In January 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld U.S. legislation that would effectively ban TikTok, citing national security concerns over its Chinese ownership. This legal ruling set off a wave of uncertainty for the millions of American users who rely on the app for entertainment, connection, and even business. ImmediatelyContinue Reading
US President Donald Trump said on Sunday (Mar 9) that his administration was in touch with four different groups about the sale of Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok, and that all options were good. TikTok’s fate has been up in the air since a law requiring its owner ByteDance toContinue Reading
One day in mid-January, California-based social media influencer Candise Lin woke up and found that hundreds of thousands of so-called TikTok refugees were suddenly flocking to Red Note, a Chinese social media app she uses every day. Lin doesn’t want to claim the whole thing happened because of her, butContinue Reading
Personal stagnation or decline, let alone admitting to it, would suggest failure – and self-congratulation is far more palatable than perceived self-pity on social media. The latter may prompt comments to the effect of “things will work out”, a platitude that only serves to ease the commenter’s discomfort as anyoneContinue Reading
Twenty-six days after it was banished from US app stores, TikTok has returned to the iOS App Store and Google Play store. Apple and Google brought back the Chinese-owned video app after receiving a letter from US Attorney General Pam Bondi assuring the companies they would not be fined forContinue Reading
In 2024, the Malaysian security services carried out more than 20 terrorism-related arrests in the country. These included two inter-state operations in June that involved the arrests of individuals in the states of Johor, Kelantan, Penang, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, and Perak. The recent arrests in the country underscore an evolvingContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: TikTok said on Friday (Feb 7) it was allowing US Android users to download and connect to the short video app through package kits on its website, in an effort to circumvent restrictions on the popular platform in the country. Apple and Google have not reinstated TikTok to theirContinue Reading
Zoë Schiffer: Booktok got me fully immersed in the romantasy world. Now I’m incapable of reading normal literature. Thank you. Lauren Goode: I’m going to assume that romantasy is romance and fantasy? Zoë Schiffer: Oh, yes it is. Dragons. There’s fairies, there’s dragons. I’m not proud of this, but IContinue Reading
