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- Ex-TikTok employees say the service worked closely China-based parent https://fortune.com/2024/04/15/tiktok-china-data-sharing-bytedance-project-texas/ 3 comments
- TikTok's new CEO says company will reveal how its algorithms work https://www.axios.com/tiktoks-new-ceo-says-company-will-reveal-how-its-algorithms-work-aff01b6c-8f33-454f-9b4a-7d52292ce501.html 123 comments
- YouTube reportedly working on TikTok competitor called Shorts https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/1/21203451/youtube-tiktok-competitor-shorts-music-google-report 65 comments
- Watch this guy work and you'll finally understand the TikTok era https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-talent-factory-ursus-magana-creator-economy/ 113 comments
- Instagram has largely replaced TikTok in India, and erased working-class creators https://restofworld.org/2021/instagram-and-class-in-india/ 20 comments india
- China orders TikTok owner ByteDance to remove work-from-home app: Feishu, a mash-up of Slack, Skype and Google Docs, allowed users to browse content from banned foreign sites like Facebook and Twitter. https://www.scmp.com/tech/apps-social/article/3081479/china-orders-tiktok-owner-bytedance-remove-work-home-app 34 comments technology
- Scientist-turned-TikTok star works to convince people vaccines are safe https://www.cbsnews.com/video/scientist-turned-tiktok-star-works-to-convince-people-vaccines-are-safe/ 3 comments nottheonion
- Instagram is reportedly working on a TikTok-like video tool for Stories https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/instagram-is-reportedly-working-on-a-tiktok-like-video-tool-for-stories-7328221.html/amp?__twitter_impression=true 6 comments india
- Avoid TikTok for government work, Dutch officials told https://www.politico.eu/article/netherlands-dutch-government-work-tiktok-data-protection/ 9 comments europe
- TikTok Secretly Scores Influencers on Cooperation, Diligence and More | The Chinese-owned video app is rolling out social credit scores for content creators related to their work on sponsored content. https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-influencer-social-score-cooperation-diligence-1849763148 169 comments technology
- How Social Media Platforms work in 2022! According to their Dirty Privacy Policies! (IG, Tiktok & Twitter & Others) https://jaskaransaini.com/thesocialjuice/ 10 comments entrepreneur
- TikTok's Gen Z creators discuss why they signed the 'People Over Prime' pledge refusing to work with Amazon until it meets labor union demands https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-amazon-gen-z-people-over-prime-pledge-labor-union-2022-8 1095 comments technology
- LinkedIn Profiles Indicate 300 Current TikTok And ByteDance Employees Used To Work For Chinese State Media—And Some Still Do https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/08/10/bytedance-tiktok-china-state-media-propaganda/?sh=7e617a46322f 3 comments indepthstories
- Hundreds of employees at TikTok’s parent company ByteDance used to work for Chinese state media outlets — and more than a dozen apparently still do, Forbes reports https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/11/23301724/go-read-this-bytedance-tiktok-employees-chinese-state-media-propaganda-connections 74 comments technology
- 300 TikTok, ByteDance employees worked for Chinese state media: Report https://wap.business-standard.com/article/international/300-tiktok-bytedance-employees-worked-for-chinese-state-media-report-122081200232_1.html 9 comments worldnews
- Browsing TikTok while working? This NFC Tag lets you block distracting apps and notifications - Yanko Design https://www.yankodesign.com/2022/06/05/browsing-tiktok-while-working-this-nfc-tag-lets-you-block-distracting-apps-and-notifications/ 5 comments technology
- More former TikTok employees are speaking out publicly about '996 culture' and 'crushing' productivity expectations that saw staff working until midnight and on weekends https://archive.ph/1ERtx 369 comments technology
- TikTok's owner is pushing back against China's notorious '996' work culture by telling staff to log off by 7pm, reports say https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-bytedance-996-china-work-staff-overtime-labor-2021-11 5 comments worldnews
- How TikTok’s algorithm works: A fascinating and disturbing analysis. https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/28/how-tiktoks-algorithm-works/ 26 comments technology
- How TikTok's algorithm works: A fascinating and disturbing analysis https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/28/how-tiktoks-algorithm-works/ 7 comments technology
- HOW ORACLE SELLS REPRESSION IN CHINA In its bid for TikTok, Oracle was supposed to prevent data from being passed to Chinese police. Instead, it’s been marketing its own software for their surveillance work. https://theintercept.com/2021/02/18/oracle-china-police-surveillance/ 10 comments worldnews
