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Her fans call her Heidi. She is 36 years old. She talks a mile a minute. She has a tattoo of the Polish-German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg on her left arm and a million followers across TikTok and Instagram. She was relatively unknown in German politics until January, but as of Sunday, she’s a political force….
Apple and Google restored TikTok to their app stores in the United States on Thursday evening, several weeks after they removed the short-form video platform in compliance with a new law that banned it in the country. President Trump tried to pause enforcement of the TikTok ban with an executive order, but the companies were…
Leah Barlow, a liberal studies professor at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, prepared to teach her Intro to African American Studies class this semester as she always does: She put together a syllabus, mapped out assignments and created a TikTok account to make the material as accessible as possible. She posted a video…
TikTok continues to be on shaky ground in the United States. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court upheld a law passed by Congress last year that required a ban of the Chinese-owned app unless it was sold to a government-approved buyer. Hours before the law took effect, TikTok went dark briefly, then flickered back to…
President Trump’s blunt message after a whirlwind week of executive orders and presidential proclamations may boil down to this: Take me at my word. During four years in political exile after his first term, Mr. Trump vowed to radically reshape American life, culture and politics if he got another chance. His first week has demonstrated…
Sarah Jornsay-Silverberg, who lives in Lisbon and owns a graphic design business, said writing parody songs is a longtime passion of hers, and she often pens tunes to honor friends and family for big life events. Among her greatest hits is “My Dad Lee” to the tune of “Let It Be,” which she performed for…
For more than six years, Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud computing company, provided technical support to deliver TikTok videos to tens of millions of Americans. But over the weekend, Amazon faced a dilemma. A new law was taking effect banning TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, in the United States. Tech companies…
Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube | iHeartRadio This week, TikTok died, came back to life — and now exists in a kind of limbo state. We break down what that may signal for how tech does business with the new Trump administration. Then we pump up the fun…
President Trump signed an executive order on Monday to delay enforcing a federal ban of TikTok for at least 75 days, even though the law took effect on Sunday and it is unclear that such a move could override it. The order, one of Mr. Trump’s first acts after taking office, instructs the attorney general…
Many tech leaders and companies have courted President-elect Donald J. Trump in recent weeks. From Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg to Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos, they have visited Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago, flattered him on X and donated to his inaugural fund. But TikTok has taken those methods to the next level. As the Chinese-owned social app…
