The Biden campaign plans to continue using TikTok to reach voters and spread its message even after the president signed legislation that could lead to a ban on the popular app several months down the road. A Biden campaign official told The Hill that TikTok "is one of many places we're making sure our content is being seen by voters" as part of a strategy to reach Americans through a fragmented media environment. "When the stakes are this high in the election, we are going to use every tool we have to reach young voters where they are," the campaign official said. The campaign is using "enhan ..read more

TikTok will halt a feature that rewards its app users in France and Spain for watching videos in the wake of scrutiny from European Commission regulators. "TikTok always seeks to engage constructively with the EU Commission and other regulators. We are therefore voluntarily suspending the rewards functions in TikTok Lite while we address the concerns that they have raised," TikTok Policy Europe wrote Wednesday in a post on X. The announcement comes just days after the European Commission said it will look into whether TikTok's "addictive" features of its TikTok Lite app violated the European U ..read more

More than a third of U.S. workers are worried that artificial intelligence (AI) will result in them having their hours or salary slashed, or losing their job entirely, two new surveys found. The surveys, conducted by YouGov, found that 36 percent of full-time and part-time workers are concerned that AI will take over their jobs. Of the employees who use AI tools at work, 20 percent are very concerned that it will change their careers and 25 percent are somewhat concerned, the surveys found. Additionally, more workers now think AI will reduce jobs in their industries than a year ago. In a June ..read more

Google said Tuesday that it will no longer be able to complete its phaseout of third-party cookies by the end of 2024.  “We recognize that there are ongoing challenges related to reconciling divergent feedback from the industry, regulators and developers, and will continue to engage closely with the entire ecosystem,” the company said in a blog post.   This is the latest in a series of delays to Google’s efforts to eliminate third-party cookies, which track users across the internet to sell targeted ads.  The announcement comes just days before the U.K.’s Competition and Markets ..read more

President Biden signed a bill Wednesday that could lead to a ban on TikTok, but the video-sharing app won’t be cut off from its millions of American users just yet. The bill moved unusually fast, getting signed into law by the president less than two months after it was first unveiled in the House. Biden’s signing kicks into place a timeline for TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app or face a ban from U.S. app stores and networks. ByteDance will have up to a year to find a buyer, but the process is likely to be marred by Chinese rules dictating the export of technolo ..read more

TikTok vowed Wednesday to challenge a law that could potentially ban the popular social media app in the U.S.  "This unconstitutional law is a TikTok ban, and we will challenge it in court,” a spokesperson said in a statement. “We believe the facts and the law are clearly on our side, and we will ultimately prevail.”  President Biden signed a law Wednesday requiring TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to divest from the app or face a ban on U.S. devices and networks.  The measure was part of a larger $95 billion foreign aid package that provided long-sought additiona ..read more

Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social, asked Congress on Tuesday to investigate “potential manipulation” of its share price.  Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes voiced concerns about “naked” short selling of the company’s stock in a letter to the Republican chairs of the House Judiciary, Oversight, Financial Services and Ways and Means committees.  “Naked” short selling, in which traders sell shares without first borrowing them, is illegal. Various exchanges, like Nasdaq, are required to publish lists of stocks that have unusually high failure rates — a pote ..read more

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese slammed tech billionaire Elon Musk as a “bloke” who has chosen ego “over common sense” after Musk accused the country of censorship. “This is a bloke who’s chosen ego and showing violence over common sense,” Albanese said in an interview with "First Edition." “I think that Australians will shake their head when they think that this billionaire is prepared to go to court, fighting for the right to sow division and to show violent videos, which are very distressing.” Musk, the owner of the social platform X, has accused Australia of censorship after an ..read more

The Senate is poised to pass a bill as part of a broader foreign aid package that could lead to a ban on the social media app TikTok.   The Senate voted 80-19 to limit debate on the package, which includes a provision that would force TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance to sell the app or face a ban from U.S. devices and networks.  The House-passed package also includes $95 billion in foreign aid divided between Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.   The TikTok provision faced opposition in the Senate from both sides of the aisle, but its inclusion in the overall package means ..read more

The cyberattack on Change Healthcare in February targeted the data of "a substantial proportion of people in America," UnitedHealth Group (UHG) said this week, with the company confirming it paid a ransom in an effort to protect patient information. "Based on initial targeted data sampling to date, the company has found files containing protected health information (PHI) or personally identifiable information (PII), which could cover a substantial proportion of people in America," UHG said in an update on Monday regarding the attack on its subsidiary. "To date, the company has not seen evidenc ..read more