Author: Drew Harwell

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District Judge Donald Molloy said Montana had not substantiated its claims that TikTok users’ data was being “stolen” or misused.

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Calls to ban the wildly popular app have faded ahead of the 2024 election.

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The extension was granted three days before Digital World would have been required to dissolve itself and return money to investors.

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With the merger stalled for months, Digital World is fast approaching a Sept. 8 deadline for the merger to close and has scheduled a shareholder vote for Tuesday to extend the deadline another year.

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The SEC left open the possibility that merger might still go through, but it was not clear that the deal would go through.

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The Coalition for Independent Technology Research argues the ban infringes on academic freedoms and constitutional rights.

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Iowa Republican Party’s state central committee scheduled the contest on the Martin Luther King Jr. Day federal holiday,

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For months, the Erica Marsh account had raised suspicions among online misinformation experts due to her lack of a real-world footprint and her devotion to attention-grabbing viewpoints one called “cartoonishly liberal.”

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The settlement, which is subject to approval by the SEC, could help unlock hundreds of millions of dollars for Trump’s media company.