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TikTok Caught Sending User Data to Communist China, Hit with Massive Fine by European Union

Officials in the European Union have slapped TikTok with a massive fine after the social media platform was caught sending user data to Communist China. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) slapped a $600 million fine on TikTok for violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The Verge reports that…

Pro-Trump Billionaire Reid Rasner Makes $47B Bid to Buy TikTok for ‘the American People’

America First billionaire entrepreneur Reid Rasner has reportedly made an offer to buy TikTok from China for a whopping $47.45 billion. Rasner, a pro-Trump Republican former Senate candidate, asserted that he wants to buy the video-sharing platform to benefit "the American people." The CEO of wealth management company Omnivest Financial…

YouTube Star Alysha Burney Dies Suddenly in Sleep One Day Before 25th Birthday

24-year-old YouTube star Alysha Burney has been found dead after she died suddenly in her sleep just one day before her 25th birthday. Alysha's devastated brother Charles Burney announced the social media influencer's sudden death. In a statement, Charles Burney said he believes his sister suffered an asthma attack in…

Elon Musk Drops Bid to Buy TikTok, Says He’s Not Interested in Platform

X boss Elon Musk has revealed that he has dropped out of the race to buy video streaming platform TikTok. Musk said he's not really interested in the app and noted that he doesn't "have any plans for what would I do if I had TikTok." It comes despite recent…

Teenage TikTok Star Shot Dead Outside LA Shopping Mall

A popular 17-year-old TikTok star was brutally murdered in a shooting outside a shopping mall in Los Angeles, California. Nahsiyah Turner, who is known to her TikTok fans as "Siyah," was gunned down in the parking lot of the Los Cerritos Center in Los Angeles County. CBS News was first…

Biden Will Not Enforce TikTok Ban Before Trump Inauguration

President Joe Biden won't enforce a ban on TikTok, which is scheduled to take effect on January 19. An official in the Biden administration told the Associated Press that the ban won't be before President Donald Trump is inaugurated on Monday, January 20. Under the ban, TikTok is due to…

State Attorneys General Ask Supreme Court to Overrule Trump’s Request to Pause TikTok Ban

Attorneys general from Montana and Virginia have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the requirement that social media platform TikTok sever its connection with the Chinese Communist Party or be dissolved. The move seeks to overrule a request from President Donald Trump for a delay in doing so until…

TikTok Begs Supreme Court for Emergency Order to Prevent US Ban

TikTok has submitted a request to the Supreme Court to beg for an emergency order to prevent the social media app from being banned in the United States next month. Attorneys for TikTok and its China-based parent company ByteDance are requesting that the high court intervene on an urgent basis…

Biden’s Justice Department Requests Court Deny TikTok’s Effort to Avoid Ban

Social media platform TikTok is appealing to the United States Supreme Court in an attempt to delay a bill that would ban the popular app. On Wednesday, the lame-duck President Joe Biden's Department of Justice (DOJ) requested a federal appeals court step in to deny this move. Last Thursday, the…

TikTok Loses Appeal to Overturn Law That Could Ban Platform in January

TikTok has suffered another legal setback after failing to overturn a law that could see the social media platform banned in January. The threat of taking down TikTok is still alive and well. TikTok is the world's most popular social media platform that consists of short videos where many creators…