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How TikTok ate the internet
You don’t tell TikTok what you want to see. It tells you. And the internet can’t get enough.
Cheerfulness and censorship
Never before has a platform grown as fast as TikTok. We have gained exclusive insight into its content moderation and are publishing excerpts from its moderation rules: TikTok operates a sophisticated system to identify, control, suppress and direct content. The platform can throttle videos of protests and demonstrations according to its rules.
This TikTok account pumped out fake war footage with AI — until CBC News investigated | CBC News
A TikTok account sharing AI-generated videos of explosions and burning cities has disappeared from the platform. But the type of content it hosted — what experts call “AI slop” — is still going strong.
How TikTok Is Rewriting the World (Published 2019)
TikTok will change the way your social media works — even if you’re avoiding it.
TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm—It’s Your Phone
Escaping the platform's addictive grasp means first overhauling our relationship to our devices.
TikTok is pulling back on an AI feature that went haywire
TikTok is pulling back on an AI feature that added wildly inaccurate text summaries to videos from users like Charli D'Amelio and Shakira.
TikTok is China's next big weapon in the battle for Americans' personal data
Its parent company views it as an artificial intelligence platform.
🙃 (Hostile Government Takeover song from TikTok)
Inside TikTok’s Unhinged Home Remodeling Videos
We kept seeing more and more utterly absurd, hugely viral, AI-fever-dream home remodeling videos on TikTok. So we tracked down where they actually come from.
TikTok - Make Your Day
TikTok - trends start here. On a device or on the web, viewers can watch and discover millions of personalized short videos. Download the app to get started.
TikTok - Make Your Day
TikTok - trends start here. On a device or on the web, viewers can watch and discover millions of personalized short videos. Download the app to get started.
TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticis…
When Libs of TikTok tweets, threats increasingly follow
The pattern – Libs of TikTok tweets, then a bomb threat arrives – is more pervasive than previously known. And it has ratcheted up in the past two months.
Essay: How do you describe TikTok?
The automatic culture of the world's favorite new social network.
FR#151 – TikTok Won’t Be Another Twitter
The conditions that made 'leaving Twitter' a meaningful part of the open social web's identity don't exist for TikTok. What happens when people can't see each other leave?
What Comes After TikTok
Last month, the U.S. gave TikTok a choice—either its owner, Chinese artificial intelligence company ByteDance, has to sell it, or it will face a federal ban. As we wait to see how ByteDance responds, more than 25 U.S. states have gone ahead and banned the app from state employees’ devices. And ...
