X, Bluesky and others have rolled out vertical video feeds following TikTok’s short shutdown. TikTok’s offline period may have lasted less than 24 hours and the controversial social network may have received a 75-day reprieve from Donald Trump,
X and Bluesky have announced they are launching custom video feeds as TikTok faces an uncertain future in the U.S.
YouTuber MrBeast, X owner Elon Musk and Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison are names that have floated around in the past week.
Social media influencer MrBeast says he'd buy TikTok to keep it from being banned. Elon Musk reportedly is interested in buying the app as well.
In his first few days back in office, President Trump is talking about TikTok entirely as a deal making exercise, dropping all of his previously expressed concerns about Chinese influence and American national security.
Shortly after service was restored, Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) expressed his thoughts on the return on X, sharing TikTok's post. Here's what he said.
But Trump isn’t buying TikTok. The X post is fake. PolitiFact searched Trump’s X account and found no post about buying TikTok. We also contacted Trump’s team, but did not receive a response before publication.
Mark Zuckerberg is reshaping Facebook and Instagram to align with Donald Trump’s vision, following Elon Musk’s lead with X. Meanwhile, The Supreme Court will soon rule on a potential TikTok ban in The United States.
President Trump's executive order pausing the TikTok ban for 75 days might not protect the app's technology partners from $850 billion in fines.
A number of social-media posts claim that the Chinese-owned app is blocking content that is critical of the new president.