The biggest flex on the internet right now is showing off screenshots of a carefully curated aesthetic iOS 14 home screen. We don’t make the rules. The teens on TikTok do. When iOS 14 was released to the public last week, many people at first couldn’t see much that was new with the latest version …
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A federal judge is expected to decide on Sunday morning whether to allow the US government to ban new downloads of TikTok in the Apple and Google app stores. The ban would take effect later that same day at 11:59 p.m. ET unless it’s blocked. The US Justice Department had until Friday to either delay the ban or file legal …
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TikTok will implement a new policy cracking down on advertisements for dietary fasting and weight loss supplements, the company said Wednesday. While the new policies don’t altogether ban ads for weight loss products, they limit the scope and restrict certain messaging in the ads. The move comes just weeks after a cybersecurity report found scammers were purchasing ads on TikTok, …
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Pinterest is testing a tool that allows certain people to post a series of photos and videos that include text, music or voiceovers. “As we look to the future, we’ve decided it’s time to push our mission to inspire even further. It’s time to do more than connect people to what inspires them,” Evan Sharp, Pinterest’s co-founder who leads design efforts …
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TikTok removed more than 104 million videos from its platform during the first half of 2020, according to the company’s latest transparency report, released Tuesday. TikTok said that’s less than 1% of all videos uploaded to the popular app between Jan. 1 and June 30. The update comes as TikTok’s fate in the US remains in jeopardy, pending the finalization …
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A deal for Oracle and Walmart to acquire stakes in the US operations of popular video app TikTok appeared in jeopardy as details of the complicated arrangement were disputed. President Donald Trump said on Monday that he would revoke his initial approval of the deal if ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, retained a stake in a newly created company that would house the US …
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A US judge early Sunday temporarily blocked a Trump administration order requiring Apple and Google to remove the Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat from their app stores. US Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler in San Francisco said in an order that WeChat users who filed a lawsuit “have shown serious questions going to the merits of the First Amendment claim, the balance …
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TikTok and parent company ByteDance filed a new lawsuit late Friday to try to block the Trump administration’s ban of US downloads of the popular TikTok short-video app. The suit, filed in federal court in Washington, DC, says the administration overstepped its bounds and violated free speech when it decided earlier Friday to go ahead with the download ban, which …
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he isn’t yet ready to sign off on a deal between short-form video app TikTok and technology giant Oracle, saying that he needs to make sure the arrangement addresses national security concerns about the app. “I’m not prepared to sign off on anything,” Trump told a press briefing at the White House, adding that …
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The Trump administration’s looming ban on WeChat won’t target people who use or download the Chinese-owned app, the administration said in a filing Wednesday. The government’s filing came in response to a lawsuit filed in August by a group of WeChat users who aren’t affiliated with the company behind the app and argued that President Donald Trump’s ban is unconstitutional. …
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