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TikTok is a short-form video social media app owned by China's ByteDance, widely used worldwide and facing scrutiny over data privacy and youth safety.
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Amsterdam residents have taken the city to court over its licence for Fabel Friet, a TikTok-famous chip shop that 19 neighbours formally protested. A ruling due 12 November will test whether a shop that meets its queue and litter rules can still lose its licence.
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Tokyo judge Aya Takahashi ruled that using a performer's voice without permission can infringe publicity rights, in Japan's first AI voice-clone case. Teams shipping synthetic narration there now have to judge whether a voice is being sold on who it sounds like.
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Runway launched Runway Ads, an ad loop publishing to Meta, Google and TikTok that Runway says lifted the company's weekly output from 77 to about 900 ads. The results come only from Runway's own campaigns, and its learning step runs on data from platforms building rival automation.
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Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says the UK's under-16 social media ban, due in March, is only a staging post toward a more interventionist state. Platforms preparing for that deadline are building for a first tranche, with more promised by the minister now in charge.
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RuntimeWire says a captured WIRED homepage session sent Pinterest 90 audience-segment events plus fields labelled email_sha256 and fingerprint. That traffic sits in request bodies, where a tally of outside domains cannot see it.
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IMDEA Networks researchers found six of nine AI chatbot web clients passing conversation titles, links, prompts or screenshots to third parties. With 80.8 percent of trackers still running after a reject-all click, containment depends on what staff type and share.
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Qustodio says Australian teens were back online at pre-ban levels within months of the under-16 social media ban, largely via false ages and VPNs. Meta's teen limits, New York City's classroom AI ban and any workplace AI rule written for company devices face the same test.
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TikTok will pay Alabama $100m and cap children's use at two hours a day to settle the state's addictive-design lawsuit. Meta agreed to comparable limits with the state in August, so both companies now owe Alabama time limits and night blocks for children.
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Meta and YouTube reinstated ads for Alex Gibney's 'Musk' on Saturday, a day after a report that four platforms had refused them. For marketers working near politics, YouTube's fix came through its review queue and Meta's came in reply to a reporter.
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Meta lost a second New Mexico consumer-protection jury trial this year, on findings the state's lawyer counts as 43.9 million violations worth up to $5,000 each. A judge sets the penalty next, and that same lawyer expects Meta's appeal to hold back any cash for four or five years.
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TikTok will pay Alabama at least $100m and cap teen use at two hours a day, copying limits Meta accepted in its settlement with US states. Clauses in the deal are built to draw other states and platforms onto the same terms.
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TikTok agreed to a $100 million settlement with Alabama that switches off the personalized For You feed for minors within 45 days. Its design terms give other state attorneys general a model to ask for in their own child-safety suits.
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TikTok will pay Alabama at least $100 million and limit underage users to two hours a day in its first state settlement over teen social media addiction. It could owe up to $300 million if the features don't ship, and the list resembles what Meta agreed to in settling with 47 states.
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Researchers searching #womenshealth from a new Instagram account found 39% of 472 posts selling a product or service. Only 7% cited scientific evidence, and because the account was new, the figures describe the first view a stranger gets from a search.
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A public view will count from the first frame across all formats. Payouts do not change, but every dashboard, deal and case study priced on public views now spans two different metrics.
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Reddit has started converting existing text posts into narrated video and audio. The original threads stay up, but a second, synthetic version now sits on top of them.
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Bloomberg found references to peer-to-peer transfers on TikTok Pay inside the US iPhone app. The interesting part is where they sit: DMs, not the storefront TikTok already outsources.
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Thirty features landed at once, but the tell is Clips: Patreon now accepts that audiences are assembled on TikTok and Reels, and is rebuilding discovery around that fact.
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A federal jury in Oakland is hearing that Meta built addictive products for children. After a $6m bellwether loss, retention design now sits in the same risk register as privacy.
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The DoJ split the payment, holding a quarter of it against the removal of a legacy consent decree, and credited TikTok's later fixes without discounting the bill for the earlier ones.
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