The company said it wants to equip young people with the skills needed in the ever-changing digital economy

The families of two men who died after a TikTok influencer rammed their car off the road have spoken of their “enormous loss”.

A TikTok influencer sobbed in the dock as she and her mother were found guilty of murdering two men during a high-speed car chase after ambushing them.

The new format will allow users to create text-based content to share stories, ideas, poems, recipes or other written content, the app said

The videos on TikTok showed animated children, including one depicting James, detailing his abduction and murder.

People can add colours, stickers, hashtags and sounds to their text post, and can also “duet” with other users on the platform

TikTok’s chief operating officer, V Pappas, is leaving the popular social media platform after nearly five years in the role.

Montana became the first state in the US to completely ban TikTok on Wednesday when the state’s Republican governor signed a measure that is more sweeping than any other state’s attempts to curtail the social media app.

IDA Ireland has told staff to delete video-sharing app TikTok from their devices, despite the company being one of its clients.

The State's foreign investment agency has told staff to remove TikTok from work phones, despite the social media platform being a client company.

The House of the US state of Montana has given final passage to a Bill banning the social media app TikTok from operating in the state

Politicians from the state of Montana in the United States moved a step closer to passing a Bill to ban TikTok from operating in the state on Thursday.

TikTok’s troubles continue to mount.

Regularly posting images and videos of our children online infringes their privacy and dignity and can leave them exposed to the darker forces of the internet

TikTok nevertheless said that it disagrees with the decision and would consider its options.

The so-called Five Eyes intelligence-sharing partners – the United States, Canada, Britain and New Zealand – have taken similar steps.

The CEO of TikTok has faced a grilling from a US congressional committee in a rare public appearance where he made his own case for why the hugely popular video-sharing app should not be banned.

China’s government said it would oppose possible US plans to force TikTok’s Chinese owner to sell the short-video app and warned such a move would hurt investor confidence in the United States.

The Biden administration has threatened to ban the app entirely in the US

There is no evidence to suggest this has happened or that TikTok has handed user data to the Chinese government, as some of its critics have argued it could do.

TikTok has rolled out updated rules and standards for content and users as it faces increasing pressure from western authorities over concerns that material on the Chinese-owned video-sharing app could be used to push false information.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been under pressure from senior MPs to follow the US and EU in banning TikTok from Government devices.

TikTok has said that every account held by a user under the age of 18 will have a default 60-minute daily screen time limit in the coming weeks.

US government bans on Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok reveal Washington’s insecurities and are an abuse of state power, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson has said.

TikTok has said it is planning two more European data centres, as the popular Chinese-owned video sharing app seeks to allay growing concerns about data privacy for its users in the West.

Asked if “social media video-makers and wannabe detectives have been an annoyance or a hindrance in the inquiry”, she said: “Yes, it has significantly distracted the investigation.

On TikTok, #frenchonionpasta has accumulated a whopping 14.8M views 

Jordan announced it was imposing a “temporary ban” on the social media platform TikTok on Friday, a day after a police officer was killed during clashes with protesters that broke out over high fuel prices.

The content served to both accounts in their first 30 minutes on TikTok was then compared

'He fought a tough fight both in the law and in his recent illness': Richard Grogan's wife Mary and son James speak movingly of the much-loved solicitor

The singer sent her dress from the American Music Awards to a very happy fan

In her statement, TikTok's head of privacy in Europe Elaine Fox said: “TikTok strives to be open and transparent about how we collect and process our users’ information."

The report raises fresh concerns about the popular video-sharing app’s ability to catch election falsehoods at a time when a growing number of young people use it not just for entertainment, but also for finding information.

A Russian court has fined TikTok for failing to delete LGBT material, in the country’s latest crackdown on Big Tech companies.

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TikTok is riddled with misleading information, including about Covid-19, climate change and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a new research report says.

Annual report says children surveyed admitted to being contacted by strangers online, or to having friends or followers that they don't know offline.

She downloaded TikTok to ‘stalk a teenage niece’. Now, she’s about to publish her first book. From deodorant stains to washing up, Ann Russell shares her cleaning hacks with Denise O’Donoghue

TikTok's algorithm pushed Andrew Tate posts to an imaginary teenager

Karen's Diner has become a TikTok sensation – but would you pay to be served by intentionally rude staff?

We may know it for its funny videos or dance trends but TikTok is a platform where history is rewritten, political wars are waged and deceptive, misleading and outright false narratives are shaped, seeded and spread far and wide

Britain's parliament has closed its TikTok account after MPs raised concerns about the social media firm’s Chinese links. Use of the popular app, owned by a Chinese parent firm, had been an attempt to engage youngsters with the work of the parliament.

An influencer brands unsolicited and unpermitted attention as 'kindness' — and, all the while, big tech is making money from it

Some cinemas in the UK have implemented a dress code due to rowdy behaviour associated with the trend