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World
A Single Image of Gun Violence Could Help Change Minds
At a judges’ dinner this week for the Livingston Awards, aimed to honor the work of journalists under 35 years old, the older ink-stained ...
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Business
Drew Afualo, TikTok Star, Goes On a New York Breakfast Crawl
On a recent morning, the social media star Drew Afualo stepped into Tompkins Square Bagels, a deli in the East Village of Manhattan. After ...
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World
TikTok Is Gripped by the Violence and Misinformation of Ukraine War
Bre Hernandez used to scan TikTok for videos of makeup tutorials and taco truck reviews. Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the 19-year-old has spent ...
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Business
TikTok Made Them Famous. Figuring Out What’s Next Is Tough.
Before Charli D’Amelio became the most popular creator on TikTok — she currently has 132 million followers — she danced on the competitive ...
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Business
Retailers Find TikTok a ‘Sunny Place’ for Advertising
Ever since young Americans began their exodus from commercial television to streaming services and social media, advertisers have searched for ...
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Business
How TikTok Keeps You Watching
There are four main goals for TikTok’s algorithm: 用户价值, 用户价值 (长期), 作者价值, and 平台价值, which the company translates as “user value,” “long-term user ...
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Arts
The Little Lad? Berries and Cream? Call It Performance Art.
The tale of the Little Lad is a yarn only the internet could spin. In 2007, the performance artist Jack Ferver appeared in a cunningly strange ...
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Business
How Social Media Turned ‘Prioritizing Mental Health’ Into a Trap
Back in January, Vogue posted a video documenting a day in the life of a TikTok star named Dixie D’Amelio. Inside her antiseptic luxury apartment ...
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Arts
How Lip-Syncing Got Real
For several weeks, Netflix has been insisting that I watch its gender-swapped remake of the ’90s teen romantic comedy “She’s All That.” This ...
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Business
TikTok Wants More Ad Dollars, and It Has a New Plan to Get Them
TikTok has a bit of an advertising problem. Homemade videos that function more or less like commercials have received hundreds of millions of ...
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