#tiktok

#tiktok

When we launched Regulator two months ago, the premise was that I'd write about the collision between Big Tech and Big Government. The key word was collision. Tech and politics no longer existed as separate planets that would occasionally cross paths - they were now crashing into each other in very messy and dramatic ways. The plan was to write a column about one subject a week that talked about a recent tech / politics collision.

"My daughter is out of town, so I'm taking my son-in-law to do 'old lady white people s---,' Harris said in one of her viral videos in which the dynamic duo visit a farm petting zoo and do goat yoga. It has over 7 million views. So Harris and Cruz decided to keep the adventures rolling. "I had no idea it was going to go viral, but that's exactly what happened," Harris tells TODAY.com. "It blew me away, how people really just wanted some wholesome content."

Reports silently leaked on TikTok over the weekend, beginning with the September 25th show in Dallas at - and we wish we were making this up - The Bomb Factory. "Whoever was shitting their pants at the HAIM concert pls see yourself out," one person posted. The comments were full of confirmations, including, "Were you guys stage right?! That's where we were and it was awfullll," and "STAGE RIGHT IT WAS SO BAD," as well as clues to a deeper mystery.

If you spent the week doomscrolling #RaptureTok and wondering whether to leave your houseplants a goodbye note, good news: the end times did not arrive on Tuesday. What did show up, however, were a bunch of very earthly headlines. One very famous network host is back (though not on every station-because why make anything simple in 2025?). Housing kept playing hot-and-cold depending on your ZIP code, retail nostalgia made a crafty comeback, and beverage brands learned that promising better guts requires better evidence.

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He created a video of the moment in an unnamed restaurant which, on the face of it, looks entirely unremarkable. Yet, look a little closer, and the young man is clearly struggling, crying quietly to himself as he eats.

Set to a Kanye song remixed with a track by Nemzzz, a "cool aunt" video (sometimes called "Plan B") typically opens with a list that reads something like: "Plan A: married by 25, homeowner by 27, kids by 30." But when the beat drops, so do a slew of clips of all the amazing things the creator has done with her life instead of hitting those conventional benchmarks.

"I've seen a lot of TikToks from older generations sharing their disapproval of the types of dresses they see high school girls wearing for their homecoming dances," she said. "It does crack me up that for some reason, as we get older, I think that people have a tendency of forgetting that they were once them."

Throughout this five-month program, TikTok will support these creators with training, resources, and IRL opportunities to amplify their impact as they meet each other at global events, learn from a community of their peers, and connect with leaders at the forefront of social change.

TikTok's efforts to stop children using the app and protect their personal data have been inadequate, a Canadian investigation has found. Hundreds of thousands of children in the country use TikTok each year despite the firm saying it is not intended for people under the age of 13, according to the findings. The investigation also found TikTok had collected sensitive personal information from "a large number" of Canadian children and used it for online marketing and content targeting.

Shou Zi Chew may be the CEO of Mark Zuckerberg's biggest competitor, TikTok, but at the start of his career, he worked for Zuckerberg as an intern at Facebook. The Singapore native earned an economics degree from University College London before getting his MBA at Harvard Business School, where during the summer he interned at an up-and-coming company: "It was called Facebook," Chew told Harvard's Business School alumni website.

So imagine my relief when I opened TikTok on Saturday and learned that it'll all be over soon. Personally, I always imagined the end of the world would be caused by an asteroid, or maybe a nuclear "oopsie" from one of our dumb leaders. But no! According to the Christians on TikTok, the end of the world is Tuesday, September 23. I guess Taylor Swift's team didn't get the memo in time.

I hate to tell you this, Trump told Doocy. But a man named Lachlan is involved. You know, Lachlan that's a very unusual name Lachlan Murdochand Rupert is probably going to be in the group. I think they're going to be in the group. In addition to the Murdochs, Trump also said Larry Ellison and Michael Dell will be involved with the deal.