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TikTok is testing an AI likeness detection tool

TikTok is starting to test an opt-in tool that scans for AI likenesses and lets creators report them to the company, as spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra. The tool is initially being tested with “some” US creators, TikTok US spokesperson Zachary Kizer tells The Verge. YouTube has been working on a similar tool […]

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Ofcom opens a child safety investigation into TikTok

Ofcom has opened a formal investigation into whether TikTok is failing to protect children from harmful content, escalating a dispute that has been running in public since May. The probe, announced on Thursday, examines two things under the Online Safety Act: whether TikTok has adequate measures to work out that a given user is a […]

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UK proposes a midnight social media curfew for older teens

The UK government has proposed a midnight social media curfew for 16 and 17-year-olds, plus limits on infinite scrolling. The UK social media curfew would switch on by default, though teens could turn it off. The government set out the measures on Wednesday, as CNBC first reported. It said the plan aims to protect older […]

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TikTok Targets AI-Generated Spam Accounts In High-Risk Topics via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

TikTok will test detection for accounts posting AI-generated spam in politics, financial advice, and medical content, and has joined C2PA’s steering committee.

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TikTok weighs about 300 more job cuts at its Dublin hub

TikTok is considering cutting about 300 jobs at its European hub in Dublin, according to an email to staff seen by Bloomberg. For the people affected, that number is not abstract. The proposed redundancies would fall on roughly a tenth of the company’s local workforce of around 3,000, and they follow a similarly sized round of […]

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Irish court tells regulator to reconsider TikTok’s China data-transfer ban

The High Court upheld TikTok’s GDPR liability and its €530m fine, but sent the order suspending transfers to China back to the regulator for review. TikTok lost the argument that mattered most and won itself some breathing room on the rest. Ireland’s High Court has upheld the Data Protection Commission’s findings that the company breached […]

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TikTok is building a super app, and most of its users have not noticed yet

TikTok is no longer just a video app. The platform has spent the past year adding hotel bookings, in-app commerce, sports hubs, casual games, microdramas, and a fintech licence application, building out the infrastructure of what the industry calls a “super app,” a single destination that handles tasks users currently spread across a dozen different […]

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TikTok and YouTube cut 4.7 million under-16 accounts in Indonesia

The number arrives with the bluntness of a government tally. TikTok and YouTube have deactivated roughly 4.7 million accounts belonging to children under 16 in Indonesia, the country’s communications minister said on 25 June. The bulk of the cuts came from one platform: TikTok deactivated 4.1 million accounts, while YouTube removed 600,000, according to Communications […]

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