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Steven Mnuchin, the former treasury secretary and film financier, says that he’s getting an investor group together to try to buy TikTok. His comments to CNBC follow the House of Representatives’ overwhelming passage of a bill that would force TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the…

House lawmakers overwhelmingly passed legislation today that would force the parent company of TikTok to divest the popular app or face a ban on U.S. platforms. The legislation passed 352-65, easily clearing the 2/3 threshold needed. The bill now goes to the Senate, where no timetable is set for…

Drew Afualo does not mess around when it comes to calling out misogynist men on TikTok and is now putting people on notice after she failed to receive an invite to audition for the live-action adaptation of Moana. The content creator is known to use humor on TikTok and shared a video where she made a…

Leah Smith, who documented her four-year battle with a rare form of cancer on TikTok, died today, according to posts by her mother and boyfriend on the site. She was 22. “I’m sad to say that she passed away today around half-eleven this morning," her boyfriend Andrew Moore said in a video posted to…

Joe Biden said that he would sign a bill that would force ByteDance to divest TikTok or face a ban of the popular app. “If they pass it, I’ll sign it,” Biden said. On Thursday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously passed a bill that would compel ByteDance, the Chinese parent…

UPDATE: The House Energy & Commerce Committee unanimously passed legislation to compel ByteDance to divest TikTok or face having the social media platform banned on app stores or web hosting services. The committee voted 50-O for the legislation, which now must be voted on by the full House. But…

TikTok would face a ban in the United States unless it severs ties to ByteDance, its parent company that has long face scrutiny and criticism for its connections to the Chinese government, under new legislation proposed by a bipartisan group of House lawmakers. The bill, introduced today, would…

UPDATE: Joe Biden had a one sentence reaction to the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl win. “Just like we drew it up,” along with a photo of “Dark Brandon.” The X/Twitter post was a reference to a Super Bowl conspiracy theory involving game-rigging and a Taylor Swift endorsement. The Chiefs…

Disney World’s Magic Kingdom has gone viral for honoring a ticket that was an "old family keepsake," said Matthew Ables, its owner. In a TikTok video that has been watched more than nine million times, Ables explains that the one-day pass — purchased in 1978 for $8 — had been "collecting dust" since…

Barring a last-minute deal, music from Taylor Swift and other Universal Music Group artists may disappear from TikTok. UMG said in an open letter that its negotiations for a renewed licensing agreement with the popular short video platform yielded no results and the license expires tonight.  UMG said…

UPDATE, 11:10 p.m. PT: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) wrapped up the hearing on child online exploitation by calling for passage of a series of bills that would place more liability on platforms for the proliferation of such content. The bills passed out of committee…