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  Kenyan TikToker Maribel Irungu (also known as Immac Irungu) has ended her life.
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  TikTok: Should we trust the Chinese social-media video app?

  [ad_1] TikTok is thought to have about half a billion active users worldwide, with a large percentage in their teens or early 20s. The short-form video app has become a fertile birthing ground for memes, many of them music-related. One example involved users and their pets switching into cowboy and cowgirl clothing at

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  TikTok apologises and reinstates banned US teen

  [ad_1] Image copyright TikTok Image caption Ms Aziz said she wanted to raise awareness about China's detainment of "innocent Muslims" Chinese-owned social network TikTok has apologised to a US teenager who was blocked from the service after she posted a viral clip criticising China's treatment of the Uighur Muslims . T

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  TikTok overtakes Facebook

  Chinese-owned social media app TikTok has overtaken Facebook to become the world’s second most downloaded app. Only the Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp has more installs globally. Tech in Asia reports that the Chinese-owned app TikTok and its Chinese equivalent Douyin has been ranked as the world’s second most do

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  Doctors on TikTok Try to Go Viral

  [ad_1] For decades, sex education in the classroom could be pretty cringey. For some adolescents, it meant a pitch for abstinence; others watched their teachers put condoms on bananas and attempt sketches of fallopian tubes that looked more like modern art . On TikTok, sex ed is being flipped on its head. Teenagers who

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  TikTok Takes Trump to Court

  President Trump had ticked out TikTok businessess from the United States a move that Tiktok has officially announced that it will challenge in court. The official Tik Tok logo (P|Tiktok) U.S. President Donald Trump had issued an executive order that ordered ByteDance, TikTok ’s Chinese parent company, to sell the app

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  ByteDance Buys Trump's Time to Avoid TikTok Shutdown

  President of the Free Nation Donald Trump has, in a Saturday press briefing, supported a deal in principle that would allow Chinese app-TikTok to continue its operations in the United States. On Friday, President Trump had issued an Executive Order that TikTok China’s ByteDance businesses and WE Chat be terminated and

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  Ogilo John Migun: The Dancing TikTok Chief from Kisumu

  Kisumu-based Assistant Chief John Ogilo Migun During the festive season, videos of a Kenyan middle-aged man enjoying life to the fullest while dancing to the local hit song “Kuna Kuna” went viral on social media. By new year’s eve, the jolly man had become the poster boy for the popular track by Vic West ft. Fathermoh

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  TikTok Star Azziad Nasenya Addresses Viral Explicit Video

  Azziad Nasenya TikTok sensation, Azziad Nasenya, has addressed the recent scandal surrounding a viral explicit video that has been circulating on social media. Despite some users claiming that it was a leaked video of the star, Azziad has taken to her Instagram to set the record straight, insisting that the girl in the

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  Gov’t Spokesperson Mwaura Alleges TikTok Being Used to Incite Military Coups Across Africa

  TikTok, the wildly popular social media app loved by Africa’s youth, is now being accused of playing a dangerous new role: fueling military coups. In a startling revelation, Kenya’s Government Spokesperson Isaac Mwaura claims that unknown forces are using TikTok to wage psychological warfare, targeting African presiden

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  Court Bars TikTok Creator 'Gitonga Archives' from Posting on Ongoing Ksh 500K Extortion Case

  Popular TikTok content creator Joseph Gitonga, widely known online as “Gitonga Archives,” was on Friday granted bail by the Milimani Law Courts following his plea of not guilty to charges of attempting to extort Ksh 500,000 from a media service provider contracted by Co-operative Bank. TikToker Gitonga Archives granted

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  Students Demand Payment From Tecno Kenya for TikTok Campaign Work

  A group of students from the Technical University of Kenya (TUK), who had partnered with the consumer electronics company Tecno Kenya to create a campus TikTok advertisement campaign aimed at promoting the brand among young audiences, have reported that they have not received payment for several weeks of work that they

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  How Tik Tok Has Been Snooping On iOS Users

  Chinese owned video sharing platform Tik Tok is battling yet another allegations of privacy breach. The official Tik Tok logo (P|Tiktok) In March, a report published by Telegraph exposed that Tik Tok had been snooping on clipboard content on iOS devices. Another report compiled by Telegraph last week has revealed tha

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  What Happened to Selena Vargas? The Truth Behind Her Disappearance

  Whether a hoax or reality, Selena Vargas’ story shook the internet when TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and more were not as mainstream as today. Imagine the magnitude of such a revelation currently. And what happened, you might wonder? It was a purported case of living a double life. Selena, suspected to be an adult film

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  Crisis at MTRH: New Mothers Detained and Patients Endure Leftover Meals

  The Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Eldoret is facing a storm of criticism after claims that new mothers are being detained over unpaid Social Health Authority (SHA) fees and that patients are being served leftover food. A viral TikTok video and a detailed exposé by the Daily Nation have forced the hospita

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