TikTok to pay $400 million over child privacy lawsuit

The world's fastest growing social media platform just cleared its last major legal hurdle for nearly half-a-billion dollars. Yesterday, the Department of Justice announced that its legal actions against TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, over alleged violations of children's online privacy …

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:03:51 GMT

The world's fastest growing social media platform just cleared its last major legal hurdle for nearly half-a-billion dollars. Yesterday, the Department of Justice announced that its legal actions against TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, over alleged violations of children's online privacy …

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