Analysis: Limiting teens’ usage of TikTok could create artificial scarcity of content and ad inventory, media buyers warn.
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Under-18s will have to make an active decision to extend their screen time on the app beyond an hour per day and caregivers will be given more tools to monitor and control app usage.
Over 6 million people in the UK and nearly 59 million people in the US use social media influencers on TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook for health information.
In brief: TikTok has become the UK’s most downloaded app, according to research from social-media marketing agency We Are Social.
In brief: TikTok employees reportedly intervene to hand-pick videos to boost their distribution, a process known internally as “heating”.
Paid advertisements and social media posts spreading false or misleading claims about the climate crisis spiked in the lead-up to and during COP27 in November.
In brief: President Joe Biden last week signed a $1.7tn (£1.4tn) spending bill into law that contained a provision to outlaw the short-form video app.
In brief: TikTok’s parent company has fired four employees for “improperly accessing” two journalists’ user data while investigating leaks of company info.
In brief: Senator Marco Rubio and Representatives Mike Gallagher and Raja Krishnamoorthi have introduced legislation that would ban TikTok in the US.
The latest report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and Oxford University found that 81% of UK publishers have active accounts on TikTok.