The Canadian government is ordering the dissolution of TikTok’s Canadian business after a national security review of the Chinese company behind the social media app but said it won’t block access.

Social media food critic Keith Lee has announced he and his family have moved to Texas.

A TikTok video by Keara Kenise Anderson has gone viral, showing over 150 people lined up outside a Katy courthouse, all claiming they received traffic tickets for "improper stop" at a traffic light from Harris County Deputy R. Hubbard near Fry Road and Interstate 10.

Just weeks before the U.S. presidential election, TikTok still approved advertisements that contained election disinformation even though it has a ban on political ads.

Google, Meta and TikTok have removed social media accounts belonging to an industrial plant in Russia’s Tatarstan region aimed at recruiting young foreign women to make drones for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

TikTok has been aware that its design features are detrimental to its young users and that publicly touted tools aimed at limiting kids’ time on the site were largely ineffective.

As millions of eyes were focused on Florida as residents braced for Hurricane Milton -- one Tampa man and his small sailboat captured the hearts and attention of many on social media.

It may not feel like it, but fall officially starts on Sunday, Sept. 22! Now is a great time to start thinking about festive food and drink pairings for the holiday season. Entertaining expert Paul Zahn is teaching us how to make simple and delicious sips and bites perfect for the fall season.

Our teachers often go above and beyond to make sure their students want for nothing in the classroom...even when it means reaching into their own pockets.

“Very demure, very mindful” has become the latest vocabulary defining the internet’s summer.

TikTok sensation Jools Lebron, with 2 million followers, has sparked a frenzy with her viral "very demure" trend. Despite her popularity, two others have filed for trademarks of the phrase before she could. Over 173,000 TikTok posts have embraced the term in the past week, with brands and celebrities joining the craze. Discover more about this surprising legal twist and its impact on social media trends.

Across this week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago, more than 200 online influencers, streamers and other social media personalities have been capturing and livestreaming their impressions of what’s happening.

Nepal’s new government has lifted restrictions on the video-sharing app TikTok, nine months after imposing a ban because it was disrupting “social harmony."

Alicia Silverstone worried fans this week when she posted a TikTok clip of herself nibbling a poisonous berry she found while walking on a sidewalk.

Officials from the European Union’s executive commission said Monday that TikTok has agreed to end a rewards feature that raised concerns about encouraging excessive screen time and its effects on children.

Spend some time on TikTok and you'll see loads of people talking about digestive troubles like irritable bowel syndrome.

The Justice Department sued TikTok on Friday, accusing the company of violating children’s online privacy law and running afoul of a settlement it had reached with another federal agency.

In a fresh broadside against one of the world’s most popular technology companies, the Justice Department has accused TikTok of harnessing the capability to gather bulk information on users based on views on divisive social issues like gun control, abortion and religion.

TikTok owner ByteDance can’t avoid the bloc’s crackdown on digital giants, a European Union court says.

The owner and founder of the website Barstool Sports lost control of a boat off Nantucket before being rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard.

Local influencer Jasmine Nguyen has joined NBC Universal’s Paris Creative Collective – a group of engaging creators who will have unprecedented access to tell stories of the games through their own eyes. Check out Jasmine's interview with Houston Life's Derrick Shore and KPRC 2 news anchor Daniella Guzman.

Anyone who shops or uses the internet probably has encountered a TikTok trend, whether they know it or not.

TikTok and its bite-sized videos arrived in the United States as a global version of the Chinese app Douyin.

A dozen social and racial justice groups said Thursday that the federal law requiring TikTok’s parent company to sell the platform, or face a ban, would disrupt a vehicle that many minority communities use to form connections online and advocate for causes.

Ira Galtman is part of a small community of corporate archivists.

TikTok on Thursday disclosed a letter the company sent to the government in April accusing the federal agency that once held the platform’s future in its hands of “political demagoguery.”.

The Federal Trade Commission has referred a complaint against TikTok and its Beijing-based parent company to the Department of Justice.

A law that was passed by the Texas Legislature in 2009 has helped play a roll in the arrest of Democrat Taral Patel, who is accused of portraying himself as someone he is not over the internet.

TikTok says it has taken steps to stop a cyberattack targeting high-profile accounts, including one belonging to CNN.

Spain’s government has proposed a law to protect children from online threats that includes virtual restraining orders for felons and a higher age for opening social media accounts.

