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TikTok is resuming services to its 170 million users hours before Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington on Monday.

The TikTok ban in the US has some UK content creators concerned about what it means for their income and futures with fears the UK could bring in a similar ban on the app.

TikTok has officially gone down for its U.S. users, with a message warning users who open the app that it isn’t currently available.

A balaclava-clad rapper who boasts about killing and is promoted by the BBC can today be unmasked as the murderer of schoolboy Jimmy Mizen.

A tattooist has been criticised after he gave a permanent tattoo to a nine-year-old girl in a video that went viral online.

The European Commission has opened an investigation against TikTok for facilitating interference in Romania’s 2024 presidential elections.

Social media company On The Tools found that 73% of the UK’s 2.1 million construction workers have been affected by mental illness. In the last decade 7,000 have taken their own lives.

Researchers say parent company Meta is failing to remove explicit images on the social media site

Bill passes amid warning that process has been rushed and that a ban could push teenagers towards the dark web or into isolation

Social network says it must give permission for accounts to be sold or transferred after sale of rightwing InfoWars

Facebook and Instagram owner Meta is to introduce facial recognition technology to try and crack down on scammers who fraudulently use celebrities in adverts.

The problems with Reddit began at around 5am, according to website disruption tracker Down Detector, and its website had shown a blank page with an error message

The assistant, which has sparked privacy concerns, can also be accessed on £299 Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses

TikTok star Taylor Rousseau Grigg has died aged 25.

Co-operative Bank’s mobile app and online banking are down, driving customers to vent frustration on social media.

X owner responds by saying people should avoid UK when ‘they’re releasing convicted pedophiles’

Nearly 550,000 individuals have shared a fraudulent Instagram story claiming that if they don’t post it, Meta will ’use their information.’ This statement is misleading and part of a broader scam aiming to exploit user fears about data privacy.

The massively popular video app follows Meta’s recent move and pulls down accounts associated with the Russian state.

After the arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram’s administrators began providing French authorities with data that helped identify suspects in cases involving crimes against children.

Pavel Durov will probably use French legal disputes to position himself as a champion of free speech, say observers

Social media platform to be blocked by ISPs because it did not appoint legal representative in allotted time

Russian-born billionaire said to have ‘miscalculated’ by visiting France during inquiry into crime on his platform

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Residents of a Caracas neighbourhood who found their homes marked with a black "X" last week believe that regime loyalists are behind the overnight operation intended to indicate where opposition supporters live.