- Biden’s staff must delete TikTok from their personal and work phones https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/27/21341062/biden-staff-delete-tiktok-personal-work-phones 83 comments politics
- TikTok's new CEO says company will reveal how its algorithms work https://www.axios.com/tiktoks-new-ceo-says-company-will-reveal-how-its-algorithms-work-aff01b6c-8f33-454f-9b4a-7d52292ce501.html 3 comments technology
- Biden's campaign told staffers to delete TikTok from their personal and work phones citing security and privacy concerns https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-campaign-tells-staffers-to-delete-tiktok-from-phone-report-2020-7 1513 comments technology
- Biden's campaign reportedly told staffers to delete TikTok from their personal and work phones citing security and privacy concerns https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-campaign-tells-staffers-to-delete-tiktok-from-phone-report-2020-7 167 comments politics
- Possible TikTok Buyout In The Works https://www.thetechie.de/2020/07/possible-tiktok-buyout-in-works.html 4 comments worldnews
- Trump advisor Navarro accuses TikTok's American CEO of being a 'puppet' for working at the Chinese app https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/13/trump-advisor-navarro-calls-tiktok-ceo-kevin-mayer-an-american-puppet.html 8 comments technology
- ‘TikTok Grandma’ Who Helped Tank Trump Rally Now Works for Biden https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/technology/tiktok-grandma-trump-biden.html 133 comments politics
- ‘Working for China?’: Maneka Gandhi slams TikTok over animal cruelty videos on platform https://theprint.in/india/working-for-china-maneka-gandhi-slams-tiktok-wants-strict-against-animal-abuse-videos/427434/ 11 comments india
- New Senate Bill Doesn't Want Federal Employees Doing the #FlipTheSwitch Challenge, Would Ban TikTok on Work Phones https://www.theroot.com/new-senate-bill-doesnt-want-federal-employees-doing-the-1842293381 5 comments politics
- The economy of a server: Waitress reveals on TikTok she was paid $13.81 for 70 hours work https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/bartenders-pay-cheque-video-reveals-scary-salary-after-two-weeks-work/news-story/edb0b90f086212d7ba6ffe00c0ddf431 263 comments economy
- TikTok app banned by US Army on work mobile phones https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50952473 15 comments nottheonion
- TikTok can keep operating in US under deal being worked out with Biden. Negotiations could still go on for months as security risks are weighed. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/09/tiktok-can-keep-operating-in-us-under-deal-being-worked-out-with-biden/ 2 comments privacy
- [Steelers Depot] JuJu Smith-Schuster on TikToks: "As far as like for my concern with the Steelers, it wasn't a distraction for anyone on the team, within our locker room. Do I see myself doing that here? Honestly, I'm here to just work and just play ball, man. I'm here to work." https://mobile.twitter.com/Steelersdepot/status/1505612305416876037 157 comments nfl
- Brazilian Workers Paid Equivalent of 70 Cents an Hour to Transcribe TikToks: Some workers logged as many as 90 hours per week and complained that the subcontractors they worked for didn’t make promised payments. https://theintercept.com/2021/10/02/tiktok-bytedance-transcription-brazil/ 224 comments technology
- Starbucks fired an employee over a TikTok video made at work as brands become increasingly wary of workers’ social media https://www.businessinsider.com/starbucks-employee-fired-for-filming-tiktok-videos-is-a-trend-2021-3 4 comments technology
- Top Exec Is Out at Apple Following Claims of 'Fondling Women' in Viral TikTok | Apple has been working to fight off allegations it ignores sexual harassment complaints. https://gizmodo.com/apple-exec-leaves-after-fondling-big-breasted-women-1849598802 148 comments technology
- I don't think that's how it works. (Women goes viral on TikTok telling kids that claiming exempt on W4 means you don't pay any taxes) https://worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video-c.php?v=wshh5xiqixbxh8duadm4#comments-arena 44 comments tax
- A harrowing report from The Wall Street Journal gives us a look at what happens behind the scenes at TikTok, with former employees describing unusually long work hours, stressful working conditions, and a cultural disconnect between TikTok’s US and Chinese branches https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/9/23063350/tiktok-work-culture-stress-investigation-united-states 6 comments technology
- The harassment videos of Afghan and Pakistani perverts are endless! This time, the Pakistani pervert videotaped the women working in the market and shared it on TikTok. He mocked the cashier by throwing coins from afar. https://mobile.twitter.com/SiginmaciGundem/status/1514591975118356482 4 comments pakistan