Social Media

TikTok is preparing to potentially make the app unavailable to its 170 million American users on Sunday, the same day a U.S. ban is set to go into effect, according to a person with knowledge of the company’s planning who spoke with NBC News.

Chinese users on RedNote, also known as Xiaohongshu or Little Red Book, have welcomed American users who are looking for a TikTok replacement.

Chinese social media app REDNote is at the top of Apple’s app store, underscoring concerns that TikTok will soon be effectively banned in the U.S., according to CNBC.

Chinese social media app RedNote is at the top of Apple’s app store, underscoring concerns that TikTok will soon be effectively banned in the U.S.

TikTok creators are urging their followers to find them on other social media sites ahead of Jan. 19, when the video app faces suspension in the U.S. 

Meta’s moderation policy to allow more “free expression” was viewed as the latest effort to appease President-elect Donald Trump, which could help AI efforts.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday will hear a challenge to a looming ban on the wildly popular social media app TikTok. Ginger Conejero Saab reports.

“Shark Tank”‘s Kevin O’Leary — a.k.a. “Mr. Wonderful” — said he’s nearing a deal to buy TikTok from its Chinese-owned parent company ByteDance to avoid the U.S. ban on the social media app.

Meta employees internally criticized the company’s decision to end third-party fact-checking two weeks before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Bluesky has seen its user base soar since the U.S. presidential election, boosted by people seeking refuge from Elon Musk’s X, or wanting an alternative to Meta’s Threads and its algorithms.

Internet star Haliey Welch, also known as the “Hawk Tuah Girl,” said Friday she is “fully cooperating” with attorneys who are representing people impacted by the recent crash of crypto meme coin $HAWK.   

The Supreme Court will hear arguments next month over the constitutionality of the federal law that could ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese parent company doesn’t sell it.

Facebook, Instagram and other Meta apps are down due to a ‘technical issue’

Thousands of social media users across the country reported some technical problems when trying to access Facebook and Instagram Wednesday, according to the website Down Detector. Down Detector showed a spike in reports of Facebook users shortly after 1 p.m. reporting the platform was down, or working intermittently, with more than 100,000 users reporting problems in that hour. A live...

California lawmakers will consider a bill to require labels on social media platforms warning of their effects on young people’s lives.

Paris Jackson is headed for the altar. Michael Jackson’s only daughter found a sweet and subtle way to announce her engagement. Paris, 26, revealed the happy news in an Instagram tribute for her now-fiancé Justin Long’s birthday on Dec. 6, including a photo of the moment he proposed. She and the music producer have reportedly been together since 2022.

Since its launch, TikTok has become one of the world’s most popular social media platforms, using recommendation algorithms to connect content creators and influencers with new audiences.

Support for the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, as well as sympathy for it, has spread on social media, alarming experts.

It is an ambitious social experiment of our moment in history — one that experts say could accomplish something that parents, schools and other governments have attempted with varying degrees of success: keeping kids off social media until they turn 16.

Telegram, which for years has had a reputation as a platform used to trade child sexual abuse material, has for the first time agreed to partner with a larger international watch group to combat such content.