A trade group representing French authors and screenwriters said today that it had launched legal action against Chinese social media group TikTok over alleged copyright infringements. The Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers (SACD), a non-profit collective that represents around 60,000 writers for cinema, TV, theatre, and comedy shows, s...
TikTok removed more than 189 million videos in the second quarter due to community guidelines violations, according to a recent statement from the firm. More than 99% of the removed content was taken down following user reports, while more than 90% of the removed videos were removed without being viewed for April – June, reports [&hellip...
•Donald Trump US President Donald Trump hailed yesterday a call with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, claiming a deal to sell blockbuster app TikTok could be a “formality” and saying he would visit China, which gave a more cautious assessment of their talks. The leaders of the world’s two largest economies spoke by telephone for the […]...
The United States announced today a “framework” deal with China to resolve their dispute over TikTok that calls for the Chinese-owned app to pass to US-controlled ownership. In a social media post, US President Donald Trump said — without directly naming the social media giant — that a deal was reached with a “certain company […]...
Online privacy campaigners filed fresh complaints against social media giant TikTok and two other Chinese-owned companies today, saying they had failed to comply with data access requests. Prominent Austria-based privacy campaign group Noyb (None of Your Business) already filed complaints against the three and another three Chinese-owned compa...
US President Donald Trump will this week give TikTok a fresh 90-day extension to find a non-Chinese buyer, the White House said yesterday, the third time he has put off a threatened ban on the popular app. A federal law requiring TikTok’s sale or ban on national security grounds was due to take effect the […]
•Terrorists and TikTok Jihadists in northeastern Nigeria are surging — and using social media to spread the word of their campaigns and recruit fighters. At least 100 people were killed in the new wave of jihadist attacks in April alone, as the governor of Borno, the epicentre of the violence which has raged since 2009, […]
•TikTok app on a smartphone screen in front of the TikTok logo Amazon has made a last-minute bid to buy TikTok, which faces a US ban if not sold by its Chinese owner. The offer arrived in a letter to officials involved in talks regarding the sale of TikTok to appease US national security […]
Tiktok has removed 2.4 million videos posted by Nigerian users in the fourth quarter of 2024 for violating its content policy. TikTok, owned by Bytedance, revealed that Nigeria was among the top 50 countries where videos violating its policies emanated from in Q4, reports The Guardian. The platform, which disclosed this in its latest Community...
•El-rufai Former Kaduna Governor Nasir el-Rufai has created an official account on the social media platform, TikTok. With over 200,000 followers in just 24 hours, his announcement video has racked up an impressive 1.9 million views with over 21,000 comments, reports The Nation. El-Rufai in the video said his TikTok page aims to share his [&he...
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