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Congressman says TikTok backed out of a meeting to avoid child safety questions

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TikTok backed out of a congressional committee’s “public roundtable” set for this month over concerns it would be asked about child safety practices, the chair of the committee said. After negotiating “in good faith” to bring TikTok’s chief security officer before the House Select Committee on China to answer questions about Chinese government access to […]

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ByteDance raises $29.6bn, Asia’s second-biggest loan this year, and pays less for it

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ByteDance has landed a $29.6bn loan, the second-largest in Asia this year and roughly three times what the TikTok owner borrowed offshore in 2024. Banks put in more than $30bn of orders for a facility that started life at $20bn. The terms were first reported by Bloomberg. Citigroup and JPMorgan are coordinating the deal, which runs […]

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Meta is holding back $5.3bn unless TikTok and YouTube match its teen rules

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Meta will hold back about $5.3bn of its teen safety settlement. The money moves only if TikTok and YouTube adopt the same rules and pay matching sums. The company set out the structure in a newsroom post on Wednesday, hours after agreeing to settle the states’ case. Meta puts the full payment at approximately $18bn, […]

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Eight months after Australia’s ban, teen TikTok use is down one percentage point

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Eight months into the world’s first under-16 social media ban, 26% of Australian children aged 13 to 15 are still using TikTok, one percentage point below where the figure sat before the law took effect. The data comes from the parental control software maker Qustodio, and it puts numbers to something already visible in the […]

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Brazil fines TikTok’s owner $29.9m over children’s data, including guest sessions

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Brazil has fined TikTok’s owner over the way it handled children’s data, and the ruling covers people who never had an account. The National Data Protection Agency imposed a penalty of 153.7 million reais on ByteDance on Tuesday, worth about $29.9m. It cited irregularities in the processing of data belonging to children and adolescents. TikTok […]

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Meta and TikTok agree to fact-check border content after Ceuta tragedy

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Meta and TikTok have agreed to fact-check content about Spain’s border crossings, a voluntary commitment brokered by Brussels after a catastrophe that showed how quickly a viral video can turn into a matter of life and death. The accord follows the events of 30 July, when more than 70,000 migrants surged towards Ceuta, the Spanish […]

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TikTok blames ‘moderator error’ on slow response to Perez Hilton livestream

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TikTok says a “moderator error” delayed the removal of a livestream that appeared to show blogger Perez Hilton harming himself, as reported earlier by Wired. Jamie Favazza, a spokesperson for TikTok US, tells The Verge that the platform notified law enforcement about the situation and banned Hilton’s account for violating its community guidelines. Hilton, or […]

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