Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has had a busy few weeks. In addition to doing away with Facebook’s independent fact-checking team and loosening its platforms’ policies on hateful speech, he’s headlined a personal public relations blitz that used Tahoe as a prop and a cringey appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience” as a diary.
Meta Platforms Inc. reportedly stands to gain significantly if TikTok, a popular social media platform, is banned from US app stores this Sunday.
The high-profile names who could potentially buy TikTok following the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the law banning the platform in the US.
YouTube and its Shorts platform should also gain from TikTok’s loss. According to Morgan Stanley managing director Brian Nowak, every 10% of the time users would have spent on TikTok that goes to YouTube would add $400 million to $750 million in ad revenue to the video platform’s sales.
TikTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew could have a prominent spot for president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, according to the New York Times. Trump once sought to ban the app, but now he wants to save it.
TikTok CEO Shou Chew is expected to accept an invitation from President-elect Donald Trump to attend his inauguration.
TikTok's CEO is expected to attend president-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday, according to multiple US media outlets, as some Democratic lawmakers and the incoming administration try to help the Chinese-owned app avert a ban in the US.
Joe' host Joe Scarborough expressed on Thursday's show that he has "always been horrified" by the Chinese-owned app TikTok and said Elon Musk should not be the person to take over American operations for the social platform.
Shou Zi Chew may be the CEO of Mark Zuckerberg’s biggest competitor, TikTok, but at the start of his career, he worked for Zuckerberg as an intern at Facebook.