TikTok News & Updates
Last updated October 26, 2026
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
ByteDance and the Motion Picture Association agree on IP guardrails for Seedance and Seedream after February cease-and-desist
TikTok Shop recruits Whatnot’s biggest live-auction sellers as Whatnot’s 30-cent per-transaction fee becomes a sore point
TikTok is developing peer-to-peer payments inside direct messages, run through the TikTok Pay service it offers in Southeast Asia
Chief Media acquires Amazon agency AMZ Advisers three weeks after AMZ Advisers bought into TikTok Shop agency Reach Social
Google lowers its search profile eligibility threshold to 35k followers on YouTube, Instagram, or X and 100k on TikTok
Shake Shack denies penalizing customers who skip the tip after a viral TikTok shows kiosk prices rising 50 cents an item
70% of US social buyers have bought something on TikTok in the past year, a higher share than any other social platform
TikTok Shop drives more US online spending than Target, Costco, and The Home Depot at roughly 2% of online retail spend
TikTok leads on brand deals overall but loses the highest-earning creators to Instagram, per a survey of 5,000 creators
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