TikTok sends out messages to U.S. subscribers, praises Trump, and then shuts down
TikTok went dark on Saturday night while telling users that it is "fortunate" that Donald Trump is working to reinstate the app. Source
TikTok went dark on Saturday night while telling users that it is "fortunate" that Donald Trump is working to reinstate the app. Source
After President Biden declined to reassure Apple, Google, and Oracle that they wouldn’t be fined for giving Americans access to TikTok, the app’s hopes now hang on President-elect Trump. Source
The switch has flipped on the TikTok ban. TikTok's app stoped working and was removed from the App Store and Google Play on Saturday night just hours before the January…
It's official: TikTok, an app used by a third of American adults, is banned in the U.S. You can probably tell by the pop-up message you see if you try…
TikTok has gone dark in the U.S., the result of a federal law that bans the popular social media app for millions of Americans — at least for now. TikTok…
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images TikTok and CapCut are going dark in the US now that the ban-or-divest law passed last year has taken effect. This is…
It looks like TikTok will be taking a holiday from the US. Source
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Brendan Hoffman, Getty Images The Supreme Court has permitted a law banning the app if Chinese parent company ByteDance doesn’t divest ownership.…
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images TikTok says it is officially going dark in the United States now that a federal ban of the app is going into…
Now you can share longer Reels, though Instagram has previously advised against it. Source
The official Pokemon TikTok account has bid farewell to its fans ahead of the video-based social media app's impending nationwide ban across the United States. With a million followers and…
Instagram is introducing a new feature to entice former TikTok users to choose it over RedNote but it's something that makes your watch history public. Source
Just one day before TikTok is expected to shut down in the US, startup Perplexity AI has submitted a bid to TikTok’s parent company ByteDance proposing a merger that would…
With a TikTok ban looming in the United States, Perplexity AI is the latest bidder hoping to give the video app a new corporate home. CNBC first reported on Perplexity’s…
Instagram is rolling out a bunch of changes this weekend that will conveniently make it look a lot more like TikTok, which now that the Supreme Court has ruled in…
CyberBust Police in England have impounded a Tesla Cybertruck that apparently made it across the Atlantic, for being "not road legal in the UK." According to a Facebook update by…
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called TikTok’s threat to “go dark” tomorrow a “stunt,” and said there is no reason that…
Bloomberg reports the contact is for Elon Musk's X social media platformxAi's Colossus uses 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPU and doesn't seem to be part of the contract Supermicro has had…
As TikTok users flood to RedNote a third app is profiting from the transition without having to do anything at all. Source
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re looking at the impacts of the looming TikTok ban in the U.S., including the “TikTok refugees” moving to Chinese app RedNote,…