![A magnifying glass zooms in on the TikTok logo, which is marked with a red X. The strongly opposed legislation aimed at prohibiting foreign adversary controlled applications would prove beneficial to national security. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons | Northern Star Graphic)](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Untitled-design.png)
TikTok regulation beneficial to national security
By Will Thiel, Opinion Columnist
| April 16, 2024
![TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew during the March 23 Congress hearing on TikToks safety for children. TikTok is facing bans across the country such as a recent ban in Utah.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/AP23092788274203-900x600.jpg)
TikTok CEO’s heated debate with Congress
By Sarah Rose, Managing Editor
| April 4, 2023
![The TikTok logo on a phone screen with other apps around it.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/TT.jpeg)
AI presidents invade TikTok
By Anika Haley, Lifestyle Writer
| March 30, 2023
![The TikTok logo on a phone screen with other apps around it.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/TT.jpeg)
TikTok’s potential U.S. ban: What we know
By Sarah Rose, Managing Editor
| February 28, 2023
![An NIU student takes a break from homework to watch some TikTok videos.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_7461-600x900.jpg)
OPINION: TikTok is overrated
By Parker Otto
| February 4, 2022
![Movie cases line up on a dusty shelf in a college apartment. Physical copies have gone ancient due to streaming services taking off.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/parkerscolumn-900x600.jpg)
Modernity has erased the physical concept of art
By Parker Otto
| January 24, 2022
![A photograph of Darryl Postelnick outside of his house where some of his cooking videos are filmed.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/darrylpostelnick1-675x900.jpg)
NIU alumnus finds TikTok fame through food
By Madelaine Vikse, Editor-in-Chief
| January 23, 2022
![SHEIN, an online store, has recently become a main source of fast fashion as it is heavily promoted across social media platforms through SHEIN Hauls.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/fast-fashion-900x600.jpg)
Fast fashion is harmful to both environment and mental health
By Summer Fitzgerald
| December 27, 2021
TikTok working with Chinese government to monitor user data causes privacy concern
By Jack Baudoin, Lifestyle writer
| January 21, 2020
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