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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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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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
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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 …
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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
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
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Kevin Hart has stepped in as CEO of his media company, Hartbeat, following layoffs and the departures of two CEOs over 15 months — Hart has stepped in as CEO of his company after cycling through two leaders in 15 months
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: the News Media Alliance has been assembling a copyright infringement case against a “major AI company” and will likely announce it in the coming weeks — The Scoop — The key Washington lobbying group for news organizations and publishers is gearing up for legal action …
Arlene Getz / Committee to Protect Journalists:
China, Israel, and Myanmar were the world's leading jailers of journalists in 2024; Israel rarely appeared in CPJ's annual prison census before the Hamas attack — Download PDF — China, Israel, and Myanmar emerged as the world's three worst offenders in another record-setting year …
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