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The author claims that creating targeted content is a crucial future skill, highlighting a Singaporean business owner who uses Google Maps, Instagram, and TikTok for customer acquisition, and identifies a gap in content-based strategies for the overseas Chinese community.
A TikTok creator criticizes the obvious use of AI in writing scripts for social media content, highlighting AI-isms and the lack of a personal voice.
ScrollEd uses AI to turn textbooks into a TikTok-style feed with short videos, summaries, and quizzes, raising questions about whether it improves education or negatively impacts attention spans.
A Texas judge ruled that TikTok misled users about a child safety feature on its platform.
This article reports that generative AI tools are being used by supporters of Islamic terror groups to create fan edits, cartoons, and memes that spread extremist content online.
Hookest is a tool that tracks and analyzes the opening seconds of viral TikToks, Reels, and Shorts, providing performance data and integrations with AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini through MCP.
TikTok backed out of a congressional committee meeting to avoid questions on child safety practices, amid ongoing scrutiny over Chinese data access and following Meta's recent settlement.
This article provides a technical guide to scraping TikTok's private mobile API, resulting in a massive dataset of 4.5 billion videos that has been uploaded to Hugging Face for public access.
The author scraped 5.94 billion TikTok videos and 3.23 billion profiles using a reverse-engineering method and uploaded the full dataset to Hugging Face, with a tutorial and code provided for a fee.
Meta's settlement with US states includes provisions that could compel rivals TikTok and YouTube to implement similar safety measures, aiming to standardize industry practices for teen protection.
Raspberry Pi has released an official tutorial for building a cyberdeck, a portable computer made from DIY parts, amid a growing trend on social media platforms like TikTok.
TikTok has agreed to pay $400 million to settle a lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Justice for allegedly violating children's privacy laws under COPPA, including immediate payment and enhanced user safeguards.
A Zhejiang University study published in NeuroImage finds that watching enjoyable short videos on TikTok and Instagram Reels deactivates key brain regions involved in cognitive control, with implications for addiction and mental health.
Sabrina Ramonov runs a faceless TikTok channel with 260K followers, largely automated by AI agents that generate and publish videos across platforms using a public skill costing about 75 cents per clip.
A phenomenal AI short film has appeared on TikTok, with over 100 million views in two days and more than 10 million likes. The video is praised for its profound meaning and core message, showcasing a higher level of AI videos.
This study audits TikTok for harmful content exposure using multimodal language models across multiple countries and age groups, finding that keyword searches increase harmful content and that MLLMs provide a scalable tool for youth-safety audits.
An experiment deployed an AI-generated influencer named Janie into the Bama Rush event, where she gained significant social media attention, raising questions about human perception of AI content.
Similarweb reports that in July 2026, Bing and TikTok moved up to 8th and 9th in global website visits, WhatsApp dropped to 10th, and all top 10 sites saw traffic growth after June declines.
TikTok blames a 'moderator error' for the delayed removal of a livestream showing blogger Perez Hilton harming himself, and says it notified law enforcement and banned his account. The incident raises concerns about TikTok's content moderation, especially as the company lays off moderation staff.
TikTok blamed a 'moderator error' for allowing a Perez Hilton livestream depicting apparent self-harm to remain active for about 15 minutes, raising renewed concerns about platform moderation failures.