Instagram is rolling out “Your Algorithm” to the main feed, letting users see and adjust what the platform thinks they’re interested in. Mosseri credits TikTok with pioneering the recommendation model ...

Sydney Sweeney is drawing attention for yet another bizarre scene in “Euphoria.” During Sunday’s episode, Sweeney’s character, Cassie, appeared nude with a yellow python wrapped around her body for a ...

One week after Spirit Airlines shut down operations, a new campaign to save the budget carrier has gained traction online, with more than $335 million in pledges. TikTok creator Hunter Peterson posted ...

A 10-year-old UK girl named Bella had to be hospitalized after a TikTok squishy toy stunt literally blew up in her face, leaving her with “traumatizing” burns. It looked like she’d been whacked in the ...

When anthropology researcher Ashley McDermott was doing fieldwork in Kyrgyzstan a few years ago, she says many people voiced the same concern: Children were losing touch with their indigenous language ...

When you spend too much time on TikTok, there are a few tells: the hours that slip by on the couch when you told yourself you’d only take a short break; baldly telling someone you read an article ...

An American woman, Lynette Hooker, is missing in the Bahamas after reportedly falling from a small boat. Her husband reported she fell overboard in rough waters while holding the boat key, causing the ...

Even though relations between China and America remain tense, many young Americans’ perspectives seem to be shifting as they adopt Chinese cultural habits. The online trend, dubbed Chinamaxxing, has ...

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The Trump administration is set to receive a roughly $10 billion fee from investors in the recently completed deal to take control of TikTok’s U.S. business, delivering it a windfall for keeping the ...

TikTok users in several major U.S. cities reported what appeared to be an outage starting Tuesday afternoon. According to DownDetector, reports of outages started climbing just before 1 p.m. The ...

The McMenamin brothers are known in the Pacific Northwest for reclaiming historic buildings and transforming them into fun places like bars, movie theaters, music venues and golf courses. Their east ...