J.P. Morgan is quietly building financial tools for ByteDance products like TikTok, expanding China’s grip on the high stakes payments space.| Forbes
The ban came as part of the 4,126-page spending bill and follows several state government bans of the app.| NBC News
Internal TikTok documents reveal the company is promoting addictive design and targeting children, in full consciousness of the harms of its product| 5rights
The Scale AI cofounder’s second startup Passes banned creators under 18 ahead of being sued for allegedly hosting child sexual abuse material, which Guo has denied.| Forbes
Some of the ads include descriptions of sexual violence, paired with images of battered women and photos of male fitness influencers, which were used without permission.| Forbes
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has launched a Meta-backed platform to help kids and teens get naked or sexual content of themselves removed from social media.| Forbes
Private accounts on TikTok have become portals to some of the most dangerous and disturbing content on the internet.| Forbes
Apple spent years trying to design a system to stop the spread of child sexual abuse material on iPhones and iCloud. When the company scrapped it, child protection investigators were frustrated. But Apple’s privacy-first approach gained plenty of fans in the process.| Forbes
Utah’s governor and attorney general announced a lawsuit against TikTok, alleging youth are pushed to perform sexually suggestive acts for gifts and money on TikTok Live.| Forbes
Images of AI children on TikTok and Instagram are becoming magnets for many with a sexual interest in minors. But content of fake people falls into a troubling gray area.| Forbes
As text-to-image generators become easy to build, use and customize, AI-generated porn communities are burgeoning on Reddit. But these synthetic sexual photos are built on non-consensual images of real people, experts say.| Forbes