Conspiracy theories spread on social media, TikTok stars break into mainstream

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Social media companies took action to mitigate the rising spread of misinformation this year. Comedian Sarah Cooper and vegan cook Tabitha Brown amassed a following on TikTok and beyond.

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Sarah Anne Cooper is a Jamaican-American author and comedian based in New York City. Her first book, 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings, was published on October 4, 2016. Her second book, How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings, was published on October 30, 2018.

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TikTok, known in China as Douyin, is a Chinese video-sharing social networking service owned by ByteDance, a Beijing-based Internet technology company founded in 2012 by Zhang Yiming. It is used to create short music, lip-sync, dance, comedy and talent videos of 3 to 15 seconds, and short looping videos of 3 to 60 seconds.

ByteDance first launched Douyin for the Chinese market in September 2016. Later, TikTok was launched in 2017 for iOS and Android in most markets outside of mainland China; however, it only became available worldwide, including the United States, after merging with another Chinese social media service Musical.ly on 2 August 2018.

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