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What happened when a reporter learned she had been surveilled by the controversial social media company

Karlin Lillington: I’d like to think we’ve reached a moment of reconsideration where people will opt for an open web model with more freedom, less surveillance, and greater user control

Use of social media app restricted in several jurisdictions due to privacy concerns over firm’s close links to Chinese state

Decision comes less than eight months after social media platform’s head Adam Mosseri relocated to UK

Author of The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is says aspects of it are damaging us, as individuals and societies

Government media committee asked companies to attend next week to discuss future plans and long-term vision for the media sector

England’s data watchdog found that up to 1.4m children under 13 use TikTok app – and experts say they are being flooded with harmful content to promote addiction

Unthinkable: Evidence linking social media use to depression continues to mount but experts disagree on how best to respond

Censure from British watchdog comes amid global concerns over conduct of Chinese-owned social media app

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

Ownership of social media app puts it at centre of rising geopolitical alarm, but you wouldn’t always know it

In the News podcast with Bernice Harrison

Social media services are also required to block Utah minors from their accounts from 10.30pm to 6.30am

House committee makes it clear it does not accept firm’s promise to keep users and their data safe

The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle

App banned in UK on devices used by government employees due to privacy concerns over company’s links with Chinese state

Several European governments are either restricting the app for civil servants or ordering security assessments

Youth-focused social media platform has admitted allowing Chinese access to data and there are fears about the use of the data of minors

Chinese-owned social media app is facing pressure from governments worldwide

Donald Clarke: No semi-sane Irish person could watch these TikToks without risking extreme bile reflux

Programme will offer a refundable corporation tax of €8m for expenditures on qualifying projects

The European Commission and US senate already block the Chinese-owned social media app over concerns with data privacy

Children’s titles take up 19 of top 20, as Rooney’s latest novel is most borrowed adult title

Move comes as western governments express security concerns over use of Chinese-owned app

Experts had predicted flat growth for company

Human rights group Global Witness submitted 10 ads containing extreme and violent hate against the LGBTQ+ community

Chinese social media company’s plan at ‘advanced stage’ as it aims to expand its European data storage

Cushman & Wakefield initiates a targeted sale process for TikTok’s base in city’s south docklands

Emer McLysaght: Parents make a choice to publish images of their children – but they have no control over how strangers capture and use them

Teenage ambassadors for Safer Internet Day are educating classmates on the importance of empathy and respect online

Planet Business: The fate of the ‘Queen of the Skies’, plus UK vs Russian GDP forecasts, TikTok’s low-profile CEO, and a DC Universe reboot

Dan Calladine, head of media futures at dentsu International, identifies key trends in media and marketing that will have a big impact in Ireland and explains what brands can do to adapt

Mikayla Nogueira built a huge TikTok following for her product reviews. Now a dodgy lash threatens her standing. Shouldn’t we stop listening to influencers?

Relationships with major ad platforms can be reconfigured in wake of ‘real challenges’, says Aditya Kishore

Wellness rhetoric functions as a Trojan horse to smuggle in a more sinister agenda

Sometimes the best evangelism is telling people you’re Christian and then not being a complete jerk

Law firm is forecasting growth of 7-9 per cent in 2023 with a focus on expanding activity at international office locations

Video app is battling for larger share of digital ads market

Better focus on security and less focus on your phone will pay dividends for most people in terms of wellbeing

Authors have found huge audiences on the platform, and titles have enjoyed renewed interest because of the power of social sharing