TikTok News & Updates
Last updated September 9, 2026
TikTok is adding voice comments, creator polls, photo carousels, and Live Photos to comment sections in a global rollout
TikTok backs out of a House Select Committee on China roundtable on its algorithm and Chinese access to Americans’ data
NFL renews its TikTok deal with a multi-year partnership adding league hubs, a fan hub, and ad inventory around club accounts
Sephora launches on TikTok Shop September 19 with a monthly Drop Shop that puts partner brand products on the platform first
TikTok reports 189 million monthly users in the EU while its human moderation staff there has shrunk 41% since October 2024
TikTok Shop’s live sales more than double in the first half of 2026 as US livestream shopping heads toward $20 billion this year
Meta is taking its fight to bring down YouTube and TikTok to traditional media with full-page newspaper ads
Meta runs full-page newspaper ads pressing TikTok and YouTube to adopt the teen safety limits it agreed to in its settlement
TikTok adds six media partners to its Out of Phone program, extending creator content onto screens in five European markets
Teen TikTok use in Australia has returned to within a point of where it sat before the world’s first under-16 social media ban
TikTok adds an optional setting that lets users name someone to manage their profile after they die or have it deleted
Brazil’s data protection agency fines ByteDance R$153.7 million over how TikTok handles children’s and teenagers’ data
TikTok is exploring a peer-to-peer payments feature
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Pennsylvania sues TikTok over a 13+ app store rating the state says understates the sex, drugs, and violence on the app
TikTok faces a Senate demand for answers by September 1 on the algorithm safety feature it withheld from millions of users
TikTok to pay $400M to settle the Justice Department’s 2024 children’s privacy suit over data collected from under-13 users
TikTok cuts 75 jobs at its Bellevue e-commerce hub, with nearly all of the roles tied to TikTok Shop and global e-commerce
TikTok tests an AI intro tool in its Live composer that tells drop-in viewers who the host is and what the stream covers
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