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Bobby Allyn / NPR: Source: TikTok will sue the Trump administration over the executive order banning the service, as soon as Tuesday — TikTok is planning to sue the Trump administration … -
Russell Brandom / The Verge: Trump signs an executive order to block all transactions with ByteDance and WeChat starting Sept. 20, just 5 days after Microsoft's deadline to acquire TikTok -
Washington Post: Inside the efforts to sell TikTok as Trump keeps sending contradictory signals, amid shouting matches between Mnuchin and Navarro in the Oval Office -
New York Times: Intelligence agencies don't see TikTok as a major security issue, see the claimed risks as largely theoretical, and view companies like Huawei as larger threats -
Sheila Dang / Reuters: In a memo to advertisers, TikTok says it will refund ad campaigns it can't fulfill due to a US ban and will work with influencers to migrate to other platforms -
Steven Levy / Wired: Interview with Bill Gates on COVID-19, Trump, last week's antitrust meeting, Mark Zuckerberg, misinformation, and the “poison chalice” of the TikTok deal -
Steven Levy / Wired: An inside look at Hawkfish, a Mike Bloomberg-funded tech company that helped his 2020 campaign, which is still working behind the scenes to help elect Joe Biden -
Olivia Solon / NBC News: Internal docs: Facebook removed “strikes” so that at least 2 conservative pages, from PragerU and Diamond & Silk, dodged penalties under misinformation policies -
30 minutes ago Wall Street Journal: A presentation that's been circulating around DC shows Qualcomm is lobbying the Trump administration for permission to sell its chips for Huawei's 5G phones -
Elamin Abdelmahmoud / BuzzFeed News: Companies like Facebook and Twitter, which have positioned themselves as the new public square, should absolutely be questioned on their role in cancel culture -
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Facebook formally open-sourced Pysa, a static analyzer tool for Python code, which detected 44% of all security bugs in Instagram's server-side code in H1 2020 -
Sponsor Post Oura: What is your “Readiness Score?” — How does the Oura ring take your body's vital signs and generate personalized, daily health recommendations? -
Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: John Giannandrea and Bob Borchers talk about why Apple is best positioned to “lead the industry” in building machine intelligence-driven features and products -
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: Reddit says it is investigating after hackers deface more than a dozen subreddits, including some with millions of subscribers, to post pro-Trump messages