TikTokers are slathering beef fat on their faces, and dermatologists are alarmed

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Holy cow, Batman! People are rubbing beef tallow all over themselves.

Despite the advice shared by dermatologists, some people are using rendered beef fat as a new skin care product. Essentially, they are wiping cow oil all over themselves. Tallow does leave a barrier of oil on your skin that traps in moisture, but it also causes a host of allergic reactions and is more likely to exacerbate than cure acne. — Read the rest

TikTok fined €530m for sending user data to servers in China

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TikTok illegally transferred user data to servers in China and Ireland's Data Protection Commission levied a €530 million (~$600 million) fine on it Thursday. Among the most significant breaches of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) yet to hit the "find out" stage for big tech companies, the fine came with an order that the company take "corrective measures" to guarantee future compliance. — Read the rest

TikTok's popular Mr. Prada arrested after driving car of murdered man

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A popular TikToker with a following of over 4 million was arrested after driving a stolen car that belonged to a therapist who had been murdered in Texas days before.

Terryon Thomas, a comedic 20-year-old who goes by Mr. Prada online, was arrested in Dallas on Tuesday after police found him driving a black Lincoln that belonged to 69-year-old William Nicholas Abraham — an author and self-described life coach — whose body was found wrapped in a tarp and "partially hidden along the road" near the Louisiana border over the weekend, according to USA Today. — Read the rest

TikTok's bizarre priorities: Blurring cigarettes but allowing Nazi propaganda

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Content on TikTok frequently has images blurred out, presumably so they won't get flagged and removed by the moderators. These images surely are the worst things imaginable, shocking to our humanity: violence (usually fake violence from TV or movies), guns (usually fake guns from TV or movies), and… cigarettes (sometimes real, sometimes fake from TV or movies.).  — Read the rest

TikTok is making you bored

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If your response to boredom is to whip out your phone and scroll endlessly through TikTok, you might be doing it wrong. According to a study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, this kind of "digital switching" intensifies boredom rather than relieving it. — Read the rest

OK State Superintendent using Libs of TikTok to "hunt down school employees who joked about Trump's ear"

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Ryan Walters, Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction, recently posted a video announcing that he is using information gathered from Libs of TikTok—the notoriously transphobic and anti-LGBTQ social media account founded and run by right-wing "journalist" and activist Chaya Raichik—to as Ron Filipkowski puts it, "hunt down school employees who joked about Trump's ear getting nicked so that they can be fired."  — Read the rest