List of All Articles with Tag 'tok'

Provides an overview of Kiribati, including key dates and facts about this Pacific island country.

TikTok is stepping up efforts to counter misinformation, incitement to violence and hate relating to the Israel-Hamas war on its online platform, it announced Sunday, days after the European Union (EU) warned social media companies they risked falling foul of the bloc's content moderation laws.

The social media firm lists what it is doing to tackle misinformation after a warning by the EU.

BRUSSELS Short video app TikTok said on Sunday it had immediately mobilised resources and personnel to counter hate

How false claims, conspiracy theories and hateful content shapes the general public's view of the war.

A woman has said she asks people about their financial status on first dates. Sofia Franklyn posted a clip from her podcast on her TikTok account explaining her controversial approach to finding love. She said: "I'm not joking, I've asked the last three dudes I've dated for their bank account info on the first date." And when she was asked why, she responded: "Because I only want to date a wealthy guy that has money." "I think, you know, I have a job, I'm very successful. So I think I have every f**king right to be like, hi, are we on the same level or am I wasting my time?", she said. @sofiafranklyn I think im just being efficient? #sofiawithanf Responding, people thought it was a bit much. One wrote: "Does love and genuine connection just not exist anymore?" Another said: "Podcast equipment should come with a license." And a third wrote: "Could have a billion dollars, if she asks this I’m leaving and not paying for the date lol." What do you think? Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

A TikTok that has a filter on to show what the world looks like to people who are colour blind has caused people to ponder whether they themselves are too after believing the filter to be "normal". Colour vision deficiency (CVD) is believed to affect 300 million worldwide, and around three million people in the UK (about 4.5% of the the country's population). The condition where people struggle to tell various colours apart affects approximately 1 in 12 men (8 per cent) and 1 in 200 women. Yellow, red and green are the colours which those with CVD struggle to distinguish and are known as 'red-green' colour vision. While 'blue-yellow' deficiency does too exist where blue, greens and yellows are trickier to differentiate, this is less common. A recent viral TikTok by Tess (@tessromie) used a filter that could filter that demonstrate how colourblind people view the world. In text captions she wrote: "Discovering how my colour blind husband sees the world." “I’m in shock and I’ll never recover," she added. @tessromie I’m in shock and I’ll never recover #colorblind #husband #dogvision Since sharing the video, it now has over 3.6m views with people flocking to the comments section where they realised they too may be colourblind. One person said: "...it literally looks normal to me." "Yo that’s how I see," another person wrote. Someone else added: "Yeah I seriously don’t notice a thing that's different, colorblind gang." "I'm colorblind and I literally watched the video over and over trying to figure out what they were talking about," a fourth person commented. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

KUALA LUMPUR Short video app TikTok is committed to taking proactive measures to address issues raised by Malaysia,

A New Hampshire college student on Thursday pleaded guilty to federal charges of threatening to kill a member of Congress after he became angry while drunkenly scrolling on TikTok.

X, formerly Twitter, is being investigated over the possible spread of terrorist and violent content after Hamas' attack on Israel.

By Foo Yun Chee and Sheila Dang BRUSSELS/DALLAS (Reuters) -EU industry chief Thierry Breton on Thursday opened an investigation into

A Montana federal judge on Thursday tore into a contested state law that bans TikTok from all personal devices, saying in a hearing that the legislation appears driven by "paternalistic" views of social media users and suggesting lawmakers could have taken many steps short of an attempted ban to achieve their goals.