How to Get Around the US TikTok Ban

“Even VPNs do not lead to circumvention” in India, Gosain told WIRED. In the early hours of the US ban, ...
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It’s Not Just TikTok: These Other ByteDance Apps Are Gone Too

TikTok is no longer available in the United States—at least for now. But it’s not the only ByteDance-owned app that’s ...
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Want to Smell Like Donuts? Beauty Brands Think You Do

But in 2023, we moved from food-inspired aesthetics to actually wanting to look like food, with trends like cinnamon cookie ...
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TikTok Can Be Banned, US Supreme Court Rules

The US Supreme Court upheld a law that could ban TikTok this Sunday in a new opinion released on Friday. ...
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Mark Zuckerberg Turns His Back on the Media

There was a time when Mark Zuckerberg didn’t regard mainstream media as the enemy. He even allowed me, a card-carrying ...
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How to Download Your TikTok Videos

Next, an array of sharing options pop up. You can choose the email option to send the file to yourself ...
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Xiaohongshu Scrambles to Hire English-Speaking Content Moderators

The Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu—better known internationally as RedNote—is scrambling to boost its ability to moderate English-language content after ...
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TikTok Hadn’t Even Been Banned Before the Backlash Started

At least as of this writing, we’re still awaiting a decision from the Supreme Court on TikTok’s future, but the ...
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How Much Are Donald Trump’s Truth Social Shares Worth?

Over the decades, Donald Trump’s literal fortunes have ebbed and flowed. (Six of his hotels and companies, remember, have filed ...
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Not Many Meta Employees Will Have to Move to Texas After All

Whether shifting teams to Texas will be anything more than symbolic is unclear. Common sense suggests if a person in ...
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