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Dr. Kimberley Nix, who chronicled her three-year battle with metastatic sarcoma on TikTok and Instagram, died on Wednesday, May 8 at age 31. The Calgary, Alberta resident began documenting her cancer journey on Instagram and TikTok in 2021. Dr. Nix was just 28 years old at the time, and in her…

Hugely popular social media platform TikTok and its Chinese parent ByteDance sued the U.S. government after a recent law passed by Congress and signed by President Biden just weeks ago that gives the company about nine months to sell TikTok or face a ban in U.S. app stores. TikTok says the new law…

Raven-Symoné is defending her wife, Miranda Pearman-Maday, following a social media backlash that involves internet trolls making death threats. In a video shared on social media, the That’s So Raven star is seen with her wife calling out social media users leaving horrible comments. “I'm here…

UPDATED with exec comments. Blake Chandlee, President, Global Business Solutions at ByteDance / TikTok, kicked off the company’s NewFronts presentation in New York with a thank-you to advertisers and push-back against government critics. “I want you to know, we are not backing down,” he said. He…

Universal Music Group and TikTok have announced a new "multi-dimensional" licensing agreement that will return music from UMG’s family of artists, songwriters and labels to the short video platform. Earlier this year, Universal Music pulled its songs from TikTok, citing financial terms and concerns…

Meta (formerly called Facebook) pretty much ignored the social media elephant in the room today on a post-earnings conference call, with chief financial officer Susan Li saying it's too early to discuss what just happened in Washington, D.C. President Biden has signed into law a bill that would force TikTo…

Facebook parent Meta posted solid quarterly financials today with revenue and EPS beating Wall Street expectations, but investors dinged the stock on high expenses and lower than anticipated revenue for the current quarter. Shares are down 10% in after-market trading. What Meta calls “Family daily…

UPDATE: President Joe Biden signed a massive national security bill that requires that ByteDance divest TikTok or face a ban on app stores as soon as nine months from now. Biden gave remarks after signing the bill, highlighting the $95 billion outlay for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. He did not…

Drew Afualo and her Two Idiot Girls podcast co-host, Deison Afualo, are embarking on a summer comedy tour. The Loud Tour will travel across the U.S. and make stops in 21 cities, supporting her first book, Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve. “We are coming to 21 cities, across the…

FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel finds it shocking that U.S. law prevents foreign ownership of old media assets but has nothing to say about new media — including wildly popular TikTok, which is owned by a Chinese company. A bill passed by the House last month that would require parent ByteDance to divest Tik…

Kyle Marisa Roth, a TikTok creator known for reading blind items from the entertainment world, has died at the age of 36, according to her family. “This is not a platform for personal life shares but so many of my connections on this platform go back years and I have a devastating loss to share,"…

Amid the ongoing dispute between TikTok and Universal Music Group, some music from that label’s biggest artist, Taylor Swift, has reappeared on the social media platform. Universal Music pulled its songs from TikTok earlier this year, citing financial terms and concerns about inadequate restrictions…