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Series with 370m views echoes Chinese state media calls for return of cultural relics

Human Rights Watch says racist tropes ‘common’ across Chinese social media, and that platforms and government must act.

Analysis by Human Rights Watch finds the country’s major platforms ‘do not routinely address’ pervasive online racism

China’s internet watchdog has laid out regulations to curb the amount of time children spend on their smartphones, in the latest blow to firms such as Tencent and ByteDance, which run social media platforms and online games

JAKARTA: Inside a shophouse in Northeast Jakarta, dozens of salespeople take turns peddling cosmetics, contact lenses and hair accessories. A woman helps a potential customer choose the right shade of lipstick for her skin tone, while a man yells out the latest markdown on vitamin tablets.

An man posing as "Paul Kochadie" fooled over 400,000 followers on his Douyin account (TikTok's equivalent in China) by using artificial intelligence to pretend to be a Russian soldier on the Ukrainian frontline. This man, who sent "daily" updates about the war in Ukraine, was neither Russian nor a soldier,…

Photos shared on social media show students draping themselves over park benches or stairs in poses of dejection

The company behind TikTok aims to provide food delivery, travel bookings and whatever else people want.

Brother Three Thousand, a livestreamer on China's version of TikTok Douyin, broadcast himself downing bottles of spirits before he was discovered dead several hours later

The streamer was found 12 hours after his broadcast on the Chinese version of TikTok, Douyin

FRONTON, Texas -Lihua Wu's journey to the United States started when she scrolled past the words "The Route", one of several common hashtags on Douyin, the Chinese counterpart of TikTok, advising migrants on the irregular overland trek across Latin America to the United States, also known online as "the Big…