TikTok has announced the launch of its first-ever awards ceremony in the United States, the TikTok Awards 2025, scheduled for Thursday, December 18, at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. [Read More]
A fake video showing the "night sky on Mars" allegedly filmed by NASA's Curiosity Rover has fooled thousands on TikTok and even a couple of news websites. [Read More]
A woman's passport photo mishap has gone viral after she appeared "microwaved" in her official document photo.
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Instagram has introduced 'Reposts,' which allows users to reshare public content, including Reels and grid posts from creators, that will show up in a new profile tab or in their friends' recommendations. [Read More]
This photo may look like it only has two girls in it -- but there's actually a terrifying third face in this image.
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Social media users are convinced that this bizarre walk will guarantee that photographers capture the perfect candid shots.
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TikTok, Imgur, and Reddit are being investigated by a U.K. watchdog over whether its algorithms serve inappropriate or harmful content to children. [Read More]
Watch the short talking head video below. Granted, it is in French, and close inspection of it may raise suspicions but perhaps caught unaware it could well fool people into believing it is a real video and not AI-generated. [Read More]
A photographer has been sued for $2 million for throwing a bucket of urine at a TikTok-famous vintage photo booth that was set up next door to her home. [Read More]
An influencer is suing another influencer for copying her "aesthetic" in photos and videos on social media -- in a case that may upend how copyright protections work in the content creation industry. [Read More]
A mom vlogger was arrested for shoplifting after she allegedly posted a TikTok video featuring a haul of her stolen items.
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A photographer recreated his parents' honeymoon pictures from 30 years earlier by traveling to New York with them and going to the spots they visited in 1994. [Read More]
A photographer discovered a terrifying ghostly face of a woman in a window multiple times after taking photos of a prom couple outside a historic house in the U.S. [Read More]
TikTok mistakenly released a version of its AI video generator that let avatars recite Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and Osama bin Laden’s "Letter to America" on command. [Read More]
In a new study conducted by The Wall Street Journal and an academic researcher, Instagram's algorithm was found to have repeatedly recommended sexual videos to young teenage users -- some as young as 13 years old. [Read More]
During Monday's Cannes Lions International Festival for Creativity, Adobe and TikTok announced a new collaboration that would integrate the social media app's commercial music library into Adobe Express. [Read More]
Meta isn't done trying to compete with BeReal. The Instagram owner is reportedly working on a new feature similar to BeReal's casual selling point. [Read More]
TikTok claims it is the first social media platform to support the Content Credentials provenance system by automatically adding AI-generated labels to content it detects as synthetic. [Read More]
TikTok is reportedly working on a new stand-alone photo app called "TikTok Photos" in a platform that could potentially rival Instagram. [Read More]
A concert photographer narrowly missed a guitar being thrown at him on stage -- after a heavy metal musician mistook him for someone else. [Read More]
A video of a fitness influencer being mocked by a man for recording her workout has fuelled a debate on whether people should be allowed to film in the gym at all. [Read More]
A teen photographer shot a stunning series of stunning portraits of her friends on a 100-year-old camera.
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Meta's apps Instagram and Facebook are growing faster than TikTok for the first time in a while.
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Generation Z users on TikTok are complaining about the difficulties of using a digital camera -- instead of a smartphone -- for taking photos. [Read More]
New York officials are introducing two bills that would limit children’s access to “addictive” social media feeds and protect kids' mental health online by changing the way they are served content. [Read More]
Meta is reportedly planning to charge European Union (EU) users to access an ad-free version of Instagram or Facebook -- while TikTok is testing a monthly subscription service that eliminates ads. [Read More]
A photographer has gone viral calling a client on camera to try to get paid for an outstanding invoice.
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Pirated movies and television shows are reportedly being uploaded straight to TikTok in a sequence of short clips.
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Social media users have been debating which camera has the most satisfying shutter sound of them all.
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A photographer developed the images on a used disposable camera that she bought at a thrift store and then managed to track down the family in the seventeen-year-old photos in a heartwarming story. [Read More]
An artificially intelligent (AI) deep fake video of a woman "returning" after going missing 13 years ago has sparked outrage over the abuse of this technology. [Read More]
Montana’s legislature just passed a bill that would force app stores like the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store to ban TikTok in the state, making it likely to be the first in the U.
New data reveals that Instagram is the app that people in the U.S. want to delete more than any other.
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The possibility of a national TikTok ban continues to grow as U.S. Senators push a bill that will help "ban or prohibit" foreign technology such as the Chinese-owned video app. [Read More]
TikTok is setting a 60-minute daily screen time limit for users who are under the age of 18.
