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Trump's attempt to rally Gen Z continues — with Logan Paul
Trump sat down with Paul for a close to hour-long interview on the latter's "Impaulsive" podcast, w…
Aditi Bharade
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TikTok's aggressive growth tactics are upsetting partners, creators, and everyday users
TikTok is puffing up its chest as it takes on politicians, business partners, and its own users. It…
Dan Whateley,Sydney Bradley
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MrBeast, the king of YouTube, is setting his sights on the Chinese market
"Thank you for watching my videos, so happy to be finally on Bilibili," MrBeast wrote on the Chines…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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Elon Musk's Chinese doppelgänger posted a new shirtless boxing video, and now the real Musk is once again wondering if his Asian lookalike could be a real person
"Still don't know if real or AI-generated," Musk wrote in response to a video of his doppelgänger t…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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A TikToker told his 400,000 fans he was a Russian special forces warrior fighting US marines in Ukraine, but he turned out to be a Chinese grifter selling vodka online
Baoer Kechatie would falsely brag that he helped Russia secure territory in Ukraine, and that he de…
Matthew Loh
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Jack Ma's Alibaba was once China's answer to Silicon Valley giants – but its turnaround plan appears to be in trouble
The Chinese tech firm was once Asia's most valuable company, but insiders say it's struggling with …
Hasan Chowdhury
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A 21-year-old influencer has died at a Chinese weight loss camp where she attempted to shed 200 pounds as fast as possible
The influencer, known as Cuihua, said she lost 57 pounds in just two months, and would livestream h…
Matthew Loh
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A woman working in a preschool was caught washing dishes in a urinal on China's version of TikTok and people online are freaking out
In the video posted on Douyin a woman was shown washing metal plates in the urinal at Sunshine Kind…
Marielle Descalsota
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Lawmakers rip into tech CEOs at Senate hearing on online child safety
Lawmakers grilled CEOs on whether they support their laws. Some execs even got a little testy.
Aaron Mok,Camilo Fonseca
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Chinese youths want to show their peers — TikTok by TikTok — how glorious it is to live alone
"Who wouldn't want to try my blessed solo life?" says one TikToker, who boasts about small wins lik…
Matthew Loh
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TikTok parent ByteDance has special stock owned by China's government. Here's how 'golden shares' give Beijing influence over the social-media giant.
In 2021, China's government bought a 1% stake in the main domestic unit of TikTok owner ByteDance.
Filip De Mott
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A Chinese influencer said he will 'not admit defeat' after a video of him with swollen lips from eating a live wasp led to backlash
A Chinese influencer known as Wang Can faced backlash and was reportedly banned from China's versio…
Charissa Cheong
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TikTok videos produced in China are trying to rip people off with scam products, a report says
Scam products like plain coffee that purports to be special weight-loss coffee are all over TikTok,…
Lakshmi Varanasi
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A Chinese food blogger was fined $18,500 after cooking and eating a great white shark
The influencer, identified by officials as Jin, and known as Tizi in her videos, shared videos of h…
Joshua Zitser
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There's a pig theme park in China and people are paying $1,200 a night for a hotel room so they may see — but not smell — the piggery
The hotel room features a huge glass window overlooking a farm filled with numerous prized black-an…
Huileng Tan
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A young woman injured in a car crash got flamed for receiving blood donations from dozens of civil servants, over concerns they were forced to become 'mobile blood banks for the rich'
State media says that Yu Yanyan, 27, was given a blood transfusion from "enthusiastic" Tibetan civi…
Matthew Loh
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Matt Gaetz called for Biden to 'blow up TikTok' after the Air Force shot down the suspected Chinese spy balloon
The US Air Force shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon on Saturday. Later the same day, Gaetz t…
Cheryl Teh
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A UPenn student started a YouTube channel. In weeks, her face was stolen on China's social media.
Behind the Great Firewall, accounts using deepfakes of YouTubers in Europe and the US are promoting…
Matthew Loh
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A top executive was fired after being caught having an affair on China's version of TikTok. Now, the $85 dress his mistress wore in the video is selling out.
Chinese users on Weibo rushed to buy the pink dress the mistress wore, calling it the "dismissal" d…
Marielle Descalsota
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A man says his daughter died after being denied care at a COVID quarantine center in China. Social-media posts calling for an investigation managed to evade China's heavy censorship.
The man said his 14-year-old daughter was incoherent on her third day of quarantine, but workers at…