Tag: TikTok
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TikTok users pay it forward to moms in new trend
To some, a purse with its tags still on in an aisle where it may not belong looks like a piece of discarded inventory. But when shopper DeNaesha Gonzalez spotted a new, shiny, unpurchased silver purse at Target — shoved between items like kid’s Tylenol and baby lotion — she saw it as a symbol of something…
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Social media influencers go dark on TikTok after promoting futuristic Saudi megacity
The videos from Saudi Arabia’s futuristic urban development project spread quickly across the internet, and almost as quickly started to disappear. At least five influencers who had been posting videos from Neom, the multiyear project launched by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to build a high-tech megacity, have either closed their social media accounts or…
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TikTok removes Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik, citing ‘covert influence operations’
TikTok said Monday it had removed accounts belonging to the Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik for engaging in what it called “covert influence operations.” The social video app said in a statement on its website that it removed accounts associated with TV-Novosti and Rossiya Segodnya, the parent organizations of the RT television network…
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Banned political ads found on TikTok weeks ahead of 2024 election
TikTok has banned all political advertising on the app since 2019, but that hasn’t stopped advertisers from running what appear to be paid political messages on the platform. NBC News found 52 videos on the platform tagged with either a “Paid Partnership” label, #ad or #sponsored that have received up to hundreds of thousands views…