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TikTok removes 20m videos from Pakistan for violating community guidelines

Chinese-owned TikTok has said that between January and March, it has removed  166.99 million videos worldwide for breaching the platform’s community guidelines.

Popular Iraqi social media influencer Ghufran Sawadi shot dead by unknown gunman

Iraqi social media influencer Ghufran Sawadi, better known as Umm Fahad, was shot dead by an unknown gunman outside her house in Baghdad on Friday.

TikTok influencer Eva Evans,29, dies, cause of death not disclosed

Popular TikTok influencer Eva Evans, who created and featured in web comedy series "Club Rat", died at the age of 29, leaving her followers mourning.

US govt might sue video app TikTok for allegedly deceiving users

The US Federal Trade Commission has been investigating social media platform TikTok, which is owned by the China-based company ByteDance, for faulty privacy practices and might decide to ...

TikTok rarely used for extremist purposes but some content becomes viral, says UK official

Most people in the world do not use TikTok for extremist purposes, but some content, originally published there, becomes viral, Robin Simcox, Commissioner for Countering Extremism at the ...

Minor boy dies in Britain after 'chroming' challenge goes wrong

The family of an 11-year-old from the United Kingdom has claimed that he died due to a challenge which is going on in the Chinese-owned app TikTok.

Nepal govt bans Chinese app TikTok

Nepal has joined the list of nations now which have banned Chinese tech giant Bytedance-owned video-sharing platform TikTok.

US: Montana receives support of 18 other states in case challenging TikTok ban

The US state of Montana received the support of 18 other states in its attempt to restrict social media platform TikTok, according to an amici curiae brief filed in the US District Court ...

Handling children's data in Europe: Chinese-owned TikTok fined 345 million euros

Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) has fined Chinese-owned short video platform TikTok for breaching privacy laws related to the processing of children's personal data i ...