Meta, Google and TikTok each filed separate federal lawsuits against California on Wednesday, seeking to block a new law that would bar social media platforms from offering “addictive features” to users under 16.
Australia’s seven-judge High Court on Tuesday began hearing constitutional challenges to the social media ban on children below the age of 16, which was implemented in December 2025 and immediately challenged as a violation of young Australians’ rights, even as it prompted similar legislation around the world.
A series of messages published on social media Tuesday morning call for a wave of violent riots across Spain “inspired” by the recent chaotic events in France for Saturday, October 31, local outlets warned.
Nearly a year after the deal to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations officially closed, the newly created company, TikTok USDS Joint Venture, still leans heavily on technology and practices inherited from its Chinese former owner, according to interviews and internal materials reviewed by Politico.
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge has now granted Paramount’s settlement agreement with 12 states that sued over the company’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, allowing the companies to soon close their $81 billion mega merger.
TikTok has agreed to pay Alabama at least $100 million in a settlement tied to the state’s allegations that the formerly Chinese company made its social media platform addictive to young users and misled users about safety.
Major social media companies including Meta, YouTube, X, and TikTok are reportedly refusing to accept paid advertisements for Alex Gibney’s upcoming documentary about Elon Musk, raising concerns that the Masters of the Universe are closing ranks to protect one of their own.
The social media platform TikTok will be brought to trial in the United States after being accused of fueling a teen mental health crisis.
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During an interview with PBS’s “Firing Line” released on Friday, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) agreed that, even with the TikTok deal, we don’t have a good idea about the app’s algorithm and it’s likely controlled by the CCP. He
While the $17.6 billion settlement Meta (Facebook) agreed to last week with 47 states and several U.S. territories might seem like a huge admission that the company’s addictive social media algorithms have been harming children, a close look at the details shows a lot left on the table.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta will pay $18 billion to settle a federal lawsuit accusing it of fueling a teen mental health crisis, but nearly a third of that sum depends on whether TikTok and YouTube agree to adopt the same safeguards. The social media giant is now directly calling on its largest competitors to follow Zuckerberg’s lead.
Gaming platform Roblox is arguing that an 8-year-old girl gave up her right to sue the company by clicking “I agree” on its terms of service, according to court filings in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by her mother. The girl tragically took her own life at just 13 year old after being introduced to dark and violent subcultures on Roblox, TikTok, and Discord.
The DOJ announced Friday that TikTok and its parent company ByteDance will pay $400 million to settle allegations related to violations of federal children’s privacy laws.
Brussels has claimed that Meta and TikTok have voluntarily agreed to ramp up censorship efforts in the wake of the Ceuta migrant invasion last month.
A federal appeals court ruled Monday that more than 3,000 lawsuits accusing Meta, TikTok, Google, Snap and other tech companies of deliberately designing addictive platforms for young users can proceed.
Taylor Swift’s song “August” disappeared from a Team Trump TikTok video on Friday, days after the account used the track in a clip celebrating President Donald Trump and taunted the pop star in its caption.
The Disney Grooming Syndicate cut a deal with TikTok that allows content creators to use Disney characters in short videos.
Celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton was admitted to a hospital in Miami, Florida, Tuesday night after reports he livestreamed himself self-harming via a TikTok video, police have said.
Armed narco-terrorist groups in Colombia are utilizing TikTok and other social media platforms to push recruitment videos targeting young children and teenagers, the Colombian newspaper El Colombiano reported on Monday.
The White House unapologetically used anti-ICE Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny’s tune in a new video celebrating Trump’s deportation successes
The illegal migrant wave now storming into the enclave of Ceuta is largely driven by illicit content shared on social media and messaging platforms, Spanish outlets detailed Friday.
Pop star Katy Perry erupted on the Trump White House Saturday over a TikTok video of Iran military strikes that the administration paired with her hit 2010 song “Firework.”
The majority of President Trump’s Cabinet is set to establish TikTok accounts on Tuesday, following a Justice Department announcement that federal employees can safely use the platform after its sale to a U.S.-approved ownership group.
A federal appeals court has ruled that Ohio can enforce legislation requiring children under 16 to obtain parental consent before using social media platforms, marking a significant development in state-level efforts to regulate minors’ online activity.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) has launched legal action against TikTok to enforce the state’s 2024 legislation that restricts social media access for minors. According to Uthmeier, “Time is up for TikTok.”
A study found that Reform UK boss Nigel Farage is the most popular British politician on TikTok, as younger users appear to be shifting away from establishment politicians.
Malaysia began enforcing its social media ban for children on Monday, requiring all social media platforms with 8 million or more users to implement age-verification systems that will prevent people under 16 from creating accounts.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party Chair John Moolenaar (R-MI) stated that, with TikTok, there has been an improvement, but there are still “unanswered questions in terms of the content algorithm,
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party has accused the left-wing Labour Party government of using the Online Safety Act to censor its political opposition after TikTok removed a video criticising mass migration by Shadow Home Secretary Zia Yusuf.
On Friday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Ceasefire,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) said that the TikTok deal gives the Chinese Communist Party control over the app, Congress has to do oversight on the TikTok deal, “and push to what the legal objective”
Indonesian Communications and Digital Minister Meutya Hafid said Thursday that Google’s YouTube platform has not complied with Jakarta’s ban on social media accounts for children under 16 and could face “sanctions” if it does not begin meeting its obligations under the law.
Australia’s online safety regulator has launched formal investigations into Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, Snap, TikTok and Google’s YouTube amid concerns the tech giants may be failing to comply with the country’s landmark social media ban for children under 16 years old.
China wants to take over America without “firing a single bullet,” Raul Lopez, founding member and board vice president of RX Border Defense, explained.
Two significant jury verdicts against major social media companies have opened the floodgates for thousands of pending lawsuits alleging that popular platforms endanger the mental health of children.
The Chinese Communist Party published a national AI gameplan that specifies blurring the lines between the civil and military to achieve Beijing’s global technological supremacy, author Wynton Hall details in his upcoming book, Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI (HarperCollins).
The World Happiness Report published its annual study of “global wellbeing” on Thursday, and found one of the greatest threats to that sense of health, happiness, and contentment is heavy social media usage. This was especially true among young people, particularly young girls.
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is building significant computing infrastructure using top-tier Nvidia processors in Southeast Asia as part of its strategy to compete globally in AI development. This is one technique China is using to get around U.S. AI export controls.
CODE RED author Wynton Hall tells the Daily Mail in an interview published Sunday that China has disguised its “data vacuum” AI espionage tools as popular apps like TikTok and DeepSeek. According to Hall, users of these “Trojan Horse” apps are “effectively surrendering their privacy and security to the Chinese regime.”
A viral TikTok trend features self-proclaimed “young hoes” sharing videos of themselves showing off the shortcuts they take when engaging in everyday tasks — suggesting that members of Generation Z don’t have time for anything. As one conservative commentator pointed out, “To use that word — it’s like, ‘I’m dumb, I’m young, I don’t know how to get through life.'”
