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By Hera Rizwan The US House of Representatives has passed a bill with an overwhelming majority to ban TikTok, giving ByteDance, its Chinese owner approximately six months to divest the US assets of the popular short-video app. This action comes in response to concerns regarding the app's use by approximately 170 million Americans. The bill, which received a 352-65 vote with bipartisan support, now awaits further consideration in the Senate. However, the bill's fate in the Senate is less certain, as some lawmakers advocate for alternative approaches to regulating foreign-owned apps with potenti...
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By Srijit Das A video of a specially abled man interacting with and addressing children and working professionals is viral online with the false claim that he is the founder of Chinese social media platform TikTok. BOOM found that the claims are false; the viral videos have misidentified the man who, in reality, is a Chinese motivational speaker Chen Zhou and not the founder of TikTok. The viral video carries two clips--the first shows the man interacting with the students and the second shows him addressing a crowd of adults. One of the users on X (formerly Twitter) posted the video with a ca...
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By The Conversation Cydney Thompson, Trinity College DublinYou might have seen this painting making the rounds on TikTok. Maybe you’ve even made a video responding to it. A young woman in a Victorian wedding dress is staring down the viewer with disdain in her eyes. Three women surround her, seemingly trying to placate her. Nonetheless, the direct and unrepentant gaze of the bride grips its viewer with the intensity of her stare. On TikTok, the painting is accompanied by thundering classical music, reminiscent of the climax of a battle – Verdi’s Requiem Dies Irae. The woman’s gaze has been her...
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By Hera Rizwan In a world increasingly interconnected through digital platforms, a new study has cast a revealing spotlight on the intricate dynamics between social media use and individual well-being. The research, which surveyed 1,000 college students in the UK, explores how social exclusion and fear of missing out (FOMO) fuels individuals to use TikTok and Instagram. The findings suggest a phenomenon termed the "social media trap," where a considerable percentage of individuals may be experiencing negative well-being due to their active participation in these online spaces. Here's what that...
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By Titha Ghosh Osama Bin Laden’s letter from 21 years ago is viral on TikTok after a TikTok user, Lynnette Adkins implored her 12 million followers to read the letter. The founder of Al Qaeda had written the letter only a year after the 9/11 attacks. The source was an article from 2002 on the Guardian’s website, that now in a bid to stop the virality, has been removed. Following Adkins, Tik-Tokers posted their reactions to the “Letter to America”, arguing that it had opened up their minds to the hypocrisies of American politics. Some even claimed that it made them reevaluate their view of the ...
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By Hazel Gandhi A video showing a social media content creator celebrating India's Independence Day in Dubai along with Dubai Police personnel is viral online misidentifying the former as the prince of Dubai. BOOM found that the video shows a social media creator who hails from Kerala and not Dubai's Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan. The video shows a man dressed in Arabic attire getting out of a car painted in UAE and Indian flags, following which some people dressed as policemen are seen stepping out from a Dubai Police car. They even celebrate by cutting a cake and waving the Indian flag. These p...
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By Alisha Dutta Nestled along a non-perennial river that floods every monsoon, the people of Jahal, a small village in Odisha, spend most of their time recovering from relentless natural disasters. With a population of roughly 1100 people, Jahal is dotted with mud huts, with just a handful of concrete houses in between. One of these brick houses belongs to Badri Narayan Bhadra and his young wife Monalisa. When you try to make your way down the winding path that leads to Badri Narayan's house, monkeys of various sizes flock around, scampering across the path and hopping along your side. For tho...
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By Alisha Dutta The outbreak of COVID-19 was many things for many people, for the rich it was a time when they could stay back home with their family and contemplate, while for some it meant the loss of livelihood and starvation. For Devesh Mirchandani, a 26-year-old choreographer, it meant no work. Mirchandani's primary source of income came from the money he made from the workshops he conducted in cities like Delhi, Kolkata, Vadodara, Mumbai and Pune, by being physically present. With over a million followers on Youtube, Mirchandani was a sought-after choreographer whose workshops would sell...
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