TikTok

How TikTok Shop ads turned an obscure, inaccurate book into a bestseller

By A.W. Ohlheiser May 9

Is the new TikTok ban for real?

By Nicole Narea April 24

TikTok could avoid a ban with a sale. Finding a buyer won’t be easy.

By Nicole Narea March 14

22 Updates

What to know about TikTok’s fate in the US

By Vox Staff March 14

It’s not just Gen Z. Here’s what TikTok’s user base tells us about a potential ban’s impact.

By Christian Paz March 14

Banning TikTok would be both ineffective and harmful

By A.W. Ohlheiser March 14

How discredited health claims find a second life on TikTok

By A.W. Ohlheiser February 15

Who’ll blink first: The world’s largest music company or TikTok?

By Sean Rameswaram and Hady Mawajdeh February 13

Would you dump someone if they didn’t peel you an orange?

By Alex Abad-Santos January 25

Starbucks has lost $11 billion market value, and not because of boycotts

By Emily Stewart December 13, 2023

Why influencers with 7, 8, or 10 kids are having a moment

By Anna North November 20, 2023

How TikTok profits off dangerous health trends

By A.W. Ohlheiser October 5, 2023

TikTok’s shopping push left my For You page in shambles

By A.W. Ohlheiser September 14, 2023

The biggest names in food are just regular people on TikTok

By Alicia Kennedy August 4, 2023

Why TikTokers are drinking laundry detergent

By A.W. Ohlheiser July 29, 2023

TikTok is confusing by design

By Sara Morrison July 5, 2023

The rise of artificial intelligence, explained

The ad industry is going all-in on AI

By Shirin Ghaffary June 29, 2023

How a carmaker’s mistake created the ultimate internet challenge

By Sara Morrison June 8, 2023

The rise of artificial intelligence, explained

What will stop AI from flooding the internet with fake images?

By Shirin Ghaffary June 3, 2023

Montana’s TikTok ban — and the legal challenge of it — explained

By Li Zhou May 23, 2023

9 questions about the attempts to ban TikTok, answered

By Sara Morrison, Christian Paz, and 1 more May 23, 2023

The RESTRICT Act is more bad news for TikTok

By Sara Morrison March 29, 2023

The “You’re doing it wrong”-ification of TikTok

By Anna North March 24, 2023

3 winners and 3 losers from Congress’s TikTok hearing

By Sara Morrison and Christian Paz March 23, 2023

Is TikTok too big to ban?

By Sara Morrison March 21, 2023

TikTok isn’t really limiting kids’ time on its app

By Sara Morrison March 2, 2023

Inside the lonely and surprisingly earnest world of political TikTok

By Christian Paz February 3, 2023

TikTok’s master plan to win over Washington

By Sara Morrison February 2, 2023

Behind the scenes at TikTok as it campaigns to change Americans’ hearts and minds

By Shirin Ghaffary February 2, 2023

Lucky girl syndrome and the endless rebranding of “The Secret”

By Rebecca Jennings February 1, 2023

“Hater” doesn’t have to be a dirty word

By Rebecca Jennings January 18, 2023

Sleazeballs are hot again

By Rebecca Jennings January 4, 2023

Good luck explaining a TikTok ban to young people

By Christian Paz December 24, 2022

The irresistible voyeurism of “day in my life” videos

By Rebecca Jennings December 21, 2022

The US government’s TikTok ban is more complicated than it sounds

By Sara Morrison December 20, 2022

Maybe Trump was right about TikTok

By Sara Morrison December 13, 2022

NASA’s rules for astronaut posting: No TikTok, don’t embarrass us

By Rebecca Heilweil November 16, 2022

TikTok won’t stop serving me horror and death

By Sara Morrison October 26, 2022

So your kid wants to be an influencer

By Rebecca Jennings August 31, 2022

Where we’re spending our screentime, in 3 charts

By Peter Kafka and Rani Molla August 31, 2022

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