TikTok is a major new outlet for self-expression, one proudly home to the silly, the loud and the weird

The video sharing app TikTok is mostly filled with Gen Zers doing funny dances and attempting silly challenges. But there’s a new TikTok star who has captured the hearts of people of all ages with his delightfully adorable cooking videos — and the internet wasn’t even around when he was born.

The Transportation Security Administration says it won’t allow employees to use the China-owned video app TikTok to create social media posts for the agency after the Senate’s top Democrat raised concerns about potential national security issues

A viral social media challenge is raising major safety concerns.

Two Massachusetts teenagers are facing charges after eight electrical outlets at their high school in Hanson were short-circuited as part of a social media challenge, police said Tuesday.

The “outlet challenge,” made popular on TikTok, involves partially inserting a plug into an outlet, then sliding a penny down the wall onto the exposed prongs.

A viral challenge circulating on the social media app TikTok has Massachusetts firefighters issuing an alert. It’s called the “outlet challenge,” and it involves partially inserting the plug of a cellphone charger into an outlet, then sliding a penny down the wall onto the exposed prongs.

A viral challenge circulating on the social media app TikTok has Massachusetts firefighters issuing an alert. It’s called the “outlet challenge,” and it involves partially inserting the plug of a cellphone charger into an outlet, then sliding a penny down the wall onto the exposed prongs.

A California man says social media might have saved his life, NBC News reports. Alex Griswold, 24, says that after he posted a lighthearted video on TikTok last month, viewers urged him to have the mole on his back checked out by a doctor. Two people who saw Griwold’s “what it’s like being married” video warned him that the mole looked...