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TikTok Owner Admits Employees Accessed Data of U.S. Users and Journalists
ByteDance, the parent company behind TikTok, admitted this week a handful of its employees, some based in China, inappropriately accessed TikTok data of U.S. users and two journalists when conducting an investigation attempting to snuff out the source of a damning leak.
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Facebook and Instagram Say They will Remove All News If Congress Makes Them Pay for It
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, drew a line in the sand Tuesday, saying it adamantly opposes a proposed law that would allow newspapers to bargain collectively with social media companies for more ad money in exchange for content. Allowing such a thing would create a “cartel-like entity,” the company claimed.
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New Report Seems to Confirm the Worst Fears About How TikTok Uses Data
A team at TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance planned to harness data from the app to “monitor the personal location of some specific American citizens,” according to an explosive report published in Forbes Thursday.
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The Try Guys Try Cutting off a Co-Founder
The YouTube comedy quartet The Try Guys has now become a trio, say its remaining members Eugene Lee Yang, Zach Kornfeld, Keith Habersberger. In a video posted to their YouTube channel yesterday, the three, who ranged in emotion from rage to tears, also confirmed that Ned Fulmer, the fourth member of the Try Guys, had…