The US Department of Justice announced on Friday that TikTok will pay $400 million to settle a lawsuit filed in 2024 over allegedly violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). In the lawsuit, the DOJ alleged that TikTok collected data from children without notifying parents or obtaining consent and did not delete the accounts
TikTok is developing a feature that would allow users to send each other money via direct messages, according to a new report from Bloomberg. If rolled out, the feature would use the social media service’s TikTok Pay offering, which is already available in Southeast Asia for TikTok Shop purchases. References to the potential feature were
TikTok is laying off 250 employees and closing its Nashville office, which housed some members of TikTok’s content-moderation team. The news was first reported by The New York Times. Zanna Crowley, a spokesperson for the TikTok USDS Joint Venture, confirmed the news, saying that the shuttering was to “streamline our operations and better align our
TikTok is taking a page out of Amazon’s playbook. The social video app is testing a Prime-style membership program for some US shoppers, according to screenshots of the offer seen by Business Insider. The program, called TikTok Shop Plus, is integrated into Shop, its e-commerce platform. Like Amazon Prime, it offers its members a mix
Joel Courtney (“Super 8,” “The Kissing Booth” franchise) will star in and produce “Echo,” a psychological thriller that marks the directorial debut of popular TikTok creator Zac Stracener. Stracener, who has 1.3 million followers on the short video platform, also wrote the independent film, which is described as “a character-driven thriller that delves into the
All the big entertainment apps are starting to look the same and that’s no coincidence. For a decade, the platforms fought over who would dominate a single format: music, video, podcasts, audiobooks. Now, powered by AI, they’re fighting for something bigger: becoming the default app when you have free time, no matter what form the
