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Governments worldwide are moving to limit children’s access to social media as lawmakers question whether platforms are capable of enforcing…

I first encountered the Freecash app after clicking on a sponsored TikTok video with dubious claims. The advertisement didn’t promote…

TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been at the center of controversy in the U.S. for years now…

Villages looked for niches they could fill in the global market. The town of Xuchang, for instance, capitalized on its…

For years, TikTok has treated its commerce ecosystem like a fortress—what happens in the app stays in the app. But…

TikTok has quietly released a new standalone short drama app called PineDrama in the U.S. and Brazil. The app offers…

In case you didn’t get the memo, everyone is feeling very Chinese these days. Across social media, people are proclaiming…

The tech world’s nonconsensual, sexualized deepfake problem is now bigger than just X. In a letter to the leaders of…

My journey on TikTok Shop started out with a search for “hip hop jewelry.” It’s an innocuous search query multiple…

For Juárez, the main factor behind digital disruption is disintermediation. Basically, that each of us is now our own media…