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Beijing pledges dialogue with U.S. on TikTok ownership resolution
China’s Commerce Ministry said it would work with Washington to resolve the fate of TikTok’s U.S. business, stopping short of endorsing a White House-backed plan to spin the app into a new company majority-owned by American investors. 
In a bid to compete with Twitter (recently rebranded to X) TikTok has launched a new feature enabling users to create and share text-based content.
:comet: The move comes just 20 days after Meta’s Threads was introduced as a rival to X.
Additional features like stickers, tags, hashtags, background colors, and draft saving are also available to enhance text-based content. The LoveChain: A Social Network Turning Content into NFTs
Social media platforms are no longer just places where people socialize. Users are increasingly trying to monetize their content and make money from their accounts. In this regard, Web3 networks are successfully competing with trending platforms like Instagram and TikTok. U.S. flags Chinese influence risk in TikTok algorithm deal
Representative John Moolenaar, chair of the House Select Committee on China, said on Thursday that a proposed plan to license TikTok’s core algorithm from its Chinese parent company ByteDance raises “serious concerns” about continued Chinese influence over the platform. 
Prominent Israeli journalists Miri Michaeli and Amit Segal have fashioned their own digital avatars for the ACT News channel on TikTok, thanks to artificial intelligence.
While the artificial voices of Michaeli and Segal exhibit some deviation from their real-life vocal tones and there are minor lip-sync discrepancies, audiences readily accept the news as genuine.
Initially focused on championing Israeli interests, the brains behind ACT News now plan to harness these AI-powered avatars to cover "uplifting events from around the world". 
Arden Jones will pay off your parking tickets
Arden Jones, a TikTok star and Atlantic Records artist, chose an unusual way to commemorate the second anniversary of his song Parallel Parking. He created a limited-edition NFT collection of the hit song, with all proceeds going to pay off strangers' parking tickets. 1 - 20 of 20 results