The video app drives streams on Spotify and influences the Billboard charts. Years after she broke through as a musician, the singer is gaining new fans, one viral dance soundtrack at a time.
Category: TikTok (ByteDance)
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TikTok Shakes Up Leadership Amid Questions About Its Future
The app’s chief operating officer is stepping down, and the company is bringing in a new executive to run its sprawling communications department.
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In Los Angeles, Beauty 2 the Streets Battles Homelessness With Soap and Beauty
Through Beauty 2 the Streetz, Shirley Raines helps those without a home by administering a little “spiritual C.P.R.”
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As U.S. and Chinese Officials Meet, Businesses Temper Their Hopes
Chief executives in the U.S. have long pushed for closer ties between the two countries. Now they just hope a rocky situation won’t get worse.
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The Titanic Truthers of TikTok
On the short-form video app, long-established facts about the 1912 disaster at sea are being newly litigated as musty rumors merge with fresh misinformation and manipulated content.
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Cómo hacer que los niños pasen menos tiempo frente a las pantallas
Los padres preocupados tienen muchas herramientas a disposición, incluido software gratuito de Apple y Google, para supervisar cómo los niños usan su tecnología.
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TikTok, Shein and Other Companies Distance Themselves From China
Companies are moving headquarters and factories outside the country and cleaving off their Chinese businesses. It’s not clear the strategy will work.
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Daddy, Are You an Influencer?
Fueled by the pandemic and TikTok, a market for content made by fathers has staying power. Meet the “Dadfluencers.”
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A Sex-Shaming Rant About Margaritas Accidentally Became the Song of the Summer
Angel Laketa Moore, a comedian and actor, remixed a sexually explicit Evangelical sermon.
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Louisiana Passes Bill That Would Require Parental Consent for Kids’ Online Accounts
The measure would allow parents to cancel the contracts underlying their children’s accounts on sites like TikTok, Instagram, Roblox and YouTube.
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New York Nico Celebrates the City’s Colorful Side
Nicolas Heller, better known online as New York Nico, has developed a following in part by not being the star of his own feeds.
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Senators Accuse TikTok of Misleading Congress on U.S. User Data
Two senators sent a letter to TikTok’s C.E.O. on Tuesday with questions about how user data may be stored and accessed in China following new reports in May.