Facebook is suing One Audience, a data analytics company that allegedly developed a malicious SDK, or software development kit and then paid app developers to include it in their apps.
The World Health Organization has just joined TikTok, in an attempt to share accurate information about the coronavirus to people who use the app. This is a timely decision, as more and more people start to panic about the potentiality of a global pandemic.
A 13-year-old boy has been taunted and bullied for his book reviews on Instagram, and top authors have come to his defense. Callum Manning from South Shields, started an Instagram account just last week to share his thoughts on some of his favorite books.
TikTok has finally responded to and taken action against a new viral challenge, called the ‘skull-breaker’ challenge, by banning it. The stunt involves two people tricking a third into learning a TikTok dance.
Best friends Beth McDaniel and Ellen Watson recently posted a video of themselves getting ready to go out for the night, and they had no idea that they were about to go viral. The video of them getting glammed up received upwards of 500k views overnight, and it’s not because of what they were wearing or their before and after glam shots.
Facebook is planning on making its messenger app even simpler, by getting rid of the Discover tab. This change was tentatively announced last year in August, but the actual switch-over will only start happening at the beginning of next week.
This guide is intended to help parents understand the impacts of social media on their children’s mental health. Researchers at the University of Chicago found that social media is more addictive than alcohol and cigarettes, which shows that it poses a risk to children who are on it and use it on a daily basis.
TikTok was a pretty big crowdpleaser in 2019, which means that if our predictions are correct, it’s going to knock it out of the park in 2020. However much you know about TikTok, you’ve got to be in it to win it, which means that you’ve got to be on there and promoting yourself. You’ve also got to have your finger on the pulse of what’s trending, too, so you can beat everyone else to it.
If you’re on TikTok, you’ll know that one of the things that its users love to do the most is to compete and get involved in viral challenges. Not that long ago, a skull-breaker challenge came out, causing groups of friends to trip each other over so that they fell to the ground. The latest challenge doesn’t appear to have moved on very far from this – it involves teens swerving all over the road in time with the beat.
Marc Faddoul is an artificial intelligence researcher, who just recently joined TikTok. When he did, he found the recommendations section a bit odd. He said that the profiles that were suggested he follow seemed to look very similar to the profile picture of the first account.