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Social media

02.January 2025 MS

Banning TikTok in Albania: Will it be the case in the US?

After a boy died due to an argument on TikTok in Albania, the authorities held about 1.300 meetings with teachers and parents and decided to ban the social network in 2025. Is this decision a good one and what will happen to TikTok in the US

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05.June 2024 Zoran Stanojević

Everyone laughs on TikTok until they get banned

Almost five million people immediately followed Donald Trump on TikTok. Joe Biden has been around for a long time, and he only has three hundred and fifty thousand followers. Although both of them in the presidential campaign promise to ban this platform, they are very active on it

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08.May 2024. Zoran Stanojević

Cutting WhatsApp and TikTok

The ban on TikTok in the US went through all the instances, in the end it was signed by President Biden, which made it enforceable, but with a nine-month deadline

Digital censorship

28.April 2024. IM / DW

Why do US and EU want to ban TikTok and consider it a dangerous app?

The United States is ordering the sale or ban of TikTok - amid claims that data is falling into the hands of Chinese authorities. The European Union, on the other hand, takes care of the welfare of young people who are increasingly dependent on this network. What exactly is it about?

How likely is the sale of one of the most successful social networks?

TikTok

21.march 2024 Timothy Rooks (DW)

Pressure in the US: Who could buy TikTok?

For the US government, TikTok is a news and information platform that can also be used for propaganda. However, how likely is the sale of one of the most successful social networks with a billion users in 140 countries

Social media

21.February 2024. DW

TikTok under attack from the European Union

After TikTok's announcement, which was not satisfactory, the EU Commissioner for Industrial Policy, Thierry Breton, announced on the X platform that formal proceedings will be initiated against this Chinese company due to the European Commission's suspicion that it does not comply with the EU Digital Services Act.

Side effects

31.January 2024 Teofil Pančić

Shut up and swim on

Of everything anyone has ever said or written about him, one of the wealthiest men in this country has no better business than to bitterly deny what is neither illegal nor morally suspect.

Progressives on Tiktok

23.November 2023 Jovana Gligorijevic

Desperate move, or maybe they know what they're doing

The idea that the progressives flocked to Tiktok in order to push young people into abstinence with their own unsympathetic appearance does not sound preposterous at all. But it is not unreasonable that they are ready to, out of desperation, make a complete circus out of themselves, just to keep the rating

Social networks and challenges

13.September 2023 Damjan Martić

Trending with consequences

Uroš Panić, the son of Vučić's godfather with a criminal past, Petar Panić, mostly broadcasts his regular rampages through the streets of Belgrade in a car on social networks. Whatever people think, his "boldness" was accompanied by applause from numerous followers - mostly teenagers - on social networks. Isn't that, in a way, the launch of a challenge that others will follow

Chronicle

10.September 2023 AE

'Deodorant Challenge' on TikTok: Led to the deaths of two teenagers

In the latest TikTok challenge, kids inhale deodorant and spray it on their skin - for as long as possible until it "really hurts". This is just one of the many deadly challenges on the social network that expects users to recognize for themselves what is harmful to them.