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Oracle reportedly in talks to acquire TikTok

Oracle has held preliminary talks with ByteDance, TikTok‘s Chinese owner, about acquiring the social media sensation’s operations in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the Financial Times reported late Monday. Microsoft is also in talks to buy up the TikTok app from ByteDance. TikTok is a wildly popular social media app where people, mostly teens …

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Facebook, who’s buying hate speech ads? Congress members ask

Facebook is under scrutiny from US Reps. Keith Ellison and John Conyers.  The two Democrats wrote a letter to the social media company on Wednesday asking that it update its policies regarding hate speech. They also asked Facebook to clarify who buys ads on its site and to make all Facebook ads publicly available. Ellison of Minnesota and Conyers of Michigan …

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