McCourt said tech companies have to become more democratic in a conversation with The Texas Tribune’s CEO.

TikTok said Thursday its putting in place new rules to limit the reach of state-affiliated media accounts.

Billionaire businessman and real estate mogul Frank McCourt says he’s putting together a consortium to purchase TikTok’s U.S. business.

Eight TikTok content creators have sued the U.S. over the new federal law that would could ban the social media platform nationwide.

TikTok says it’s going to start automatically labeling content that’s made by artificial intelligence when it’s uploaded from certain platforms.

TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, are suing the U.S. government over a law that would ban the popular video-sharing app unless it’s sold to an approved buyer.

A study by the nonprofit Brookings Institution says Russian state-affiliated accounts have boosted their use of TikTok and are getting more engagement on the short-form video platform ahead of the U.S. presidential election.

Artists from Universal Music Group, which include Drake, Adele, Bad Bunny and Billie Eilish, will be returning to TikTok as the two parties have struck a new licensing agreement following an approximately three-month long dispute.

If it feels like TikTok has been around forever, that’s probably because it has, at least if you’re measuring via internet time.

While a bill to ban TikTok if it doesn't change owners has received President Joe Biden's signature, it could still be years before the popular video-sharing app is actually blocked from U.S. app stores — if it is blocked at all.

TikTok is banned in a handful of countries and not allowed on government-issued devices in a number of others.

TikTok is gearing up for a legal fight against a U.S. law that would force the social media platform to break ties with its China-based parent company or face a ban.

TikTok has gotten a bad reputation over the years since its boost in users since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Legislation forcing TikTok’s parent company to sell the video-sharing platform or face a ban in the U.S. has received President Joe Biden’s official signoff.

President Joe Biden’s signing of legislation that could ban TikTok in the U.S. runs counter to his campaign’s embrace of the platform and outreach to influencers.

TikTok is halting a feature on its new app rewarding users in Europe for watching videos, after facing pressure from regulators worried about its addictive features.

“TikTok isn’t just a place for silly dance challenges and, funny content," Dr. Trevor Boffone, an influencer who traveled to Washington D.C. to protest the potential ban said. "There’s actually really important education and world building happening here.”

How Texas legislators voted on TikTok ban in the $95 billion national security package that will now go to President Biden for approval.

After years of attempts to ban the Chinese-owned app, including by former President Donald Trump, a measure to outlaw the popular video-sharing app has won congressional approval and is on its way to President Biden for his signature.

The European Union is demanding TikTok provide more information about a new app that pays users to watch videos and warned that it could order the video sharing platform to suspend addictive features that pose a risk to kids.

European Union regulators are seeking details from TikTok on a new app from the video sharing platform that pays users to watch videos.

Allred is the delegation’s most prolific user of the app. He said he voted for the legislation because of national security concerns.

Georgia could join other states in requiring children younger than 16 to have their parents’ explicit permission to create social media accounts.

A person familiar with the matter says the Federal Trade Commission is investigating TikTok over its data and security practices.

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“TikTok isn’t just a place for silly dance challenges and, funny content," Dr. Trevor Boffone, an influencer who traveled to Washington D.C. to protest the potential ban said. "There’s actually really important education and world building happening here.”

Numerous reports on social media have confirmed that two TikTok fitness creators were killed in a single-car accident in Houston.

European Union regulators are ratcheting up scrutiny of big tech companies including Google, Facebook and TikTok by looking into how they’re dealing with risks from generative artificial intelligence, such as the viral spread of deepfakes.

Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he’s going to put together an investor group to buy TikTok after the House passed a bill that would ban the popular video app in the U.S. if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake.

Since its inception, TikTok has been intended only for non-Chinese markets, unavailable in mainland China.

Pres. Biden said if Congress passes the measure, he will sign it. But what does that mean for people who make a living off the social media app?

The House has passed a bill that would ban TikTok in the U.S. if its China-based owner doesn’t sell.

Lawmakers are facing their latest lobbyists — online influencers from TikTok.

U.S. lawmakers are threatening to ban TikTok but also say they are giving its Chinese parent company a chance to keep it running.

House Republicans are moving ahead with a bill that would require Chinese company ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban in the United States even as former President Donald Trump is voicing opposition to the effort.

President Joe Biden has endorsed legislation that could lead to the popular video-sharing app TikTok being banned in the United States, a move that comes amid growing concern in Washington about keeping Americans' private data out of China’s hands.

