TikTok, an online entertainment platform says it has prioritised online safety through partnership on Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV), particularly for women in the media industry. Duduzile Mkhize, TikTok Outreach and Partnerships Manager, Sub-Saharan Africa, TikTok, said this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). The official spoke …
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TikTok on Tuesday said the platform should not be seen as a social media network but rather as a content growth platform driven by high-quality content. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that TikTok is a short-form video platform where users create and share videos ranging from a few …
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A magistrate court in Kano has sentenced popular TikTok content creator Abubakar Usman, known as Kilina, to one year in a correctional facility for charges related to cross-dressing and promoting indecent content. The verdict was delivered by Magistrate Hadiza Muhammad Hassan of Court No. 21, who also granted Kilina the …
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A Federal High Court in Kaduna has sentenced social media content creator Muhammad Kabir to six months in prison for defacing Nigerian currency in a viral video. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in a statement on Thursday, confirmed Kabir’s arrest on May 13, 2025, in the Tudun Wada …
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UNITED States President Donald Trump has extended the deadline for TikTok to find a non-Chinese buyer or face a ban in the US. Trump gave TikTok 75 more days to find a buyer.. “My Administration has been working very hard on a deal to save TikTok, and we have made …
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Venezuela’s highest court on Monday fined TikTok $10 million in connection with viral challenges that authorities say left three adolescents dead from intoxication by chemical substances. Gatekeepers News reports that Supreme Tribunal of Justice Judge Tania D’Amelio said that the popular video-sharing app had been negligent in failing to implement …
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TikTok faces new lawsuits filed by 13 U.S. states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday, accusing the popular social media platform of harming and failing to protect young people. The lawsuits filed separately in New York, California, the District of Columbia and 11 other states, expand Chinese-owned TikTok’s legal …
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Cameroon authorities have detained a social media activist who posted videos on TikTok advocating for democratic change ahead of the 2025 presidential elections, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported, calling for his immediate release. Junior Ngombe, a 23-year-old hairdresser and social media activist, was apprehended by three plainclothes men claiming to …
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A European Commission spokesman on Tuesday confirmed it received a reply from TikTok to provide within 24 hours an assessment of mental health risks related to its new app, TikTok Lite. According to officials, Monday’s legally-binding order concerning the new app’s rewards scheme, which allows users to collect points by …
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THE United States House of Representatives will vote Wednesday on a bill that would force TikTok to cut ties with its Chinese owner or get banned in the United States. The legislation is the biggest threat yet to the video-sharing app, which has surged to huge popularity across the world …
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