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TikTok announced Wednesday that it had suspended a feature that rewarded users for watching and liking videos on its new Lite app, available in France and Spain, after the EU launched an investigation Monday over child-safety concerns.

TikTok is getting closer to being kicked out of the US after the Senate approved a bill that would ban the platform unless its Chinese owner ByteDance sells the company.

Lawmakers sped the proposal, the most significant threat to the popular app’s U.S. operations, by tying it to a sprawling funding package offering aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan

Chinese officials say they "firmly oppose" the platform being divested.

A bill that will ban TikTok in the United States unless its Chinese owner divests from the company has passed overwhelmingly.

Universal Music remains at loggerheads with the app, but Swift – whose new album The Tortured Poets Department is out next week – can control where her work is available

The U.S. isn’t the first country to attempt a ban on TikTok, the Chinese-owned app used by millions of Americans daily. WSJ breaks down TikTok bans and how they work in practice. Photo illustration: Annie Zhao

• • • Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he wanted to buy TikTok.
    • Part of his plan involves scrapping the original algorithm and rebuilding the app.
    • That's really hard to do, critics say.

• Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006.
• Now YouTube could be worth as much as $400 billion, per analyst Michael Nathanson.
• YouTube is really big! Yet somehow, it flies under the radar for most people. That's weird.

US streamer Tyler "Ninja" Blevins has revealed he has been diagnosed with melanoma, a form of skin cancer.

Shares of Donald Trump’s social media company jumped more than 30% in the first day of trading on the Nasdaq, boosting the value of Trump's large holdings in the company as well as the smaller stakes of fans who purchased shares as a show of support for the former president.

Reddit is nearly 20 years old and still loses money. Changing that won't be easy.

Former President Donald Trump's Truth Social to go public after merger

Spain’s top court targeted the service following copyright complaints

Trump will own about 60 percent of the Truth Social owner, which at its current share price would be worth about $3 billion. A lockup agreement will block him from selling the shares for six months.