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TikTok’s CEO: I Didn’t Sign Up for This Shit

Four months ago, Kevin Mayer was running Disney+ and only had to worry about cashing checks. But in May he decided to take a giant leap and become the CEO of social media behemoth TikTok. In his short tenure, all hell broke loose at the company, and on Wednesday, Mayer informed employees that he’d be…

Tech News Rhett Jones Aug 27

Opportunism, Thy Name Is Zuckerberg

Despite being at the center of at least one massive antitrust probe while fielding regulatory pressure from right- and left-leaning pundits alike, Facebook’s spent the last few months doing a whole lot of nothing to tweak the monopolistic business practices that landed it in hot water with regulators in the first place. Instead, its strategy is…

Social Media Shoshana Wodinsky Aug 24

Mods? MODS!?: Facebook’s QAnon Ban Is Too Little Too Late

Content and moderation decisions by tech companies are increasingly the focus of unending kicking and screaming—to the point where it’s now essentially a campaign plank for at least one of the U.S.’s major political parties. The likes of Facebook, Twitter, and Google are also trying to convince the public how well they’re dealing with the…

Internet Tom McKay Aug 21

Trump Wants to Build a Wall Around the Internet. How Worried Should We Be?

Early this month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the “Clean Network” plan, a trade offensive aiming to cut Chinese tech companies off from United States consumers. Before a numb and beleaguered public could wrap its head around such a plan, Trump dispatched a pair of chaotic executive orders effectively aiming to ban TikTok and…

Tech Policy Whitney Kimball Aug 18

Tiktok’s Latest Suitor Is Oracle, a Company With Close Ties To CIA and NSA

Oracle has expressed interest in buying TikTok from Chinese-based tech company Bytedance according to a new report from the Financial Times. The move comes after President Donald Trump’s threat to ban the popular video app. The Trump regime is allegedly concerned about the privacy of Americans on TikTok and the ways that the Chinese government…

Tech News Matt Novak Aug 18

Donald Trump, the ‘Professional at Technology,’ Is Now on TikTok Rival Triller

In case we needed further proof that President Donald Trump really does not like TikTok, here’s the latest: Trump and his team have created a verified account on TikTok rival Triller, and are apparently trying to figure out how video-sharing apps work. It appears that Trump’s account was created on Saturday, one day after Trump…

Tech News Jody Serrano Aug 16

Trump Extends TikTok’s Sell-By Date to 90 Days, Cites ‘Credible Evidence’ of Security Risk

President Donald Trump has given TikTok’s parent company, Bytedance, 90 days to find a buyer for the app’s U.S. operations, stating in an executive order on Friday that there’s “credible evidence” that the Chinese tech giant “might take action that threatens to impair the national security of the United States.” The White House has repeatedly…

Tech News Alyse Stanley Aug 15

Report: TikTok Collected Persistent IDs From Android Phones in Apparent Violation of Google Policy

TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app that Donald Trump’s administration is incoherently threatening to ban from the U.S. and may be gearing up for a court fight in response, quietly collected persistent identifiers from Android devices for 15 months, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. According to the Journal, an analysis of numerous…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Aug 11

Haunted by Regret Over Killing Vine, Twitter Purportedly Eyes Acquiring TikTok

While we’re all waiting to see if Microsoft succeeds in striking a deal to buy TikTok, bam! Surprise! Another big tech company, although not nearly as big as Microsoft, has apparently entered the fray, saying that it too is interested in arguably one of the hottest apps currently on the market. That company is purportedly…

Tech News Jody Serrano Aug 9

TikTok Plans to Take Trump’s Ass to Court Over Ban: Report

TikTok will file a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration as soon as Tuesday to dispute the president’s recent executive order banning the widely popular video-sharing app over national security concerns, a person directly involved in the suit told NPR under the condition of anonymity. The lawsuit will reportedly contend that President Donald Trump’s order…

Tech News Alyse Stanley Aug 8

Trump’s Orders to Ban WeChat and TikTok About as Coherent as His Other Policies

The Trump administration’s battle against the imminent threat of Chinese apps finally reached a head late Thursday night when President Trump issued two executive orders—one against TikTok and the other against the popular social messaging app Wechat—essentially issuing a blanket ban on both of these companies’ US-based operations within the next 45 days. And just…

Tech Policy Shoshana Wodinsky Aug 7

It Doesn’t Matter Who Owns TikTok

When Microsoft officially emerged as the frontrunner for a potential acquisition of the teen-fave-turned-national-security-concern TikTok earlier this week, tech critics ‘round the globe found themselves with an endless set of questions that seemingly nobody could answer. Why would a company as corporate as Microsoft be throwing its hat into the tweenage market? Did President Donald…

