The Chinese Communist Party published a national AI gameplan that specifies blurring the lines between the civil and military to achieve Beijing’s global technological supremacy, author Wynton Hall details in his upcoming book, Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI (HarperCollins).
The World Happiness Report published its annual study of “global wellbeing” on Thursday, and found one of the greatest threats to that sense of health, happiness, and contentment is heavy social media usage. This was especially true among young people, particularly young girls.
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is building significant computing infrastructure using top-tier Nvidia processors in Southeast Asia as part of its strategy to compete globally in AI development. This is one technique China is using to get around U.S. AI export controls.
CODE RED author Wynton Hall tells the Daily Mail in an interview published Sunday that China has disguised its “data vacuum” AI espionage tools as popular apps like TikTok and DeepSeek. According to Hall, users of these “Trojan Horse” apps are “effectively surrendering their privacy and security to the Chinese regime.”
A viral TikTok trend features self-proclaimed “young hoes” sharing videos of themselves showing off the shortcuts they take when engaging in everyday tasks — suggesting that members of Generation Z don’t have time for anything. As one conservative commentator pointed out, “To use that word — it’s like, ‘I’m dumb, I’m young, I don’t know how to get through life.'”
As missile exchanges intensified across the Middle East and commercial flights were halted amid Operation Epic Fury, Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz found himself stranded in the Gulf region, where he coordinated with U.S. and regional officials to evacuate a group of Americans to safety.
A TikTok stunt that caused as 16-year-old boy to fall 50 feet and become trapped inside a shaft on the Queensboro Bridge has resulted in the arrest of two of his companions, who allegedly left him there to die.
The Central African nation of Gabon on Wednesday announced it was suspending some social media platforms for spreading “inappropriate, defamatory, hateful, and abusive” content that was allegedly threatening “social cohesion, the stability of the republic’s institutions, and national security.”
Instagram head Adam Mosseri testified in a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday that while “problematic” social media usage exists, he does not believe it constitutes clinical addiction.
The European Commission filed formal charges against TikTok on Friday, accusing the social media platform of breaching EU online content regulations through addictive design features and demanding changes to its app or facing potential fines up to six percent of parent company ByteDance’s global revenue.
A Florida nurse who was fired from Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital after wishing long-term birth complications on White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is no longer allowed to practice nursing in the state.
“Hacks” cast member Megan Stalter has announced that she has quit TikTok, saying she feels the platform has heavily censored posts about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) topics.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, China’s TikTok, and Google’s YouTube are set to face their first courtroom trial this week over allegations that their platforms have contributed to a youth mental health crisis through addictive design features.
China’s TikTok announced Thursday that it has finalized an agreement to spin off its American operations into a new joint venture, ending years of uncertainty over the platform’s future in the United States.
Snap, the parent company of social media platform Snapchat has reached a settlement agreement in a major social media addiction lawsuit, avoiding what would have been the first trial testing claims that tech platforms deliberately designed products to addict young users.
Australian Communications Minister Anika Wells said on Friday that some 4.7 million social media accounts have been shut down since her country’s ban on social media for children under 16 went into effect in December.
Five families from the UK are pursuing legal action against TikTok in a Delaware court, marking the first time British families have sued the social media company in American courts over the deaths of their children.
Team Trump social media accounts dominated the internet in 2025 with a total of 5.3 billion views across platforms and 13 million new followers.
The Chinese-owned TikTok has signed a deal to sell its U.S. business to three American investors so it can operate in the country free of Chinese influence.
A woman identified as an employee of Enloe Health, a health system in Chico, California, posted a video of herself harassing a Target worker for wearing a shirt in support of Turning Point USA founder and free speech martyr Charlie Kirk. Enloe Health responded to incident confirming the woman is their employee and stating it is “deeply concerned about the tenor of this post.” Well wishers have since raised more than $100,000 on behalf of the Target worker in the video.
The fate of TikTok’s U.S. operations remains uncertain as another deadline for the app’s sale approaches, leaving interested American investors in a state of limbo.
Australia’s ban on social media for children under 16 went into effect on Wednesday amid heavy resistance from the nation’s teenagers, ominous threats from regulators, and apprehension around the world.
The White House will launch a TikTok account on Thursday highlighting cabinet activity, Breitbart News has learned.
A New Mexico man has been sentenced to approximately 10 months in prison for threatening President Donald Trump’s life on social media, posting his threats to TikTok, X, and Facebook, which sparked a Secret Service and FBI investigation.
The White House TikTok page saw rapid growth during the Democrats’ government shutdown, gaining almost a million new followers and racking up 170 million views, Breitbart News has learned.
Rap superstar Nicki Minaj thanked President Donald Trump’s White House after the administration included a remixed version of her song in its latest TikTok post. “This is pretty incredible,” the award-winning singer said.
The Team Trump social media accounts, led by X Strategies and its co-founder Alex Bruesewitz, garnered nearly a billion views in October alone across platforms and smoked the official Democrat accounts on TikTok and Instagram.
Walmart is addressing online rumors that its stores will be shutting down as leftists threaten to loot over a pause in food stamps as the Democrat’s government shutdown continues.
Left-wing TikTokers are shamelessly promoting rioting and stealing as the pause of food stamps, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), looms due to the government shutdown.
The US and China have finalized a deal to transfer majority ownership of the American version of TikTok to new owners, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revealed on Sunday.
A father and his little boy in Riverside, California, are being praised for their act of kindness at a shopping center when no one was watching.
Researchers say they found that China’s TikTok “systematically boosts” content using in favor of Socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and against former NYC Mayor Andrew Cuomo (D) using its content algorithm. The team asserts that this goes beyond simple bias into a new area, “algorithmic steering.”
As TikTok’s U.S. business faces a potential sale to Oracle and a group of investors, concerns are growing about the future of the app’s powerful content-recommendation algorithm.
An illegal alien social media influencer who filmed and posted information and videos about ICE raids in California was deported to Colombia last week. Tatiana Mafla-Martinez, a Colombian national, was arrested in August over her previous conviction for Driving Under the Influence and illegal presence in the United States, according to ICE.
The new social media trend of sending friends and family members AI-generated images of strangers in their homes is causing panic and prompting law enforcement agencies across the United States to issue urgent warnings about potential criminal consequences.
A popular Korean TikTok influencer has been murdered, and the alleged killer is one of her most dedicated supporters, a man in his 50’s who had donated more than $70,000 to the social media starlet.
New York City has filed a lawsuit against major social media companies, accusing them of contributing to a youth mental health crisis through the design and operation of their platforms.
China’s TikTok actively pushes pornography and other sexual content on 13-year-old users, according to researchers who created fake accounts of young teens to see what the Chinese platform’s algorithm would suggest to them.
The Team Trump social media accounts, led by Alex Breusewitz and his firm X Strategies, drew nearly 1 billion views across platforms in September, continuing to outperform official Democratic Party accounts.
Sam Altman’s OpenAI is set to release a standalone app for its Sora 2 video generation AI model that will allow users to create and share AI-generated short videos in a format resembling TikTok.
