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Trump plans to sign a TikTok deal on Thursday; source: TikTok US would be run by a new joint venture company, with ByteDance holding less than 20% of its stock (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-tiktok-deal-sale-china-rcna2335…

Trump expected to sign a TikTok deal on Thursday
President Donald Trump on Thursday is expected to sign a deal to facilitate the sale of TikTok from a Chinese-based company to a group of American investors, two senior White House officials told NBC News

Trump plans to sign a TikTok deal on Thursday; source: TikTok US would be run by a new joint venture company, with ByteDance holding less than 20% of its stock (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-tiktok-deal-sale-china-rcna2335…

Trump expected to sign a TikTok deal on Thursday
President Donald Trump on Thursday is expected to sign a deal to facilitate the sale of TikTok from a Chinese-based company to a group of American investors, two senior White House officials told NBC News

Laut Bertelsmann-Studie sind TikTok & Instagram wichtigste Politikquellen junger Menschen. Früher Pflichtlektüre: Zeitung. Heute Pflicht: Reels & Clips. Ein Weckruf: Früher prägten Leitartikel, heute bestimmen Algorithmen, welche 30-Sekunden-Clip ausgespielt werden. Und was diese Algorithmen favorisieren und belohnen, wissen wir ja.
Studie der Bertelsmann Stiftung: #TikTok und

Studie der Bertelsmann Stiftung: TikTok und Instagram sind wichtigste Politik-Kanäle für junge Menschen
Politische Kommunikation mit der Generation U30 findet vor allem bei TikTok und Instagram statt, konstatieren Forscher. Dort gelten besondere Regeln.

»Mögliche Verstöße gegen Digitalgesetz Facebook, Instagram und TikTok droht EU #Strafe:
Die Plattformen #Facebook, #Instagram und

Mögliche Verstöße gegen Digitalgesetz: Facebook, Instagram und TikTok droht EU-Strafe
Die Plattformen Facebook, Instagram und TikTok gehen nicht transparent genug mit ihren Daten um – zu dem Schluss kommen vorläufige Ermittlungen der EU-Kommission. Und das ist nicht der einzige Vorwurf.

Internal memo: TikTok plans leadership changes, moving two teams under ByteDance veteran Fiona Zhi and undoing earlier efforts to empower Western executives (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-revamps-m…

TikTok Empowers Chinese Executives in Management Revamp
TikTok is implementing drastic leadership changes that pull the video app closer to the orbit of its parent ByteDance, just as Washington and Beijing are on the cusp of reaching a deal over the app’s future in the U.S. TikTok’s global content and distribution partnership teams, both led by ...

Some Australian leaders debate whether the country should use a Chinese-owned version of TikTok or one run by a Trump-allied consortium that includes News Corp (Josh Taylor/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/techno…

How Trump leveraged Biden's TikTok ban law to help allies gain control of the app, amid fears it could be used to boost pro-Trump content and suppress criticism (Washington Post)

Trump turns Biden’s TikTok law into a big win
Biden officials said selling TikTok would safeguard it from political influence. Now, critics of a spinoff deal to Trump allies say that aim could be subverted.

The EU accuses Meta and TikTok of violating their obligations to give researchers adequate access to public data on their platforms under the DSA (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-accuses-meta-tiktok-of-breaching-digital-rules/

EU accuses Meta, TikTok of breaching digital rules
Move comes as EU faces pressure over enforcing its tech lawbooks.

Some Australian leaders and experts debate whether the country should use a Chinese-owned version of TikTok or one run by Trump allies (Josh Taylor/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

TikTok pushes merchants to use a new ad-buying tool that promotes videos linking to TikTok Shop rather than merchants' own sites, frustrating some merchants (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-shops-new-…

TikTok Shop’s New Ad Policy Risks Alienating Merchants
As TikTok readies itself for the expected sale of its U.S. business to a new venture controlled by American investors, the company is trying to boost its commerce business, TikTok Shop. But the measures it has taken risk alienating merchants who sell on the shopping service. TikTok Shop in ...