Showing posts with label TikTok. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TikTok. Show all posts
Friday, November 6, 2026
Meta, TikTok, Google sue to block California teen social media law championed by Newsom - POLITICO
“Platforms would rather sue the state than lean into what California families overwhelmingly want. It’s just a continuation of big tech’s fight to addict children for profit,” he said in a text message. “As disappointing as this development is, I do trust the courts will put children’s safety over corporate greed.”…
Saturday, October 10, 2026
Trump Vowed to Wall Off TikTok From China. Did He? - POLITICO
New details from inside TikTok US suggest notable operational ties remain to its former Beijing-based parent company…
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/10/09/tiktok-trump-deal-us-china-01093142
Monday, April 6, 2026
#MilitaryTok reactions to Iran war stray from White House messaging: ‘Now I’m regretting everything’
After it failed to meet recruitment goals in 2022, experts worried about the future of the US armed forces. But by 2025 the military had exceeded its recruiting goals. Trump and Hegseth take credit but it started during Biden's presidency – and women, not men, led the surge. (In 2024, women's recruitment increased 18%, while men saw an 8% bump.) Experts credit an advertisement blitz and the creation of a course that helps aspiring service members get test scores up and body weight down.
Still, gen Z has a less-than-favorable view of the military; a Department of Defense poll found that positive attitudes toward the armed forces among the cohort dropped from 46% in 2016 to 35% in 2021. A more recent poll from March conducted by SocialSphere's Gen Z Tracker, an opinion research consultancy, found that 34% of gen Z recipients strongly opposed war in Iran; only 9% strongly supported it.
Today's 18-year-olds were born in 2008. It's not difficult to see why a younger generation of service members that has known nearly endless American war might indulge in unfiltered posting. As one army member, shown throwing her patrol cap down in anger, posted to TikTok: "POV: you believed ur recruiter, now u regretting everything."…
Sunday, March 15, 2026
Trump administration to be paid $10bn for brokering TikTok deal
A government taking a transactional fee for a deal between private businesses is exceptionally rare and the $10bn amount appears much larger than the roughly 1% slice that investment bankers take in such circumstances. JD Vance has said the US version of TikTok is valued at about $14bn, meaning the fee taken by the government is closer to 70% of the deal...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/14/tiktok-trump-administration-10bn
Friday, March 6, 2026
Public Integrity Project sues Trump, Bondi over TikTok sale : NPR
"By flaunting the law so publicly, I think the president is trying to send a message that he is quite literally beyond the reach of the courts, beyond the reach of Congress, beyond the reach of the rule of law," said Brendan Ballou, chief executive at The Public Integrity Project, the new nonpartisan firm. "And we want to make sure that he isn't."…
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/05/g-s1-112605/tiktok-deal-lawsuit-trump-bondi
Saturday, January 24, 2026
5 things to know about the TikTok deal - POLITICO
The deal is intended to insulate the social media company from influence by China, avoiding a ban that Congress had mandated in 2024...
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/22/5-things-to-know-about-the-tiktok-deal-00743316
How the TikTok deal could tighten Trump’s cultural grip - POLITICO
"We've seen the platform transfer from one set of owners, where there was one set of concerns about propaganda and privacy, to a new set of owners, where now there's a new set of concerns about propaganda and privacy," said Evan Greer, director of the progressive tech group Fight for the Future...
Saturday, September 27, 2025
The TikTok deal puts even more media in the hands of the super-rich
The former US labor secretary Robert Reich described the situation plainly, writing this week on the platform formerly known as Twitter: "The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns the Washington Post."…
Friday, August 22, 2025
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Putin is invading more than Ukraine – POLITICO
But Putin's aggression is focused on the U.S. and all its allies. He's spending millions of dollars, bombarding European voters with manipulative social media and disinformation campaigns on a mass scale. It's a new type of warfare on democracy that eliminates the need to roll tanks into capitals.
