A hoax clip of a “corpse” coming to life in a morgue has TikTokers convinced that there’s a zombie outbreak in China. Source: https://www.distractify.com/p/zombies-in-china-hoax-tiktok
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EXCLUSIVE: Leaked documents reveal TikTok’s online and IRL efforts to keep employees from talking about ties to China
Leaked documents from within TikTok give insight into both the real-world and digital messaging of the company, as it faced pressure for its ties to its parent company ByteDance. Both on social media and in real life, TikTok employees were taught to deflect and downplay any comments about its parent company to maintain a positive …
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Congressional Republicans demand TikTok turn over documents about user data being accessed in China
Republicans in Congres requested documents from TikTok, alleging the social media company allows Chinese employees access to private US user data, according to a post from FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr. In a letter sent to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew—and shared on Twitter by Carr, who has long demanded TikTok be investigated—the ranking members of …
Congress calls on FTC to investigate TikTok over reports China accessed user data
Lawmakers are calling on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate TikTok following reports that U.S. user data was accessed in China. In an open letter this week, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) and Vice Chairman Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) urged FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan to open a formal investigation after …
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An FCC Commissioner Wants TikTok Removed From App Stores After BuzzFeed News Found American User Data Was Repeatedly Accessed In China
Earlier this month, BuzzFeed News published a report after accessing leaked audio from more than 80 internal TikTok meetings that contained 14 statements from nine different TikTok employees showing that the company’s engineers in Beijing had accessed data of American TikTok users between September 2021 and January 2022. This leaked audio significantly corroborated previous reporting …
US TikTok User Data Has Been Repeatedly Accessed From China, Leaked Audio Shows
Erik Carter for BuzzFeed News For years, TikTok has responded to data privacy concerns by promising that information gathered about users in the United States is stored in the United States, rather than China, where ByteDance, the video platform’s parent company, is located. But according to leaked audio from more than 80 internal TikTok meetings, …
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Trump Reportedly Asked Flabbergasted Staffers If China Had What Could Be Described As ‘Hurricane Guns’
Getty Image There were many things that Donald Trump is creatively bad at doing. Running a social media service is one. Recommending treatments for highly transmissible viruses is another. But there was one subject that inspired some of his most surreal behavior: hurricanes. In 2019, he appeared to have used a Sharpie to doctor a …
FCC commissioner calls out Apple for censoring Voice of America app in China
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr is calling out Apple over the company’s censorship in China, according to a letter he posted to Twitter. Carr—in a letter addressed to Apple CEO Tim Cook—is specifically upset over Apple blocking the Voice of America app in China on the Apple App Store, calling the censoring “deeply troubling.” Carr, in …
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‘Hasn’t the rest of the world kind of given up?’: TikToker documents COVID lockdown in China
A viral TikToker is documenting what life looks like in Shanghai, China, amid its recent COVID-19 lockdown. The TikToker, Chaniece (@thisischaniece), has about 82,000 followers on the platform and has been posting a series of “lockdown updates.” Starting in March, China has undergone its biggest COVID wave yet, CNN reports. Shanghai’s 25 million residents are …
Keanu Reeves’ Support Of Tibet Has Led To His Films Being Removed From Streaming Services In China
Getty Image In January, it was announced that Keanu Reeves had joined the lineup for this year’s Tibet House U.S. Benefit Concert, alongside Phish’s Trey Anastasio, Cyndi Lauper, and Patti Smith, among others. This led to Chinese nationalists threatening to boycott The Matrix Resurrections — even though it had already been released in the country …
Jimmy Kimmel Can’t Get Over QAnon Cultists Thinking Donald Trump Is Smart Enough To Speak In Code When He Talks About China
Followers of QAnon and totally bonkers conspiracy theories go together like peanut butter and jelly, or Putin and Trump. But Jimmy Kimmel is kind of aghast that even a group of cultists who thought JFK Jr. was all set to reemerge at a Rolling Stones concert believe that Donald Trump has the smarts to have …