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EU threatens to shut down popular app that pays users to watch videos

Arts, Culture & Media

The European Commission is calling the new TikTok Lite app “toxic as cigarettes.” It’s a spin-off from the makers of the original TikTok, that pays people to watch videos. The EC says it was launched without regard for risks of addiction, or safeguards against children using it. Now they’re threatening to suspend it.

Syrian filmmaker and satirist Firas Alshater says Europe will embrace its new refugees, but it just might take a while.

He trusts you. Do you trust this Syrian refugee?

Justice

Crack, Lies and Videotape — it’s a tale only Toronto can tell

Global Politics

Banksy’s spoof video of Syrian rebels gets panned by a Middle East satirist

Arts, Culture & Media

Netflix slows down on Wall Street despite recent success

Business, Economics and Jobs
The World

I Spy

Global Politics

The top—selling iPhone app iSpy lets the user watch thousands of live—streaming closed—circuit television cameras around the world.

The World

Eyeborg: Filmmaker wants to install a wireless camera in his eye to document life

Arts, Culture & Media

Canadian filmmaker Rob Spence is taking the all-seeing eye concept to a new level, combining reality TV, public journalism and documentary filmmaking. If he can raise the money, he’ll install a wireless video camera into his own prosthetic eye.

The World

You’re on candid camera… and making a music video

Arts, Culture & Media

The Takeaway speaks with British rock band The Get Out Clause. They’ve made innovative use of CCTV cameras in their home city of Manchester to create a music video for their new song.