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A 19-year-old was arrested early today after allegedly setting fire to a mall in response to the TikTok ban, police say. The mall includes an office of a congressman who's been critical of TikTok: nytimes.com/2025/01/19/us/…

TikTok restored service to the app on Sunday with some help from President-elect Donald Trump, who's pledged to extend a deadline to sell the company once he takes office. But it won't be so simple. Alexandra S. Levine has the latest trib.al/rvBx6Xx

MrBeast, the internet's most-followed and highest-earning content creator, has joined a new bid to buy TikTok. He's part of a group of American investors assembled by tech founder Jesse Tinsley that's vying to buy TikTok's U.S. biz before a possible ban: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Bloomberg reviewed +1K hours of YouTube vids from 9 popular streamers and podcasters who cater to American men. We analyzed 2 yrs of guests and transcripts to see how they discussed political topics and understand their role as a new mainstream info hub bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-…

General Atlantic CEO Bill Ford — a ByteDance board member and one of its most influential investors — told Bloomberg today that ByteDance is exploring a deal to keep TikTok running in the US without selling its US operations: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Oracle helped put TikTok back online. Apple and Google notably did not. Why the diverging approach to the TikTok law? Larry Ellison's ties to Trump and Musk—and Oracle's lucrative, longstanding relationship with TikTok—likely played a role. w/ Brody Ford bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

One thing being missed in a lot of the TikTok chatter around who's in talks to buy what is: It's still *totally unclear* how ByteDance and Beijing are thinking about these proposals -- and whether they're even entertaining them. Here's where things stand:bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

I’ve spent the past year+ working on a book about TikTok. It’s out in September. Pre-order now!! everyscreenontheplanet.com

Trump's proposal to put TikTok in a sovereign wealth fund: "We're going to be doing something, perhaps, with TikTok. And perhaps, not. If we make the right deal, we'll do it. Otherwise, we won't. ... And we might put that in the sovereign wealth fund."bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says on earnings that uncertainty around TikTok has overall been a plus for the biz -- pushing creators to re-evaluate where to build audiences, and advertisers to seek out stable alternatives and ways to diversify their strategies: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

YouTube is running ads on TikTok to lure creators to the Google-owned rival. Google plays an unusual role in this saga-- it runs one of two app stores controlling whether people can download TikTok here, while it ALSO stands to win big if TikTok goes away:bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

BREAKING: Apple to bring back TikTok to the U.S. App Store today following a letter from Trump AG Pam Bondi, sources tell me. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

BREAKING: Apple is relisting TikTok on its US app store tonight. Scoop from Mark Gurman Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Must-read story from Julia Love. Elon Musk has repeatedly posted about the dangers of letting unauthorized people into the country. But it turns out undocumented immigrants have helped build Tesla and SpaceX.

BREAKING: Apple is pulling its end-to-end encryption feature — Advanced Data Protection — in the UK, in a stunning development after the government ordered the company to build a backdoor to user data. Apple is not complying. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Scoop: TikTok projects that TikTok Live could generate $77 billion a year globally by 2027, according to a newly unsealed lawsuit brought against the company in Washington. The financials, from a AG Brian Schwalb complaint, haven't been previously reported:bloomberg.com/news/articles/…