President Donald Trump has extended the deadline for TikTok’s sale in the US for a further 90 days. The video-sharing app has faced questions over its future after the US passed a law last year requiring the app to be banned unless sold by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. Lawmakers said it posed a risk...
TikTok will live on for at least another three months in the United States, as President Donald Trump is poised to extend a sale or ban deadline for the third time since taking office this year. “President Trump will sign an additional Executive Order this week to keep TikTok up and running,” White House Press...
Getty Images Patients who film their own medical treatment for TikTok or Instagram could be putting themselves and NHS staff at risk, the Society of Radiographers (SoR) has warned. The trade union’s annual conference heard that more patients were videoing their procedures on mobile phones, often without asking permission. This could distract staff or make...
A 22-year-old man has been arrested in Pakistan and confessed to the murder of 17-year-old social media influencer Sana Yousaf, according to police. Authorities say they believe Umar Hayat murdered Ms Yousaf at her home in Islamabad on Monday after she rejected what they called his “offers of friendship”. He allegedly also repeatedly tried and...
TikTok is preventing users searching for “skinnytok” – a hashtag which critics say directs people towards content which “idolises extreme thinness.” Content associated with the hashtag includes videos showing people’s work-out routines or what they eat in a day. TikTok said it had “blocked search results for #skinnytok since it has become linked to unhealthy...
Charlotte Edwards Business reporter, BBC News Getty Images TikTok users are selling food without listing allergen information, the BBC has found. Listings on TikTok Shop show people selling snacks and sweets without highlighting they contain one of the 14 main allergens that UK businesses are legally required to declare. When the BBC brought these listings...
Getty Images Ruth Clegg Health and well-being reporter It’s a condition that affects more than 10 million people in the UK. It can change futures, end careers, and shrink worlds. So when a hack comes along that says it can “cure”, or at the very least fend off a migraine, people will try it. While...
A 23-year-old Mexican social media influencer has been shot dead while live streaming on TikTok, the state prosecutor’s office said. Valeria Marquez was killed when a man entered her beauty salon in the city of Guadalajara “and apparently fired a gun at her”, according to the Jalisco state prosecutor’s office. The motive for the fatal...
Zhara Simpson BBC News, South West Sophie Roberts The artist and social media star Sophie Tea (right) took her popular social media project to Tavistock A social media star and artist who upcycles charity shop items for her one million Instagram followers each week has taken the project to her parents’ home town for the...
Myanmar authorities have arrested an astrologer for causing panic by predicting a new earthquake in a viral TikTok video. John Moe The posted his prediction on 9 April, just two weeks after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake killed 3,500 people and destroyed centuries-old temples in the South East Asian nation. He was arrested Tuesday for making...
Meta has an independent Oversight Board that reviews and makes decisions about content. The way this usually works, it seems is that someone challenges the content and the Oversight Board acts as a kind of final court where the content is judged for compatibility with the site’s rules. Last year, two posts on Meta by...
Chloe Hughes BBC News, West Midlands Tania Pomroy Charlotte Thomas (right) died in February 2024 when she was 25 “I don’t know anyone else my age that is married… never mind married and widowed.” Growing up in Birmingham, Tania Pomroy moved to Coventry to study at university. When she arrived at her student halls, she...
Ellen Knight BBC Radio Shropshire BBC Reverend Pippa White is the curate for Fauls, Tilstock, and Whitchurch – and a rising star on TikTok Pippa White is 29 years old. Like many woman her age, she enjoys Taylor Swift’s music, plays rugby and makes TikTok videos in her spare time. The one difference? She is...
James Dawson BBC North West, Social Media Lead BBC Social media user zoë bread operates under a loaf-based alias A masked campaigner who hides her face behind a slice of bread in viral TikTok videos about parking fines has forced Manchester City Council to review its signage policies. The T-shirt designer and filmmaker, who goes...
A year ago Congress passed a law giving TikTok’s Chinese owner a deadline to divest itself from the company or face it being shut down in the US. After a court battle which TikTok lost, that deadline for a sale was set to be Joe Biden’s last day in office. But Biden decided to drop...