Culture
NYT ripped for headline labeling Ayatollah Khamenei ‘hard-line cleric who made Iran a regional power’(Daily Caller News Foundation) – X users criticized The New York Times for its Saturday headline on Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death, which described him as a “hard-line… Read More
Culture
Big Tech’s killer apps: Grieving parents call out social media deaths(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Grieving parents and advocates gathered outside the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday morning for a vigil honoring their children, whom they say… Read More
Culture
Google, TikTok block ads for family-friendly Christian video gamesA Christian gaming company is asking Congress to review Google’s and TikTok’s advertising policies after the tech companies repeatedly rejected the firm’s family-friendly content ads, a move it says threatens… Read More
Culture
How Vance, Trump orchestrated deal to save TikTok(The Daily Signal) – The White House has finally produced a framework deal to save TikTok after Congress banned usage of the Chinese-owned app in the United States, a White… Read More
Government
TikTok faces an uncertain future as Trump administration halts ban(The Center Square) – TikTok went dark for the 170 million American users after the federal law mandating ByteDance, the platform’s parent company, to sell or face a nationwide ban was… Read More
Courts
Supreme Court hears TikTok case, leans toward upholding banThe Supreme Court heard oral arguments Friday in a case over a federal law that would effectively ban TikTok in the United States unless its Chinese parent company sells the… Read More
Courts
14 AGs sue TikTok, alleging the platform knowingly harms childrenAttorneys General from 13 states and the District of Columbia have filed separate lawsuits against the social media company TikTok over alleged harm to children. The lawsuits are part of… Read More
Josh Hawley
‘All of us are in danger’: Sen. Josh Hawley warns no family, no community in Missouri is protected from illegal immigrant crimeWhile other municipalities around the country were declaring themselves sanctuary cities to protect illegal immigrants from federal authorities, the O’Fallon, Missouri city council voted unanimously… Read More
Josh Hawley
TikTok spying on Americans while trying to ‘buy Congress’ to prevent national ban, Hawley allegesTikTok is little more than a “spy app” for the Chinese Communist Party and should be banned to protect Americans’ most intimate information, says Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley. Read More
Culture
Biden admin keeps softening TikTok stance as company’s influence campaign grows(Daily Caller News Foundation) – President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign announced that it had joined TikTok on Sunday, contradicting previous reports that it wouldn’t. Despite the… Read More
Culture
Does social media enable cheating in school?(The Center Square) – Earlier this year, Chalkboard News highlighted how students can cheat on online classes and assignments using social media platforms and other new tools. But do social… Read More
Culture
TikTok removes some videos, accounts that aid in student cheating(The Center Square) – Cheating is nothing new. But the methods of how it’s done are constantly changing. There is currently a market hidden in plain sight for the subset… Read More
Culture, Gender Identity
Lawmakers raise questions about Navy’s use of drag queen to recruit(The Center Square) – Republican lawmakers are asking questions about the Navy's decision to enlist an active-duty sailor and drag queen to recruit people through social media platforms such as… Read More
Biden administration
Department of Defense sanctioned video by Guardsman promoting China social media app TikTok, despite it being banned on federal devicesThe Department of Defense sanctioned and even helped write an Air National Guardsman’s endorsement of TikTok, despite the Chinese social media app being banned on federal devices, Sen. Read More
Big Tech, Congress
TikTok CEO’s defense of the ‘digital fentanyl’ app was ‘total disaster,’ says Missouri Senator Josh HawleyTikTok is “digital fentanyl” designed to “get into our kids’ heads,” and its CEO’s attempt to defend it in a congressional hearing Thursday was a “disaster,” says Missouri Sen. Read More
Congress
Nebulous answers from TikTok CEO rile congressional panel(The Center Square) – U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson and U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina are among those on Capitol Hill leading the charge against TikTok, with both on… Read More
Congress
Republicans, including Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, seek broader TikTok ban(The Center square) – A bill introduced by a pair of Republican lawmakers seeks a broader ban on the use of the social media platform TikTok in the U.S. Read More
Big Tech
Wyoming joins growing list of states prohibiting TikTok(The Center Square) – Wyoming is the latest state to prohibit the use of TikTok on state-issued devices. Republican Gov. Mark Gordon issued a memorandum to all state employees on… Read More
Social Media
Abbott instructs state agencies to ban TikTok on all government-issued devices(The Center Square) – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is taking action that he says will protect the cyber security of Texans from the Chinese owned video-sharing company TikTok. The TikTok… Read More