The company they built is wildly successful. But her Washington wisdom didn’t hold up, and neither did their close working relationship.

The conspiracists might have been deplatformed, but their movement is shifting into local elections and events.

The video app is causing products to blow up — and flame out — faster than ever.

By year’s end, TikTok will be charging a daily rate of $2 million for its prime ad placement — the skippable ‘ TopView ’ format that fires up fullscreen, with sound, when users open the app. In the third quarter of this year, the app is asking for $1.4 million daily for TopView ads — and as much as $1.5 million on national holidays — reports Bloomberg , which obtained a rate card detailing pricing plans.

Seven hours a day, Isabella Plunkett and 15,000 other content moderators around the world look at and filter the most repulsive content on the internet for Facebook. But they don’t actually work for Facebook. These workers, outsourced and employed by agencies, claim they are paid unfairly, that they are gagged by non-disclosure agreements and that they are given next to no support for the damage caused by looking at such content.

Global South users often share their accounts with shady middlemen. The practice is corrupting civil discourse around the world.

It’s official: Biden has reversed Trump’s executive order banning TikTok in the United States, bringing to a close a period of uncertainty over the immediate fate of the wildly popular social media app. But TikTok’s problems with the US government are far from over.