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Malaysia said Thursday it has ordered TikTok to explain and address what it described as the social media platform's failure to act swiftly against offensive, defamatory and fake content targeting the royal institution. The Communications and Multimedia Commission said the move followed the circulation of "grossly offensive, false, menacing and insulting" content, including AI-generated videos and manipulated images linked to an account falsely claiming association with king Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar.

Three major social media platforms paid an undisclosed price last Friday rather than let a Kentucky jury hear evidence about their internal design decisions. Alphabet's YouTube, Snap, and TikTok settled the first school district addiction lawsuit set to go to trial, filing agreements in federal court in Oakland, California, on May 15, 2026. The settlements leave Meta Platforms as the sole defendant heading to a June 15 trial in the case brought by Breathitt County School District, a rural district in eastern Kentucky, designated by the court as the bellwether for more than 1,200 similar lawsuits filed by school districts across the United States.

Since its release in early March, the song has soundtracked nearly 150,000 videos on the platform. For Nimino, that doesn't just mean more exposure for his music. It means money. A lot of the sports-world accounts that have used his track are businesses-Atlético de Madrid, the "Men in Blazers" podcast, Major League Baseball, the LPGA, and the Philadelphia Eagles-that accessed the song via TikTok's growing Commercial Music Library (CML), which ensures artists are paid when their music is used commercially.

TikTok is finally bringing its long-rumoured ad-free subscription to the UK, giving users the option to pay for a cleaner version of the app without personalised advertising. The new plan will cost £3.99 per month and is set to roll out to UK users aged over 18 "over the coming months." In exchange, TikTok says subscribers will see ads removed from their feed, and they will no longer have their data used for unspecified "advertising purposes."

The proposed agreement would resolve a 2024 lawsuit, started by former President Joe Biden's administration, accusing TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, of carrying out massive-scale invasions of children's privacy by allegedly collecting data from users under the age of 13 without parental consent. ABC, citing sources familiar with the discussions, reported that TikTok would pay roughly $400 million under the deal, though the settlement still requires approval from the company's board and is not expected to include an admission of wrongdoing.

“Store checks in China today don't make a lot of sense, because there are not that many people shopping in the stores,” the consumer goods group's CEO explains.

Amaury Guichon has been making stunning chocolate creations for years, with details so intricate that the final products genuinely look like they're not chocolate at all.

"I'm always craving to feel things a bit more than I do the rest of the year," Maudsley says about Columbine's anniversary, and that's why she decided to share the contents of her backpack with her modest online following.

Joe Macken revealed to his daughter that he'd made significant progress on his miniature scale model of New York City, a robust project to which he'd devoted the previous two decades. The handmade model is now housed at the Museum of the City of New York in an ongoing exhibition entitled He Built This City: Joe Macken's Model, located in the Museum's Dinan Miller Gallery.

TikTok's 2026 algorithm scans each frame, favours clips that keep viewers watching, and pushes down posts that feel low effort. When an AI editor trims silence, snaps cuts to the beat, and adds captions in seconds, you gain that retention-boosting polish without spending hours in Premiere.

Grindr has a distinctive notification ping that most gay men would probably recognize. But do others realize what it is?

"So many people don't realize babies grow into adults," one person wrote in the comments.