For-you-pages aren’t just for selling half-price hair straighteners and ill-advised parasite cleanses anymore. According to a recent report from the Pew Research Center, a “growing share” of adults in the U.S. are getting their news directly from TikTok, at a time when other platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and X are …
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As the blond, willowy daughter of a New Jersey construction magnate, Alix Earle, 22, doesn’t seem like an everywoman on the surface. Yet, since her TikTok debut in early 2020, viewers have flocked to the University of Miami senior, who’s opened up during her Get Ready With Me videos about …
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Jack Johnson can thank an anonymous shoplifter for a sudden boost in streams for his 2009 hit “Upside Down.” Two weeks ago, TikToker H1T1 bought a flat-screen television for a bargain on a secondhand marketplace, only to discover that it was seemingly stolen from an Arby’s and could only display …
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After months of threats against Chinese-owned social media apps, the Trump administration announced plans to ban TikTok and WeChat from U.S. app stores as of this weekend. “At the president’s direction, we have taken significant action to combat China’s malicious collection of American citizens’ personal data,” said Commerce Secretary Wilbur …
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On Friday evening, President Trump announced to journalists that he would be banning TikTok, effective almost immediately. Like most of Trump’s pronouncements, this one failed to come to fruition: as of this writing, the wildly popular app is still up and running, and Microsoft is currently still in negotiations to …
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To the tune of “Pew Pew Pew” by Auntie Hammy, a woman in scrubs dances as the words flash on screen: “People that were never tested are added to coronavirus death toll,” and “the virus is nowhere near as deadly as experts predicted.” Another TikTok features her in a leopard-print …
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Earlier this month, the New York Timesreported that the immensely popular Broadway musical Beetlejuice, an adaptation of the Tim Burton classic movie, would be forced out of the Winter Garden Theater by an incoming revival of The Music Man, starring the immensely popular Hugh Jackman. Many theatergoers were incensed, causing …
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