Privacy & Security Shoshana Wodinsky Aug 6

Senate Moves to Ban TikTok on Government Phones

The U.S. Senate passed a bill on Thursday prohibiting federal workers from downloading TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app the White House has recently threatened to ban citing national security concerns. The ban, which specifically applies to government devices, was approved via unanimous consent. (There was no vote, but no senator objected to its passing.) A…

Politics Dell Cameron Aug 6

White House at a Total Fucking Loss to Explain Trump’s TikTok Shakedown

No one in the White House has any idea what the fuck Donald Trump was talking about when he suggested that the U.S. Treasury should get a slice of any deal for Microsoft to buy TikTok. The Trump administration has threatened to ban TikTok in the U.S., possibly by putting it on a Commerce Department…

Tech News Tom McKay Aug 4

Trump Demands Microsoft Pay Off the U.S. Treasury to Secure TikTok Deal

Donald Trump is demanding the U.S. government somehow get a juicy cut of any deal for Microsoft to buy Chinese-owned video app TikTok—or else. TikTok is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, which over the past year has triggered concerns that the Chinese government could order the firm to assist it in espionage against the app’s estimated…

Tech News Tom McKay Aug 3

Bytedance, Microsoft Offer Acquisition Deal After Trump Mentions Upcoming TikTok Ban [Updated]

Update: 8/1/2020, 1:41 p.m. ET: Per a Saturday Reuters report, TikTok’s parent company Bytedance has agreed to full transparency with the U.S. government and offered to divest its U.S. operations of TikTok completely if it’ll keep President Donald Trump from banning the app, according to two people familiar with the matter. Under this deal, Bytedance,…

Tech News Alyse Stanley Jul 31

Microsoft Reportedly Looking to Buy TikTok as Trump Admin Edges Closer to Crackdown

After what seems like a lifetime of political flak and negative media attention, the China-based company ByteDance might finally surrender ownership of TikTok in the United States. This afternoon, Fox Business Network correspondent Charles Gasparino tweeted, and Bloomberg reported, that Donald Trump plans to order Bytedance to divest from the U.S. portion of TikTok based…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Jul 31

As 2020 Spirals Into the Abyss, TikTok Teens Are Reaching Into Their Past Lives

Legend holds that there are seasons and locations where the spiritual veil is thinnest, a passage for restless spirits to cross into the mortal realm. Because we can’t visit Stonehenge on Midsummer’s Eve, the next best thing for homebound seekers is TikTok, where witches rule, and thousands flock in search of an escape from the…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Jul 29

TikTok Starts $200 Million Fund to Finally Start Paying Creators

TikTok is an app at the center of national scrutiny here in the U.S. and abroad, an app beloved by witches and convicted felons alike, an app that’s recently been accused of hooking children up with local drug cartels. It’s also an app that recently announced it would be launching a $200 million funding pool for…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky Jul 23

The House Votes to Ban TikTok from Government-Issued Devices, TikTok Threatens to Create Jobs

Adding to TikTok’s litany of woes, the House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to prevent government employees from installing TikTok on government-issued devices—inching closer toward the transnational goal of eradicating the Chinese-owned company from the face of the earth. TikTok clapped back with the announcement that it’s going to add a ton of jobs to the U.S.…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Jul 21

TikTok’s CEO: I Didn’t Sign Up for This Shit

Opportunism, Thy Name Is Zuckerberg

Mods? MODS!?: Facebook’s QAnon Ban Is Too Little Too Late

Trump Wants to Build a Wall Around the Internet. How Worried Should We Be?

Tiktok’s Latest Suitor Is Oracle, a Company With Close Ties To CIA and NSA

Donald Trump, the ‘Professional at Technology,’ Is Now on TikTok Rival Triller

Trump Extends TikTok’s Sell-By Date to 90 Days, Cites ‘Credible Evidence’ of Security Risk

Report: TikTok Collected Persistent IDs From Android Phones in Apparent Violation of Google Policy

Haunted by Regret Over Killing Vine, Twitter Purportedly Eyes Acquiring TikTok

TikTok Plans to Take Trump’s Ass to Court Over Ban: Report

Trump’s Orders to Ban WeChat and TikTok About as Coherent as His Other Policies

It Doesn’t Matter Who Owns TikTok

Senate Moves to Ban TikTok on Government Phones

White House at a Total Fucking Loss to Explain Trump’s TikTok Shakedown

Trump Demands Microsoft Pay Off the U.S. Treasury to Secure TikTok Deal

Bytedance, Microsoft Offer Acquisition Deal After Trump Mentions Upcoming TikTok Ban [Updated]

Microsoft Reportedly Looking to Buy TikTok as Trump Admin Edges Closer to Crackdown

As 2020 Spirals Into the Abyss, TikTok Teens Are Reaching Into Their Past Lives

TikTok Starts $200 Million Fund to Finally Start Paying Creators

The House Votes to Ban TikTok from Government-Issued Devices, TikTok Threatens to Create Jobs

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