
Report: TikTok influencers are promoting a home remedy to boost the immune system that could cause botulism
A report from Scientific American sets out the main available details, with claims kept attributed to their sources.

A report from Scientific American sets out the main available details, with claims kept attributed to their sources.
The company has agreed to new user limits as part of the settlement, according to CNBC.
The state had accused the platform of contributing to a youth mental health crisis.

TikTok will pay Alabama at least $100 million and add new limits for teenage users, settling claims that it misled parents about tools meant to protect children online.

The platform agreed to the payment to the US state days before the case was set to go to trial.

Like Meta before it, the social network will be required to impose daily restrictions on users aged 13 to 17.

A New Mexico court found Facebook liable for deceptive actions, while TikTok reached a $100m settlement with Alabama over safety claims, according to Al Jazeera.
The deal resolves allegations that the platform misled users about safety and was designed to be addictive for children.
A TikTok video showing UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband answering casual questions from creator Feroz Khan in New York has drawn about 1.5 million views, the Guardian reported.

A report from TechCrunch sets out the main available details, with claims kept attributed to their sources.

The UK's data watchdog fined TikTok in 2023 for failing to adequately check users' ages and remove children below the minimum age limit.

A new generation of priests and nuns is using TikTok, Instagram and YouTube to preach, as France sees a rise in baptisms among teenagers and adults.

The social network favored by teenagers celebrates its tenth anniversary on September 20, a decade that Le Monde describes as punctuated by controversies that have made the platform a prime target for American and European regulators.

A federal judge has indicated he may reject a portion of a proposed $400 million settlement tied to a 2019 privacy consent decree affecting TikTok's predecessor, Musical.ly, according to CNBC.

Superpose, a new camera app from former TikTok employees, uses artificial intelligence to analyze photos and recommend posing options, according to TechCrunch.

According to Le Monde, calls presented as "official" to revive the movement born in November 2018 are multiplying on social media, but appear to stem from a video that went viral by chance.