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TikTok Officially Launches In-App Shopping Feature and RIP Everyone
TikTok officially launched its online shopping feature in the U.S. nearly a year after it first started testing the waters. The Chinese-owned app has now added a “shop” button to the homepage to bring its TikTok Shop service to its more than 150 million users in the U.S. TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, first started testing…
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TikTok Unveils a Live Singing Competition For Some Reason
In true The Voice-meets-Black Mirror fashion, everyone’s favourite time-waster TikTok has recently announced a live, global singing competition with the winner taking home a seemingly hefty prize. TikTok announced the competition, titled Gimme the Mic, yesterday on its blog. Gimme the Mic will feature three stages: an audition, a semi-final, and a U.S. and global…
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TikTok’s #2 Exec Bails as Company Fights for Its Life
TikTok Chief Operating Officer V. Pappas, the long-time face of the company’s US operations, is calling it quits. The top executive revealed their resignation in an email to staff Thursday saying the “time is right to move on and refocus.” Their departure comes at a time of extreme uncertainty at the company, with lawmakers at…
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Ex-ByteDance Exec Claims TikTok Gave Communist Party ‘God User’ Status
A former high-level ByteDance executive claims the company has a “back door channel” in its code that allows members of the Chinese Community Party view data from users anywhere in the world, including the US and Hong Kong. The former executive claims CCP officials have used that tool at least once to identify users involved…