Earlier in the day, she had been on TikTok and stumbled upon videos of people participating in the Google Maps trend, in which users reminisce over photos of their old homes taken from satellite images over the years. She decided it would be the perfect time to look up her old house.

Anna Costley told Newsweek she felt a "wave of nostalgia" when she saw her childhood home with two proud figures standing outside.

People are feeling nostalgic about their childhood homes after taking part in a new TikTok trend which sees them post a street view of their old place from Google Earth or Maps. Known as the "Google Earth trend" on the platform,

US lawmakers sent a letter to Google and Apple warning both companies to prepare to remove TikTok from the app stores.

Next month, the Supreme Court will decide whether the federal government's potential ban of TikTok violates the First Amendment. Thanks to lawmaker concern over the Chinese government getting access to American user data,

The chair and top Democrat on a U.S. House of Representatives committee on China told the CEOs of Google-parent Alphabet and Apple on Friday they must be ready to remove TikTok from their U.S. app stores on Jan.

U.S. lawmakers have issued a directive to Apple Inc. AAPL and Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG GOOGL Google to prepare for the removal of ByteDance-owned TikTok from their app stores by Jan. 19. What Happened: This move follows a federal appeals court ruling that ...

The CEOs of Google and Apple have been sent a letter by US lawmakers telling them to prepare to remove TikTok from their digital marketplaces.The letter to Apple's Tim Cook and Google's Sundar Pichai was signed by US Reps.

The planned ban, which Congress passed in April, gave TikTok nine months to sever its ties with ByteDance, its Chinese parent.

The controversy in the United States over TikTok is reaching a critical point: its withdrawal already has a deadline, and it is very soon.

The Google Earth Trend or Somewhere On Google Earth is a TikTok trend in which users find their old homes, typically from their childhoods, on Google Earth

According to experts, TikTok has several pathways for avoiding a ban, most notably intervention from the Supreme Court or the incoming Trump administration declining to enforce it. Other options, like a last-minute sale or Congress deciding to repeal the law, appear less likely.