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A new artificial intelligence (AI) powered face filter that reportedly never glitches has left TikTok users shocked and concerned about how dangerously realistic it is. [Read More]
The European Commission, the executive power of the European Union (EU), has banned its staff from using TikTok over security fears. [Read More]
Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) has issued a written demand to the CEOs of Google and Apple to remove TikTok from their company's app stores due to the possibility that China's government could "weaponize" the app against the United States. [Read More]
TikTok will start telling users why it has recommended videos in their feeds amid demands from campaigners for more transparency about its algorithm. [Read More]
A viral TikTok video claiming that "oranges can take photos" proves that pinhole cameras can be made out of literally anything, including citrus fruit. [Read More]
First, Generation Z was bringing back the point-and-shoot digital cameras of the early 2000s, but now TikTok users are bringing back the Fujifilm X100 -- and dramatically driving up the price of the camera with it. [Read More]
New data has revealed that the majority of creators feel "screwed" by large social media platforms and their algorithms.
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It seems like Instagram is not done pushing its TikTok-clone Reels on everyone. The app is working on new "Achievement" badges to incentivize creators to make Reels. [Read More]
BeReal has soared to over 53 million downloads but only nine percent of users open the app daily, new data claims.
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BeReal is considering adding paid features to the app in a bid to avoid Instagram-style advertising.
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Snapchat is making the desktop version of its app, Snapchat for Web, available to all users worldwide.
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A filmmaker has revealed just how difficult it can be for a photographer to get the perfect shot at a red carpet event in New York Fashion Week (NYFW). [Read More]
Instagram's bet on Reels as a way to take on TikTok isn't paying off well according to internal documents seen by The Wall Street Journal. Reels have less than one-tenth of the engagement of TikTok videos, and that number is falling. [Read More]
Whether you like them or not, Artificial Intelligence (AI) image generators have exploded in popularity this year and the technology shows no signs of stopping. [Read More]
BeReal has soared to over 10 million daily active users. An epic climb from the 10,000 users the app had a little over a year ago. [Read More]
A new scam on TikTok supports the adage: If it's too good to be true, it probably is. Cybercriminals are using TikTok videos to promise free access to otherwise expensive software, including Adobe Photoshop.
Newly unsealed videos show TikTok employees worrying that the platform's potentially addictive features could harm young users’ mental health, and they may "never want to leave" the app. [Read More]
He is the Greatest of All Time (GOAT) in the soccer world and now Lionel Messi will have a camera trained on him for an entire game, delivering a unique, player-first viewing experience that brings fans closer to every moment of Messi magic. [Read More]
TikTok will block teens from using the video app after 10 P.M. and instead wind them down to sleep with calming music and meditation exercises. [Read More]
TikTok will ban teenagers from using beauty filters amid concerns about the dangerous impact on younger users' mental health. [Read More]
Australia’s House of Representatives passed a landmark bill that would ban children younger than 16 years old from using social media. [Read More]
President-elect Donald Trump's team says "he will deliver" on his promise to save TikTok and prevent its threatened U.S. ban in two and half months. [Read More]
Deepfakes of celebrities such as Taylor Swift, Ice Spice, Drake, and even the late Queen Elizabeth are teaching math to kids in viral TikTok videos. [Read More]
Compact digital cameras continue to have a revival with searches for the Nikon Coolpix soaring by over 8,500% in the last year. [Read More]
A wedding photographer at the center of a TikTok storm over her prices says she has faced death threats after revealing she charges $8,500 for her pictures which many have dismissed as "blurry". [Read More]
Influencers are using TikTok's in-app camera to take "better" selfies and claim that it is seriously better than the iPhone's "harsh" camera which "sucks." [Read More]
In the last few days, the internet has been gripped by photos that tell the eerie mystery of the Clarke family and the cube they were buried in. But the images are AI-generated. [Read More]
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that the city government filed a lawsuit against five social media platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and YouTube. [Read More]
Adobe Express, an all-in-one design, photo, and video app, now has first-of-its-kind integration with the social media platform TikTok. [Read More]
TikTok and Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, are suing the European Union (EU) over a segment of the Digital Services Act that requires the companies to pay a fee to cover the cost of regulating them. [Read More]
Cabin crew at British Airways have been told they risk being fired if they take any photos while staying at hotels during layovers. [Read More]
A woman has sparked debate after pointing out that different generations have distinct styles of taking photos.
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TikTok has launched its first image-to-video AI feature that can transform a user's photos into videos for free within the app. [Read More]
TikTok may soon have ads featuring AI-generated versions of popular creators and stock actors to add a “human touch.”
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There is a growing backlash against influencers filming strangers in public without their knowledge for videos on social media. [Read More]
A viral news story on TikTok about "Douglass Barnes" who carried out an "eye for an eye" murder on a cop's daughter is made up, police say. [Read More]
Four school boards in Ontario, Canada have launched a $4.5 billion lawsuit against social media giants Meta, Snapchat, and TikTok for what they describe as negligently designed apps. [Read More]
A street photographer has gone viral with his epic impromptu portrait of actor Gordon Cormier who plays Avatar Aang in Netflix's hit series Avatar: The Last Airbender. [Read More]
New York City is taking a strong stance against social media and becomes the first city in the United States to designate it as a "public health hazard" and using imagery that compares it to smoking. [Read More]
TikTok users are expanding their photos with artificial intelligence (AI) in a new trend.
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