Rising TikTok Star Dies at Age 17 in Southern California Shooting Incident
TikToker Siyah died at 17 in a shooting incident. Days before her death, She posted her typical dancing content for an audience of over 220,000 followers.
California lawmakers are big on TikTok. What happens if Trump bans the app?
Can't download TikTok? Here's why the app is still unavailable despite Trump's order
How China is reacting to Trump amid tariff threats, TikTok bans
Republican state AGs await Trump-brokered TikTok deal, remain skeptical on app safety
President Donald Trump has signaled a potential deal to save TikTok over the weekend, as Republican attorneys general are skeptical of the app's safety but await Trump's action.
Influential California TikTok creators to lose platform if ban goes into effect
With the TikTok ban poised to go into effect Sunday, some influential California creators will lose their main platform.
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Millions of Californians use TikTok. What happens if the popular app is banned?
Sacramento-area influencer Maddy Edmunds reluctantly joined TikTok in 2021 after spending three years posting content about local businesses and events on Instagram. Her friends told her that she ...
TikTok is back — and it's harming kids ‘at an industrial scale,' says psychologist
After briefly going dark in the U.S., TikTok is back following an executive order. That's not good for young users, says psychologist Jonathan Haidt.
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UC Berkeley Research Scientist Breaks Down the TikTok Ban, the “Digital Divide,” and the Rise of RedNote
In a historic development, Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok has become the center of a bipartisan bill to ban the app nationwide in the name of national security. Xiao Qiang, a research scientist at the UC Berkeley School of Information and a prominent scholar in the study of state censorship,
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TikTok content creators feeling confusion over the app's fate
Bay Area content creators say they feel uneasy about how TikTok’s uncertain future will impact their businesses.
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Influential California TikTok creators to lose platform if ban goes into effect
The TikTok ban, which will take effect this weekend, will result in the loss of the main platform of some influential California creators. The Chinese parent company of TikTok, ByteDance, has ...
TikTok stops working for US users, disappears from Apple, Google stores
TikTok's app was removed from prominent app stores on Saturday just before a federal law that would have banned the popular social media platform was scheduled to go into effect.
From backing a ban to being hailed as a savior: Inside Trump’s TikTok shift
NEW YORK (AP) — During his first term as president, Donald Trump led the effort to ban TikTok, the hugely popular video-sharing site he said posed a threat to U.S. national security. But on the eve of his return to the White House, the president-elect is being hailed as the app’s savior.
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From the Front Lines of a California Wildfire
M. R. O’Connor embeds with a wildfire-fighting crew. Plus: a new cartoon-guessing game; why Trump pardoned the Silk Road founder; and Celia Paul and the power of looking.