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The House is gearing up for a Wednesday vote on legislation that could lead to a ban on one of the most widely used apps in the world, with an estimated 170 million users in the United States alone.

Officials of YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok spoke before a Senate subcommittee looking at the platforms' impact on kids and teens.

Montana became the first state in the country to ban the app TikTok. Lily Hay Newman of WIRED tells NPR's Ayesha Rascoe that the law may be hard to enforce and defend in court.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Alyssa Bereznak of The Ringer about how the social media platform TikTok could serve as the future of music sharing.

Gov. Andy Beshear’s administration banned TikTok on state government devices and accounts Thursday as concerns grow over the app’s risk to national security.

TikTok is helping shape a new generation's political identity. And while most politicians aren't using the app, some younger lawmakers are embracing it to try to connect with younger voters.

The issue around the word "Epstein" comes as users experience outages and functionality problems since the popular video app was recently sold to a group of mostly U.S. investors, including Trump ally Larry Ellison.

Lame, 25, produces nearly silent videos that have made him the most-followed personality on TikTok. But U.S. officials say Lame, an Italian citizen, overstayed his visa earlier this month.

Noah speaks with Ziad Abu Amr(ze-YADAH-boo AH-mer), a professor at Bir Zeit (beer-ZATE) University, about the recent bombing attacks in Israel. Abu Amr says such multiple attacks, in quick succession, are not the style of Hamas' military wing and that they are problably the work of a splinter group.

One musician on Instagram and TikTok has made a name for himself off something many of us do in the privacy of our own homes — singing made up songs to our dogs.