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8:55 PM ET, January 19, 2025

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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 JV 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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Wes Davis / The Verge:
TikTok says it's restoring its service in the US after reaching an “agreement with our service providers” and thanks 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 …
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
TikTok is not available for download on the App Store and Play Store in the US as the divest-or-ban law takes effect  —  Apple and Google removed TikTok from their app stores Saturday night, complying with a law requiring China's ByteDance to divest the social app or see it face an effective ban in the U.S.
Ana Faguy / BBC:
The White House says TikTok's threat to shut down is a “stunt” as there is “no reason for TikTok or other companies to take actions” before Trump takes office  —  The White House has said a warning by TikTok it will shut down in the US on Sunday unless tech firms …
Nitish Pahwa / Slate:
The messy TikTok saga in the US over the past five years has shown that lawmakers are as spineless and skittish as everyone suspects them to be  —  Well, that escalated slowly over the course of four years.  —  It is 2020.  The United States government threatens to forbid access …
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Kevin Roose / New York Times:
As the TikTok eulogies pour in from some creators, very few Americans seem concerned that one of the nation's most popular social media apps will disappear
Politico:
Congressional leaders seem flummoxed by the growing popularity of RedNote and Lemon8, an unintended consequence of the TikTok ban
The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at efforts by Meta, YouTube, Snap, X, and Substack to attract TikTok's 170M US creators and users; Substack is offering a $25K “TikTok Liberation Prize”
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Meta unveils Edits, a video editing app coming next month on iOS and soon on Android, after CapCut is removed from app stores as part of the 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 …
Diana Moskovitz / Defector:
The Los Angeles fires showed that local news saves lives, and the US needs a nationwide effort to save local news  —  During the first week of the fires, I would go up to my building's roof once a day.  I'd look at the Los Angeles skyline at whatever shade of yellow-orange-brown muck the fires …
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Britain's Independent Media Group secures over $700K for the next 18 months from the Gates Foundation to fund journalism in “under reported” parts of the world  —  It has given British media group more than $700,000 to fund journalism in ‘under reported’ parts of the world
Ayman Oghanna / Columbia Journalism Review:
A freelance journalist describes covering conflicts while struggling with bipolar disorder and addiction, in an industry that poorly acknowledges mental illness  —  There are many journalists hiding from the stigma of mental health, addiction, or both, trying not to appear as damaged goods and to keep on working.
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
London Live, the local TV channel owned by the London Standard chairman, Evgeny Lebedev, will stop broadcasting after a little over a decade of mounting losses  —  Station was crown jewel of Jeremy Hunt's strategy to populate the UK with dozens of local TV stations
 
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