Censorship of TikTok

Congressman Jeff Jackson’s latest TikTok video starts simply: “I apologize.” Last week, the House of Representatives passed a bill that could ultimately ban TikTok from the US. For many, it turned Jackson into enemy number one. The North Carolina Democrat spent the last year amassing 2.3 million followers on TikTok, leveraging the app to turn himself from a no-name first-term congressman to a downright internet celebrity. But Jackson joined 352 other House members in support of the so-called TikTok “ban,” sparking…

Donald Trump appeared to come out in defense of TikTok, the social media platform facing a potential ban by Congress, in a flurry of posts late Thursday on his social media platform Truth Social. The platform, it should be noted, experienced a widespread outage as the former president attempted to live-tweet President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech.Mourning the Loss of Addison Rae’s Debut Album | The Meme Machine“If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their business. I don’t want Facebook,…

Photo: F Armstrong Photography (Shutterstock)TikTok is allegedly being used by Chinese migrants to cross the United States’ southern border, first reported by 60 Minutes on Sunday. In interviews at the border of the U.S. and Mexico, Chinese migrants said they were able to discover weak points in America’s border wall through TikTok. Mourning the Loss of Addison Rae’s Debut Album | The Meme MachineVideos on TikTok written in Mandarin provided step-by-step instructions for crossing the border and even hiring a smuggler,…

Well, that didn’t last long. Less than nine months after its initial release, TikTok is calling it quits on its BeReal competitor TikTok Now. The apparent reprioritization at TikTok comes as BeReal, once the hottest app on the market, continues to struggle with declining users. At the same time, the app is adding features to Family Pairing meant to give parents greater control over their children’s feeds. TikTok Now users shared screenshots on Twitter of notifications they received informing TikTok was “updating the…