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Wes Davis / The Verge:
TikTok restores its service in the US, thanking Donald Trump for “the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties”  —  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 executive order on January 20 to delay enforcing the TikTok US 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,
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
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
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Meta unveils Edits, a video editing app coming in February on iOS and later on Android, after US app stores removed CapCut 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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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
X rolls out a dedicated video tab in the US, letting users scroll through short videos, accessible via the app's bottom bar  —  Social network X is trying to capitalize on trying to capitalize on the uncertainty surrounding ByteDance apps like TikTok and Lemon8 by launching a dedicated vertical video feed.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Bluesky launches a custom feed for TikTok-style vertical videos in its mobile app, saying “we had to get in on the video action too”  —  It is the product shipping time for all social networks with TikTok's services in the restoration phase, and the app still unavailable in the App Store and the Play Store.
Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg:
Meta says it will continue to use its fact checkers outside of the US “for now”, and plans to see how its Community Notes system works in the US before deciding  —  Meta, which said it will replace third-party fact checkers in the US with a community notes system …
Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Kantar Group sells its media measurement and analytics unit Kantar Media to private equity firm HIG Capital for ~$1B  —  The media measurement and analytics company will part from parent Kantar Group  —  Market-research firm Kantar Group is selling its media measurement and analytics unit Kantar Media …
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Nielsen: the top 500 most-watched cable news shows in the US since the 2024 election on November 5 aired on Fox News  —  While the term “mainstream media” is often used as shorthand by conservative pundits as a way to talk about what they see as liberal bias in legacy media, the term misses the mark by a vast margin.
Discussion: New York Post
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Analysis: Trump chose 19 Fox News hosts, commentators, on-air experts, producers, and other personnel to work in his second administration  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump has leaned heavily on familiar faces from the cable network as he fills out his second-term cast.  —  Nineteen ... and counting.
Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Spotify's Head of Editorial Sulinna Ong, whose team curates thousands of playlists and discovers new artists to complement Spotify's algorithms  —  Spotify is known for its algorithmic recommendations, but Sulinna Ong brings a human touch to finding new hits
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Newslink, which has been aggregating and delivering content to news publishers in the UK since the 1980s, shuts down  —  A technology company that has provided secure transfer of news and images to mainly UK news publishers for decades is closing.  —  Newslink, which also trades as Wirefast …
Discussion: @palewire
 
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Max Tani / Semafor:
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