The House has approved legislation that would ban TikTok if its Beijing-based parent company doesn’t divest from the popular social media platform, escalating the fight over the hot-button issue.

A bill that could lead to the popular video-sharing app TikTok being unavailable in the United States is quickly gaining traction in the House.

The European Union is looking into whether TikTok has broken the bloc’s strict new digital rules for cleaning up social media and keeping internet users safe.

President Joe Biden’s campaign is embracing TikTok to court younger voters ahead of the presidential elections, but U.S. adults have mixed views about whether the video-sharing app should even operate in the country.

In recent months the Stanley Quencher has become a must-have for millions of fans—enjoying a wave of endorsements from TikTok creators to being spoofed on “Saturday Night Live.”

A San Jacinto County constable deputy who gained more than 80,000 followers on TikTok was found dead in his Conroe home in late January, according to reports.

TikTok may look (or sound) a little different when you scroll through the app going forward.

Universal Music Group, which represents artists including Taylor Swift, Drake, Adele, Bad Bunny and Billie Eilish, says that it will no longer allow its music on TikTok now that a licensing deal between the two parties has expired.

TikTok is laying off dozens of workers in its advertising and sales unit, becoming the latest tech company to trim jobs in the new year.

Police in Friendswood are warning residents of a viral TikTok challenge that encourages people to kick and bang doors in the middle of the night.

Iowa has become the latest state to sue TikTok over claims that the social media company deceives consumers over the amount of “inappropriate content” that children have access to via the platform.

A woman who went viral on social media after making claims of being assaulted by a man outside a Houston club has now been charged after raising a large amount of money on GoFundMe, according to charging documents.

A federal judge has temporarily halted enforcement of an Ohio law that would require children under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps.

TikTok has restricted one tool researchers use to analyze popular videos.

A trade group representing TikTok, Snapchat, Meta and other major tech companies has sued Ohio over a pending law that requires children to get parental consent to use social media apps.

Before the year 2023 comes to an end, viral food critic Keith Lee shared his personal rankings of cities with the best cuisine from his food tour this year.

A study from Harvard says social media companies collectively made over $11 billion in U.S. advertising revenue from minors last year.

A trade group that represents TikTok and other major tech companies has sued Utah over its first-in-the-nation laws requiring children to get parental consent to use social media apps.

Teen usage of social media hasn’t dropped much, despite rising concerns about its effects on the mental health of adolescents.

A federal judge in Texas has upheld the state’s TikTok ban on official devices and networks.

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An Indiana county judge has dismissed a state lawsuit filed against TikTok that had accused the app of deceiving its users about the level of inappropriate content for children on its platform and the security of consumers’ personal information.

Popular food critic Keith Lee is still dropping his highly anticipated video reviews during his Houston food tour.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, local teacher Deidre Kelly turned to TikTok to inspire her students, and she has since garnered a massive following.

TikTok and Meta are filing legal challenges against new European Union rules designed to counter the dominance of digital giants and make online competition fairer by giving consumers more choice.

Nepal’s government has decided to ban the popular social media app TikTok, saying it was disrupting “social harmony” in the country.

Hyundai says it will set up “mobile clinics” at five U.S. locations to provide anti-theft software upgrades for vehicles now regularly targeted by thieves using a technique popularized on TikTok and other social platforms.

The European Union has demanded Meta and TikTok detail their efforts to curb illegal content and disinformation during the Israel-Hamas war.

TikTok and Montana faced off in federal court in a case filed by the video sharing app and five content creators who want the court to temporarily block the state's ban on the platform before it takes effect on Jan. 1.

Chinese-owned video platform TikTok says it will halt its online retail operation in Indonesia to comply with the country’s decision to ban e-commerce transactions on social media platforms.

Fans of “Mean Girls” have long since celebrated Oct. 3 by rewatching the classic 2004 comedy on TV, and then on streaming services.

TikTok has become a key marketing channel for vendors promoting steroids and other bodybuilding drugs to millions of the app’s users, according to a report released Thursday that the social media company disputes.

Chinese-owned app TikTok says it regrets the Indonesian government’s decision to ban e-commerce transactions on social media platforms and particularly the impact it would have on the millions of sellers who use TikTok Shop.

Fourteen-year-old Armita Mojazza is a huge Harry Styles fan, and TikTok knows it.