For college lecturer Tracy Burns, the upcoming academic year will be her first teaching a women in construction course to a class of students recruited via TikTok. Tracy has lobbied for years for a women-focused course at Glasgow Kelvin College - a way to allow her to bring together 30 years of construction industry experience with 17 years in teaching.

Ginny Lim told HuffPost she hopes she motivates others to call their representatives and demand they take action.

Anora director speaks to the BBC

TikTok is profiting from sexual livestreams performed by teens as young as 15, the BBC has been told. We spoke to three women in Kenya who said they began this activity as teenagers. They told us they used TikTok to openly advertise and negotiate payment for more explicit content that would be sent via other messaging platforms.

The U.K.’s data protection watchdog says that it's investigating how TikTok uses the personal information of teenagers to deliver content recommendations to them when they use the social media platform.

TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been at the center of controversy in the U.S. for four years now due to concerns about user data As TikTok's future remains uncertain, a number of prominent moguls and companies are competing for the opportunity to purchase the app.

CNN anchor Abby Phillips and Republican commentator Scott Jennings both tore into a viral TikTok in which several elected Democrats pretended to be video game characters in a "choose your fighter parody.

During Ramadan, Muslims observe suhoor, the pre-dawn meal eaten in preparation for a day of fasting. Cats join despite their sleepiness.

Social media platforms like TikTok have a way of making users feel like they’re never quite enough, between viral trends like morning shed routines and the quest for glass skin to beauty filters and AI-generated enhancements.