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YouTube Shorts now lets you chop up and remix music videos
YouTube just announced a new tool for its short-form content, otherwise called Shorts, that lets people remix music videos. This is happening just as Taylor Swift and other Universal artists are leaving the rival app TikTok.
Meta and TikTok sue over paying the EU's fee for policing content
The Digital Services Act requires platforms with over 45 million users to comply with EU stipulations.
Taylor Swift and other Universal Music tracks are disappearing from TikTok
TikTok profiles for some of the world's biggest music artists no list their available music.
Senate tells social media CEOs they have 'blood on their hands' for failing to protect children
The CEOs of Meta, Snap, Discord, X and TikTok are testifying in a hearing about child exploitation.
TikTok is the fastest-growing social platform, but YouTube remains the most dominant
The Pew Research Center has published an updated survey of US adult social media usage. Although YouTube and Facebook retain their dominant status, TikTok is the fastest-growing platform.
How to watch the CEOs of Meta, TikTok, Discord, Snap and X testify about child safety
The CEOs of five social media companies are headed to Washington to testify in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about child safety.
Universal Music threatens to pull songs from TikTok over payment terms
Universal Music Group (UMG) is threatening to pull all of its music from TikTok today following a breakdown in negotiations over royalties.
New York City has designated social media as a ‘public health hazard’
New York City has officially become the first city in the US to designate social media as a “public health hazard.”
TikTok is laying off workers to cut costs
TikTok is one of the latest companies to be hit by layoffs sweeping across tech industry over the past year.
TikTok details its plan to counter election misinformation in 2024
TikTok has shared more about its plans to fight misinformation ahead of the 2024 presidential election. And, like many of its social media peers, the company’s 2024 efforts will closely resemble what it’s done in the past.
TikTok pulled a hashtag-tracking feature researchers used to study the platform
TikTok recently pulled a tool that allowed researchers and others to study the popularity of hashtags on its app.
The FTC wants to strengthen COPPA to make it harder for companies to monetize kids’ data
The FTC is proposing changes to the COPPA to make it harder for tech companies to track and monetize children’s data.
TikTok upgrades its app experience for tablets and foldables
TikTok, which is traditionally mobile-forward, will video feeds to bigger screens with “enhanced clarity.”
TikTok adds comment filtering tools to better handle Israel-Hamas war content
ByteDance's TikTok has launched new comment filtering tools to better handle Israel-Hamas war content.
TikTok's Ticketmaster integration expands to users outside the US
TikTok and Ticketmaster have teamed up to allow artists to sell tickets to live events via the social media app. The program started in the US, but has expanded to more than 20 countries.
TikTok ban in Montana blocked by US judge over free speech rights
A US judge has blocked the TikTok ban in Montana over free speech rights.
Meta, X, TikTok, Snap and Discord CEOs will testify before the Senate over online child safety
Not every company is participating voluntarily.
Tech CEOs are set to testify in a Senate online child sexual exploitation hearing in December
The Senate wants the CEOs of Meta, TikTok, X, Discord and Snap to testify at an online child sexual exploitation hearing in December.
AI music pioneer quits after disagreement over 'fair use' of copyrighted works
Ed Newton-Rex disagrees with the company's position that copyrighted material is "fair use" for training AI models.
TikTok is shutting down its $2 billion Creator Fund and steering users to the Creativity Program
TikTok only launched its Creator Fund a few years ago, but is already killing it off in favor of a new monetization scheme that arrived earlier this year.