Age Verification Is Reaching a Global Tipping Point. Is TikTok’s Strategy a Good Compromise?

TikTok’s new age-detection tech seems like a better solution than automatically banning youth accounts. But experts say it still requires social platforms to surveil users more closely.

6 families are suing TikTok after kids die doing the ‘blackout challenge’

Six families are suing TikTok after their children died emulating the so-called “blackout challenge” they had seen on the ...
Healthline

Can TikTok’s 75 Medium Challenge Help You Lose Weight and Increase Fitness?

Here’s why this alternative to the 75 Hard challenge may be a more sustainable approach to weight loss and improved fitness.

'The Blackout Challenge': Mom suing TikTok after son choked himself to death with jiu-jitsu belt tied to bunk bed while trying viral social media trend

A Delaware mom is suing TikTok after her son died trying to "master" a viral and deadly social media trend known as the ...
Rolling Stone

Kesha Has Learned to Love ‘Tik Tok’: ‘That Was Just Me!’

Fifteen years after Animal and Cannibal, Kesha is finally feeling glittery again. Now that her long legal battle with producer Dr. Luke is over, she’s ready to reembrace her career breakthrough, which ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Hillary Clinton Blames TikTok for Misinformation Influencing Young People’s Views on Israel and Palestine

"It's a serious problem for democracy, whether it's Israel or the United States, and it's a serious problem for our young people," she said. By Carly Thomas Associate Editor The former Secretary of ...
Fox News

Homeowners terrorized in deadly viral challenge as police warn 'somebody is going to get killed'

A startling online trend is making a resurgence among teenagers who could face deadly consequences as they terrorize homeowners in a viral prank, police around the country warn. Home surveillance ...
Yardbarker

Tom Brady shares biggest challenge Arch Manning has to overcome

Arch Manning was the favorite to win the Heisman Trophy when he entered his first full season as the starting quarterback at Texas, but the year has not gone as hoped for him. Tom Brady does not ...
WLKY

Authorities in southern Indiana warn about dangers of new TikTok challenge

STATEMENT IN A CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDING. RIGHT NOW, AUTHORITIES WARNING ABOUT A DANGEROUS TIKTOK CHALLENGE INVOLVING KIDS SHOOTING AIRSOFT GUNS AT HOMEOWNERS. OUR ALEXIS MATHEWS HAS THE MESSAGE FROM ...
Seeking Alpha

TikTok U.S. valued at $14B in proposed deal, below analyst estimates

President Donald Trump has cleared a proposal to allow TikTok to continue operating in the U.S., in a deal that Vice President JD Vance said would value the app's U.S. operations at around $14B. Under ...
UPI

Researchers say dangerous 'Benadryl Challenge' still active on TikTok

Teenagers and young adults are still harming themselves as part of a social media challenge that's now five years old. The Benadryl Challenge, which started in 2020 on TikTok, has spread to other ...
Fox Business

Trump expected to sign executive order allowing TikTok deal to proceed legally, source says

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday confirming the TikTok deal complies with the law, allowing the social media platform to avoid a ban, a White House official ...