Washington — U.S. and Chinese negotiators have agreed to the outlines of a deal to resolve the dispute over ownership of TikTok, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday, adding that President Trump is set to speak to Chinese President Xi Jinping later this week. “We have a framework for a TikTok deal,” Bessent said after…
Attorneys general in 14 states and Washington, D.C., accuse TikTok of designing its app to keep users hooked. Court-released edited video shows some company staff discussing the toll it can take on children and teens. [title_words_as_hashtags
Newly unsealed and edited video shows TikTok employees and consultants expressing concern that potentially addictive features of the app could harm users’ mental health. The video compilation, which was shared with CBS News by the North Carolina Department of Justice, is part of the evidence in a 2024 lawsuit the state’s former attorney general filed…
Cambridge Dictionary has added new entries over the past year, including Gen Z and Gen Alpha slang such as “skibidi,” “delulu,” and “tradwife,” its publisher announced Monday. Tradwife, a portmanteau of traditional wife, reflects a growing and controversial Instagram and TikTok trend that embraces traditional gender roles, Cambridge University Press said. The dictionary also took…
Hundreds of extreme weight loss and cosmetic surgery videos were easily found with a simple search on TikTok and available to a user under the age of 18, in violation of the platform’s own policies, CBS News has found. CBS News created a TikTok account for a hypothetical 15-year-old female user in the United…
Optical illusion personality test are fun and entertaining tests that can decode a person’s true traits within seconds. These tests are quite popular on social media as many people like to understand themselves or others better. As the name suggests, these are weird images that have one or more elements that trick the eyes thus…
TikTok has publicly denied allegations that it bought $300 million worth of TRUMP memecoins to sway US President Donald Trump. The company addressed the claims on June 19 in a post on X, labeling the accusation “false and irresponsible” and aimed at misrepresenting its actions. The statement followed comments by US Congressman Brad Sherman, who…
Washington — President Trump has once again delayed the enforcement of a bipartisan law that would effectively ban TikTok in the U.S. A deal to separate TikTok from its China-based parent company, ByteDance, has remained elusive. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday the president would sign the latest executive order this week delaying…
Khaby Lame, the world’s most popular TikTok personality with millions of followers, has left the U.S. after being detained by immigration agents in Las Vegas for allegedly overstaying his visa. The Senegalese-Italian influencer, whose legal name is Seringe Khabane Lame, was detained Friday at Harry Reid International Airport but was allowed to leave the country…
Pakistani police on Tuesday said a 17-year-old TikTok star was shot dead by a man who had repeatedly contacted her online. Sana Yousaf, who turned 17 last week and had more than a million followers across her social media accounts, was killed at her home in the capital Islamabad Monday evening. Police have arrested a…
