AI Face Swaps on TikTok Are Getting Out of Control
Kevin Abbaszadeh Technology Editor AI face-swap videos have taken over TikTok in a way that very few people anticipated. In
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Trump and Xi come to a new agreement on TikTok
This week brought the sharpest movement in months: Donald Trump said Xi Jinping has “approved” a deal a U.S.-controlled TikTok that would avert a shutdown. Beijing hasn’t confirmed that narrative, and reporting remains split on whether there’s a final agreement or just a political green light to keep negotiating. In short: momentum, not closure.
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Tiktok: Revolutionary Advertising for the Olympics
The Olympics is arguably the most globally anticipated athletic event. With over 200 countries participating this past summer, it is already a well-known competition that brings in viewers from around the world to spectate. This year, the viewership at NBCUniversal was like no other showing results of up nearly 82% from the Tokyo Olympics that was held in the summer of 2021.
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TikTok on the Clock: House Passes ByteDance Crackdown Bill
In recent developments, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a significant bill targeting TikTok. This legislative move, propelled by bipartisan support, compels ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, to divest its interests in the app or face a complete ban from U.S. app stores within a year.
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Big Tech Executives Face Emotional Senate Hearing Amid Calls for Child Safety Legislation
In an emotionally charged Senate hearing, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized to families of child abuse victims, acknowledging the gravity of the harm caused by social media platforms. The session, which included executives from TikTok, X, Snap, and Discord, underscored lawmakers’ desperation to implement new protections for children online.
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Biden Administration Aims Ban at TikTok
Despite this aura of levity that the general population has of the app, this rise has always been closely eyed by U.S. lawmakers. The main issue for officials is the massive amount of data on the U.S. population that the app has stored, and whose hands this data might fall into.
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Meta Attacks TikTok
Earlier this year, it was revealed that Facebook refused to make positive changes to their product – even though they knew their app had a negative effect on children. In late March, it was revealed that Meta was paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms to run this smear campaign on TikTok.
Read MoreThe Survival of Fast Fashion
Various fast fashion companies, such as SHEIN and Fashion Nova, continue to thrive within the younger generations. People are advertising these brands all over social media, specifically famous people.
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Is Thrift Shopping Unethical?
Along with the trending hobby of thrift shopping, social media savvy fashionistas popularized haul videos featuring the amount of clothing they find at such low prices – and many of those videos racking up millions of views. While this helps the environment by buying second hand and not falling into fast fashion, clothing resale can also negatively challenge those that are looking for clothing at a low price.
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Coach is Back to Stay
Coach is back and ready to dominate the handbag industry. The famous leather handbag brand fell out of style as the trends of the early 2000s began to die, but now that there is a revival of Y2K fashion, Coach has completely rebranded itself to fit into the wants and needs of 2021 fashion.
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