A 19-year-old California woman has reached a settlement with TikTok just hours before the scheduled start of the trial in her suit alleging that the social media platform designed its algorithm to hook users,

A TikToker who was widely criticised for filming herself having a panic attack on a flight has come forward to explain that a traumatic experience on a previous flight shaped her reaction. She said that she was on the 2024 SQ321 flight that encountered extreme turbulence that left one passenger dead and many injured.

The BBC has seen hundreds of similar short videos on TikTok and Instagram posted by dozens of different male influencers. The influencers claim to offer advice on how to pick up women and, in most cases, these videos appear to have been filmed secretly - using Meta smart glasses.

The woman's original TikTok video garnered 42 million views, five million likes and over 300,000 bookmarks in a little under a month