• The U.S. Government Ordered ByteDance To Sell TikTok and Meta Launched a Paid Verification Program in This Week's Tech Roundup

    12 days ago - By Hypebeast

    This week, the tech industry was hit with the news of a possible impending ban on TikTok throughout the country. Late last year, Congress ruled that U.S. politicians would be forced to delete the app from their work phones. Now, a branch of the Biden administration focused on foreign investments has ordered that the app's parent company ByteDance sell TikTok, lest they institute a countrywide ban.
    Elsewhere in tech, Meta unveiled its own paid verification similar to Twitter's, charging the average user a monthly fee in exchange for a blue checkmark. And on the product side, Samsung...
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