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Facebook’s TikTok (that sounds wrong) was spotted a couple of days ago by social media consultant Matt Navarra. I hope their first tiktok is a watermarked Reel — Matt Navarra (I quit X. Follow ...
TikTok is purportedly building a new version of its platform for users in the United States ahead of a planned sale to a ...
Meta Platforms (META) and Google (GOOGL) have effectively built new moats, with TikTok still fighting to stay alive. What if ...
The popular right-wing social media account “Libs of Tiktok” has been suspended by Facebook for violating the website’s community standards. “The page Libs of TikTok has been disabled for ...
Facebook has been plotting TikTok’s takeover since 2018. Facebook made its first attempt to kill TikTok in 2018 after it hit 650 million users.
TikTok faced a 14-hour blackout in the US on January 19, during which users were unable to access the app. When TikTok resurfaced, users noticed the presence of Facebook’s profile on the platform.
Zuckerberg has insisted a major part of his TikTok defense strategy is Reels, the TikTok clone—ahem, short-form video format—introduced on Instagram and Facebook and launched in August 2020.
Facebook and TikTok failed to block advertisements with “blatant” misinformation about when and how to vote in the US midterms, as well as about the integrity of the voting process, according ...
Facebook used to buy up competitors or replicate their success. Now a Washington Post report has revealed Meta is using a consulting firm to launch a media smear campaign against TikTok as it ...
How Facebook Tried to Ratfuck TikTok. Taylor Lorenz talks to "Don't Let This Flop" about how the Big Tech behemoth tried to drum up "moral panic" around mega-popular app. By Ej Dickson.
(This week Facebook introduced a TikTok clone for its Instagram app called Reels.) In an April 2020 blog post, Tik Tok said it was doing everything it could to keep the U.S. data out of Chinese hands.