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TikTok is having a monster 2020

The Verge

Here are Katie Roof and Zheping Huang in Bloomberg : The company owes much of its success to TikTok , now the online repository of choice for lip-synching and dance videos by American teens. The theory originated on an anonymous conservative blog. Two, TikTok keeps finding new users. Ben Collins / NBC).

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Mark Zuckerberg on why he doesn’t want to “put an Apple Watch on your face”

The Verge

A conservative group is paying teenagers to pump out messaging in support of President Trump on Facebook and Twitter. Teen girls are dominating TikTok , going from zero followers to hundreds of thousands in a matter of days. Ben Thompson wrote a widely read post on why he thought VR would be smaller than AR in 2018.

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Trump’s latest attack on Section 230 is really about censoring speech

The Verge

Why does Twitter leave phony pictures like this up, but take down Republican/Conservative pictures and statements that are true?” Joe Biden’s campaign is taking over a popular Instagram account created by a teen supporter. the president wanted to know. Mitch must fight back and repeal Section 230, immediately.

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Why TikTok may not survive being sold

The Verge

America’s two hottest teen tech brands, Microsoft and Walmart, are teaming up for a bid. The Daily Wire, the conservative blog started by Ben Shapiro, was the top publisher on Facebook in July 2020. But there’s still the question of who will own TikTok, and today an odd new challenger appeared. Urban Outfitters Inc. Cargill Inc.

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How to think about polarization on Facebook

The Verge

The company gave them a variety of executives to speak with on and off the record, including Joel Kaplan, its vice president of global public policy, who often pops up in stories like this to complain that some action might disproportionately hurt conservatives. One is an internal tension in the way Facebook thinks about polarization.