Wall Street Journal: “Some TikTok leaders are concerned that the Montana bill, if passed, could lead to a domino effect in which other states eventually follow suit. … And that, in turn, could give momentum to politicians in Washington pushing for a nationwide ban.”
Twitter Adds Warning to NPR Twitter Account
Twitter added a warning to NPR’s Twitter account on Tuesday, declaring it as “state-affiliated media,” a label that’s typically been reserved for foreign media outlets that represent the official views of the government, like Russia’s RT and China’s Xinhua, Forbes reports.
Twitter Hasn’t Removed Blue Check Marks
“A day after Twitter was supposed to begin removing verified check marks from accounts that wouldn’t pay for the platform’s new subscription service, many verified accounts appear to have kept their check marks — except for The New York Times,” NBC News reports.
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Twitter Is Dying
Tech Crunch: “Since Musk took over he has set about dismantling everything that made Twitter valuable — making it his mission to drive out expertise, scare away celebrities, bully reporters and — on the flip side — reward the bad actors, spammers and sycophants who thrive in the opposite environment: An information vacuum.”
“It almost doesn’t matter if this is deliberate sabotage by Musk or the blundering stupidity of a clueless idiot. The upshot is the same: Twitter is dying.”
“The value that Twitter’s platform produced, by combining valuable streams of qualification and curiosity, is being beaten and wrung out. What’s left has — for months now — felt like an echo-y shell of its former self. And it’s clear that with every freshly destructive decision — whether it’s unbanning the nazis and letting the toxicity rip, turning verification into a pay-to-play megaphone or literally banning journalists — Musk has applied his vast wealth to destroying as much of the information network’s value as possible in as short a time as possible; each decision triggering another exodus of expertise as more long-time users give up and depart.”
“Simply put, Musk is flushing Twitter down the sink.”
A Rare Look Inside Russia’s Cyber War Ambitions
“Russian intelligence agencies worked with a Moscow-based defense contractor to strengthen their ability to launch cyberattacks, sow disinformation and surveil sections of the internet, according to thousands of pages of confidential corporate documents,” the Washington Post reports.
“The documents detail a suite of computer programs and databases that would allow Russia’s intelligence agencies and hacking groups to better find vulnerabilities, coordinate attacks and control online activity.”
Rand Paul Won’t Back TikTok Ban
Rep. Rand Paul (R-KY) announced in the Louisville Courier Journal that he opposes a ban on TikTok, calling it a form of censorship that would “emulate China’s speech bans.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter Account Restricted
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) congressional Twitter account was restricted Tuesday after she shared an image about a “Trans Day of Vengeance,” the Daily Beast reports.
Democrats Using AI to Write Fundraising Emails
“The Democratic Party has begun testing the use of artificial intelligence to write first drafts of some fund-raising messages, appeals that often perform better than those written entirely by human beings,” the New York Times reports.
Chip Makers Must Choose Between U.S. and China
Wall Street Journal: “The Biden administration last week proposed new rules detailing restrictions chip companies would face on operations in China and other countries of concern if the companies accept taxpayer funding. Some of the proposed restrictions, known as the China guardrails, were tougher than industry executives, lawyers and national-security analysts say they had expected.”
It’s Not Just TikTok
The four most downloaded apps over the past month are owned by Chinese companies, Axios reports.
Indicted Chinese Exile Controls Gettr Social Media Site
Former employees say an “exiled Chinese tycoon indicted in New York earlier this month in a billion-dollar fraud case controls the conservative social media platform Gettr and used it to promote cryptocurrencies and propaganda,“ the Washington Post reports.
“They said the arrested expatriate, Guo Wengui, and his longtime money manager, William Je, called the shots at the company while Donald Trump senior adviser Jason Miller was its chief executive and public face.”
TikTok Paid for Influencers to Attend Rally
“Ahead of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s much-anticipated testimony in the United States House of Representatives today, the embattled tech firm conducted a full-court press on Capitol Hill. This included paying to bring TikTok influencers face-to-face with their home state lawmakers, staffers, and journalists, as well as sharing their journey with their collective audience of some 60 million followers,” Wired reports.
“TikTok covered travel, hotels, meals, and shuttle rides to and from the Capitol for dozens of influencers, according to the creators and the company itself. Each social media star was also invited to bring a plus one—whether they flew in from Oklahoma, hopped the Acela from New York, or drove in from their suburban Washington home.”
TikTok Walks Into a Buzzsaw
Punchbowl News: “Here’s a bipartisan assessment of today’s TikTok hearing at the House Energy and Commerce Committee: It was a disaster for the popular video-sharing app and its CEO, Shou Zi Chew.”
“And the hearing has put TikTok in more peril on Capitol Hill.”
Politico: “Chew’s defense of the platform — that he has no working relationship with the CCP, that it’s working on content moderation, that user data from U.S. consumers is stored in America — was unconvincing to lawmakers.”
Platformer: How TikTok failed to make the case for itself.
China Says It Opposes a Forced Sale of TikTok
“China said it would strongly oppose any forced sale of TikTok, responding for the first time to a Biden administration demand that the video app divest itself from its Beijing-based parent ByteDance Ltd. or face a nationwide ban,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Banning TikTok Isn’t That Easy
“In the summer of 2020, in full re-election mode and looking for new ways to punish China, President Donald Trump threatened to cut off TikTok from the phones of millions of Americans unless its parent company agreed to sell all of its U.S. operations to American owners. The effort collapsed,” the New York Times reports.
“Now, more than two years later, after lengthy studies of how Chinese authorities could use the app for everything from surveillance to information operations, the Biden administration is attempting a strikingly similar move. It is better organized, vetted by lawyers, and coordinated with new bills in Congress that appear to have considerable bipartisan support.”
“Yet making TikTok safe from Chinese exploitation — as a tool for Chinese officials to surveil Americans’ tastes and whereabouts, as an entry point into the phones that contain their whole lives and as a way to pump out disinformation — turns out to be harder than it looks.”
New Republic: Fear the wrath of the TikTok voter.
TikTok Trackers Found in State-Government Websites
Wall Street Journal: “A review of the websites of more than 3,500 companies, organizations and government entities by the Toronto-based company Feroot Security found that so-called tracking pixels from the TikTok parent company were present in 30 U.S. state-government websites across 27 states, including some where the app has been banned from state networks and devices.”
150 Million Americans Actively Use TikTok
“When TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies before Congress on Thursday, he plans to unveil new internal data that suggests the popular video-sharing app is far more enmeshed in Americans’ daily lives than anyone realizes,” NBC News reports.
“TikTok currently says about 100 million people in the U.S. are regular users of the app. But when Chew testifies before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, he will say that number has now reached 150 million.”
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