politics

The end of TikTok has begun. As the dust settles from a week of shockingly fast legislative action by the US Congress, it’s clear that TikTok next year will look much different from the TikTok we’re using today.When President Joe Biden…

I mentioned this in our first newsletter, but Representative Jeff Jackson from North Carolina had to issue a full-out YouTube-style apology video after his TikTok followers figured out he voted in support of this bill. Jackson’s posted…

A number of elected officials, including New York City Mayor Eric Adams, law enforcement officers, right-wing media outlets, and far-right extremists have boosted a baseless conspiracy theory that Jewish Hungarian billionaire George…

Leah Feiger: And I trust, baby.Vittoria Elliott: But if it does happen, what bank will give him money after seeing what he did to Twitter?Leah Feiger: If he tweets about it, though, in the next week or a half, Tori, you're going to have…

On Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed a law that could effectively ban TikTok if the company does not divest from its Chinese owner ByteDance in the next twelve months. But the law, which sped through the House and Senate, could face…

The US Senate passed a bill late Tuesday that allows the government to ban TikTok within a year if it doesn’t make meaningful progress toward separating from its China-based owner, ByteDance. President Joe Biden said in a statement after…

On Tuesday, the Senate passed a massive foreign aid package that included an ultimatum for TikTok: Divest or be banned from operating within the US. The package was approved by the House of Representatives on Saturday, and President Joe…

A TikTok ban is back on the table after the House approved a new bill on Saturday addressing the issues that stalled it out in the Senate.The bill would allow the Biden administration to ban TikTok nationwide if it doesn’t divest from…

Team Trump might also struggle to reach its usual base this year, meaning they’ll need to rely on alternatives. Earlier this week, The Atlantic reported that traffic belonging to the top 10 conservative and right-wing news sites has gone…

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