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TikTok restores its service in the US after reaching an “agreement with our service providers” and thanks Donald Trump “for providing the necessary clarity” — The company said this afternoon that it is “in the process of restoring service” and thanked President-elect Trump for …
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| Avery Lotz / Axios: |
Donald Trump says he will sign an EO on Monday to delay enforcing the TikTok ban and argues for a TikTok joint venture with 50% US ownership — President-elect Trump said he will sign an executive order Monday to delay enforcing the U.S. ban on TikTok, just hours after the popular app went dark,
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
TikTok's service providers are risking billions in fines for keeping the app online, as Trump's assurances that it's safe to support TikTok are legally flimsy — Trump seems to want TikTok available for his inauguration on Monday, because “Americans deserve” to see the event.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
In a rare move, Apple publishes a statement and a document listing all ByteDance apps inaccessible in the US alongside TikTok, including Lemon8 and Lark — Amid the TikTok shutdown, in a rare move, Apple published a statement and a support document listing all affected apps that are inaccessible …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google Play and Apple's App Store still aren't offering TikTok in the US; Senator Tom Cotton warns of “ruinous liability”, as Trump says there's “no liability” — TikTok announced on Sunday that it's “in the process of restoring service,” but the app is still unavailable in the App Store and Google Play.
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| Axios: |
Melania Trump launches her own Solana coin, MELANIA, offered by MKT World, a company associated with Melania Trump; TRUMP fell ~36% on the news — It's not clear how many are on the market now. — According to the token's site, the team is only setting aside 35% for themselves …
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| Politico: |
CoinGecko: despite tanking, Trump's memecoin, with a $55B+ market cap, is the 21st most valuable cryptocurrency; some in crypto call the coin a “horrible look” — Trump's memecoin has taken off since debuting late Friday night. Not everyone in crypto is thrilled.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta unveils Edits, a video editing app coming in February on iOS and soon on Android, after app stores removed CapCut as part of the US divest-or-ban law — Meta today announced a new video editing app called Edits, after ByteDance's video editing app CapCut was removed from Apple's App Store …
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| David Marchese / New York Times: |
Q&A with Curtis Yarvin, a computer engineer and blogger whose ideas are increasingly popular with tech elites, on why democracy is bad, dictators, and more — Philip Montgomery for The New York Times — For a long time, Curtis Yarvin, a 51-year-old computer engineer …
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| Adam Kucharski / Bloomberg: |
A 2024 study of 205 randomly chosen Community Notes on X about COVID-19 vaccines found that 97% of the notes were accurate and ~50% cited high-quality sources — Crowdsourcing accuracy online is complicated. But Community Notes, when used correctly, can be a valuable tool.| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
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