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    • Thursday, 18 August, 2022
      John Thornhill
      TikTok’s extraordinary rise signals a more multipolar internet

      Despite criticism as either too trivial or too threatening, the Chinese-owned platform has ‘out-blitzscaled the blitzscalers’ of Silicon Valley

    • Friday, 12 August, 2022
      TikTok employees complain of ‘kill list’ aimed at forcing out London staff

      Accusations reflect apparent clash of working cultures between UK ecommerce team and Chinese parent ByteDance

    • Thursday, 11 August, 2022
      The Big Read
      Social media’s big bet: the shopping revolution will be livestreamed

      Internet platforms including TikTok, YouTube and Amazon say the future of retail is live ecommerce, but early experiments in the UK and the US suggest there’s still a long way to go

    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
      FT Magazine
      Welcome to the real farmers of TikTok

      UK farming has an image problem, but a generation of young farmers is showing a different side to the job

    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      UK parliament closes TikTok account a week after launch

      Move comes after MPs and peers hit by sanctions from China raised concerns that Beijing used social media app as spyware

    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
      Nilanjana Roy
      How to regain the habit of deep reading

      We are shaped by a lifetime of books read for pleasure, so what happens if we become skimmers?

    • Monday, 25 July, 2022
      OutlookHannah Murphy
      Ever younger ‘kidfluencers’ face online dangers

      Thrust into stardom as young as five or six, can they understand the world they’re in?

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      News in-depth
      TikTok urged to preserve Ukraine content for war crime investigations

      The Chinese-owned video app is a trove of digital intelligence that lawyers are attempting to mine and archive

    • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
      TikTok abandons ecommerce expansion in Europe and US

      Chinese-owned social media platform’s foray into livestream shopping in the UK has struggled to gain traction

    • Friday, 1 July, 2022
      TikTok says it is working to ‘safeguard’ US data and national security

      Popular ByteDance-owned app seeks to allay lawmakers’ concerns about China’s access to sensitive information

    • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
      Working It
      The rise of the ‘slow work’ movement

      Plus, how to beat imposter syndrome and the best new business books

    • Friday, 17 June, 2022
      Influencers abandon TikTok Shop in latest blow to UK ecommerce venture

      Content creators say ‘livestream’ model means they earn less and now take flak for limited stock and shipping issues

    • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
      TikTok executive to ‘step back’ following FT probe into aggressive work culture

      Joshua Ma will ‘take some time off’ after claims were brought to TikTok by the Financial Times

    • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
      TikTok Shop’s troubled UK expansion: staff exodus and culture clash

      Chinese-owned social media group launches investigation into ‘toxic’ working practices at London offices

    • Thursday, 2 June, 2022
      Frederick Studemann
      Is BookTok set to revolutionise the publishing industry?

      TikTok clips seem an odd fit with the literary world. But publishers mindful of their bottom line would do well not to sniff at it

    • Sunday, 15 May, 2022
      Entrepreneurship
      Spreadsheets are now cool, thanks to TikTok

      Social media influencers show millions how to improve their Excel skills, as part of a trend for ‘micro learning’

    • Friday, 13 May, 2022
      Jo Ellison
      Johnny Depp and the guilty scroll

      The actor’s libel trial is grim, depressing and debasing. I can’t tear my eyes away

    • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
      Meta Platforms
      Meta: Facebook pivots from metaverse to TikTok Premium content

      Shifting to short videos might help it deal with market saturation

    • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
      ByteDance
      Skadden loses top lawyer to ByteDance amid China IPO chill

      Julie Gao will become chief financial officer at TikTok owner

    • Friday, 15 April, 2022
      Social Media
      TikTok under US government investigation on child sexual abuse material

      Short-video app with young user base accused of being ‘perfect place for predators’ by Homeland Security

    • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
      Hannah Murphy
      Self-diagnosis ads on TikTok blur mental health fears with reality

      Social media platforms must police both medical advertising and user-generated content more carefully

    • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
      Lex
      TikTok: never-ending scroll and young audience boost advertising gains  Premium content

      ByteDance-owned app is growing more quickly than any US social network

    • Sunday, 13 March, 2022
      Elaine Moore
      The truth about ‘shadowbanning’ is more complicated than influencers think

      Algorithms that reward engagement are just as likely to leave unpopular content out in the cold

    • Saturday, 12 March, 2022
      Jo Ellison
      TikTok and the human face of war

      For all its ills, social media can be a tremendous source of solace in turbulent times

    • Monday, 7 March, 2022
      News in-depth
      TikTok becomes information battleground in Ukraine

      Warfare accentuates the video app’s struggle to police false and misleading information

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