Putin's constantly evolving playbook is the result of his failed military campaign to capture Kyiv and strangle Ukrainian democracy. He ran into Ukraine's indominable resilience, and as a result, he began deploying a long-standing Russian (and Soviet) strategy to destroy Western democracies from within by supporting and cultivating pro-Putin political candidates. And TikTok, Telegram and other social media channels are now weapons in this new kind of war…
Unfortunately, too many people who should know better are still cozying up to Putin, backing his pro-Russian candidates and undermining the security of the U.S. and other democratic allies. Elon Musk protégé Mario Nawfal was in Moscow in May, while tech billionaire Elon Musk's father and controversial American right-wing commentators Jackson Hinkle and Alex Jones attended the Future 2050 forum in Moscow in June. Speaking at the forum were numerous Putin allies: right-wing Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov and former president Dmitry Medvedev…
Friday, January 31, 2025
US-born teenager murdered by father in Pakistan over TikTok content
Anwar ul-Haq confessed to shooting his 15-year-old daughter after she continued with her 'objectionable' posts…
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Trump’s TikTok Bailout Is Worse Than It Looks - POLITICO
The TikTok ban was supposed to be a critical national security response to the threat posed by the Chinese government and its control over an app with 170 million users in our country. Shortly before the law went into effect, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said in a speech on the Senate floor that "without question, TikTok's lethal algorithm has cost the lives of many American kids." He announced that there would "be no extensions, no concessions and no compromises for TikTok."…
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/28/trump-tiktok-bailout-00200800
Saturday, January 25, 2025
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Chinese officials reportedly discuss sale of TikTok in US to Elon Musk
Chinese officials have reportedly held preliminary talks about a potential option to sell TikTok's operations in the US to the billionaire Elon Musk, should the short-video app be unable to avoid an impending ban...
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Monday, April 29, 2024
🚨 Obama aide drops BAD NEWS on Marjorie Taylor Greene
INTERVIEW: Brian interviews Pod Save America co-host Tommy Vietor about the passage of foreign aid, how it’s impacted Marjorie Taylor Greene’s standing, and the implications of TikTok’s possible ban in the US.
Weekly Roundup: The Week 2024 Became 1968 (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)
This week was the end of the first act. The point in the story when all the players, themes, issues, histories, and institutions that will determine the rest of the season come into focus. It’s not the end. It’s not even close. But it’s the time when we see who and what will guide the journey.
Brad and Dan begin by discussing the weight of the Trump hush money trial on Trump’s ability to campaign – and project an image of bravado and control. They then go into the abortion case at SCOTUS, focusing on the grotesque nature of the discussion on women’s health and bodies, and how this will weigh on voters in November. Brad hones in on the Ukraine/Israel/Taiwan aid package, commenting on how Biden touted it as a bipartisan win, but observing that the student uprisings at Columbia, Yale, USC, and all over the country portend a hard road ahead for Democrats with Gen Z. He finished by analyzing what the TikTok ban means and why it might be a Trojan Horse in the aid package.
Interview:
Brad and Dan begin by discussing the weight of the Trump hush money trial on Trump’s ability to campaign – and project an image of bravado and control. They then go into the abortion case at SCOTUS, focusing on the grotesque nature of the discussion on women’s health and bodies, and how this will weigh on voters in November. Brad hones in on the Ukraine/Israel/Taiwan aid package, commenting on how Biden touted it as a bipartisan win, but observing that the student uprisings at Columbia, Yale, USC, and all over the country portend a hard road ahead for Democrats with Gen Z. He finished by analyzing what the TikTok ban means and why it might be a Trojan Horse in the aid package.
Interview:
Monday, April 22, 2024
TikTok fears point to larger problem: Poor media literacy in the social media age
"The deeper problem is not that the Chinese government can easily manipulate content on the app. It is, rather, that people think it is OK to get their news from social media in the first place. In other words, the real national security vulnerability is that people have acquiesced to informing themselves through social media.
Social media is not made to inform people. It is designed to capture consumer attention for the sake of advertisers..."
Friday, March 29, 2024
Catch and Kill (Allison Gill and Pete Strzok; Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcast episode #166)
This week: 
- one Trump lawyer gets arrested for a warrant while in court and another gets admonished by the judge for misrepresenting the facts surrounding document production from SDNY;
- Trump’s hush money/election interference/false business records trial is set for Jury selection on April 15th;
- Trump’s bond was reduced from around $500 million to $175 million and several other orders were stayed pending his appeal in the NYAG civil fraud case;
- TikTok investor gives Trump a big wealth infusion through Truth Social;
- Congressional Republicans are in such disarray that George Santos will run as an Independent,
- and more.
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