in Russia, as well as live broadcasts. This was done in connection with the “law on fakes” adopted the day before, which provides for criminal liability for “fakes” about the actions of Russian military personnel, as well as for calls for sanctions. “In […]
TikTok will have more interesting and useful content? The platform has increased the length of the videos to 10 minutes
Content on the social network TikTok is now pretty transformed. The company began to provide platform users with the ability to create videos up to 10 minutes long. Recall that before this, the maximum length was limited to 3 minutes, and before that it was only 1 minute, having increased to this indicator from the […]
Murder, cannibalism and child pornography. TikTok moderators on company class action lawsuit over working conditions
A class action lawsuit was filed against ByteDance, the company that owns the TikTok platform, by moderators of the social network. The plaintiff in this case is the moderator Candie Frazier. The main complaint of her and other employees of the company is that working conditions are too harsh, aggravated by psychological stress. Perhaps many […]
TikTok seems to be the most visited internet destination
TikTok has reportedly surpassed Google as the most popular online destination in the world. Cloudflare, a computer security company, has revealed rankings that show that the viral video application took the first place from the search engine in February, March and June this year and has consistently occupied the first place since August. The ranking […]
Google.com ceased to be the most visited site in 2021. Who was able to take first place?
The year 2021 will be remembered for completely different events and achievements, but one of them may seem very strange to some, albeit expected. As it turned out, at the end of the current year, TikTok.com managed to bypass Google.com and become the most visited site in the world. In comparison, a year ago, TikTok […]
TikTok Kitchen is a food delivery service made popular by TikTok videos
TikTok is launching a service in the US that is no less bizarre than some video platforms. The service is called TikTok Kitchen, and it is a food delivery service. The weirdness of TikTok Kitchen lies in the dishes that will be available and on the basis on which the service will be replenished with […]
Russia: Fines on Twitter, Meta and TikTok for banned content
Russia has imposed fines on Twitter, Meta Platforms, the owner of Facebook and TikTok, for failing to remove content from their platforms that the government considers illegal, a Moscow court has announced, the latest in a series of sanctions against foreign companies. technology. Moscow has stepped up pressure on major information technology companies this year […]
TikTok for only 40 minutes a day. China banned the use of the Douyin platform for children under the age of 14
After Chinese children were banned from playing online games for more than three hours a week, there was another severe restriction for some of them. The ByteDance company, which owns the popular social network TikTok, announced that youth mode is automatically activated for all users of the platform under the age of 14, which allows […]