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The 7 Most Hated Brands in America

According to the 2023 Axios Harris Poll 100 reputation rankings, Twitter, Meta and TikTok are among the most hated brands in America. Millions of monthly active users across the country couldn’t keep the social media companies off the list, which...

Montana Becomes First US State to Ban TikTok

Montana has become the first US state to ban TikTok after the governor signed legislation prohibiting mobile application stores from offering the app within the state by next year. TikTok, which is owned by Chinese tech company ByteDance has come...

European Commission Staff Banned From Using TikTok

In a move that reveals escalating tensions between the West and China, the European Commission has banned the usage of the Chinese social media app TikTok by its employees due to security concerns. Authorities have until March 15 to remove...

Overlooked Book Becomes Bestseller Due to Viral TikTok Video

"Stone Maidens," a book written by Lloyd Devereux Richards in 2012, made its way to the top of the best-seller list after his daughter's TikTok video went viral, sparking a surge in sales that catapulted the book to the...

Greek Speaking Chinese Students Go Viral

Chinese students attending Shanghai's University of International Studies surprised TikTok users by speaking fluent Greek on a video that went viral on the platform. The video was posted on the platform by Marianna Lee, a Chinese TikToker, who conducts street...

A Fox Pays a Surprise Visit to the Acropolis in Athens

A fox visited the Acropolis in Athens recently. This rare incident was captured on video footage uploaded to TikTok. Marieta Fotinou's video shows a fox ambling down Dionysios Aeropagitou, a pedestrian thoroughfare beneath the Acropolis. Despite these animals being observed...

Greek Farmer Becomes TikTok Star

At dawn, before the sun begins to rise in the village of Axos in Giannitsa, Greece, 39-year-old Anastasia Kalalidou, a Greek farmer, lights up the wooden oven in her home's courtyard and starts the day off by baking or...

TikTok Accused of Exploiting Starving Families in Syria

  A bombshell report published this week by the BBC has revealed that TikTok, the short-term video hosting platform, is exploiting starving families in Syria through its livestream services. The company, known as Douyin in China, usually features videos from users...

Elon Musk Proceeds with Twitter Buyout Aiming to Create the ‘X’ App

Elon Musk has offered to complete his proposed $44 billion (£38bn) acquisition of Twitter in a U-turn on his decision to walk away from the deal. Lawyers for Musk confirmed in a court filing on Tuesday that the world’s richest...

White House Briefed TikTok Stars on Ukraine

The White House briefed a number of top TikTok stars on the war in Ukraine in an attempt to dispel fake news about the conflict last week. Last Thursday, 30 stars on the video sharing social media app TikTok met...