New from @georgiawells.bsky.social Stu Woo and me A profile of Tony Sayegh and How TikTok’s Trump Whisperer Changed Minds in Washington www.wsj.com/business/how...

Gen Z can’t type www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ge...

New resource for reporters: the Committee to Protect Journalists has released a chatbot that offers safety info for journalists while reporting cpj.org/2024/05/cpj-...

CHAOS IS SOMETIMES JUST THE POINT. Take a look at the overseas networks flooding TikTok with political lies, assisted by artificial intelligence. www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...

Months before the actual assassination attempt, an account on TikTok claimed Trump had been shot It was one of 91 accounts with overseas ties that generated videos with the help of AI to push lies about politics + Trump By me, @johnwest.bsky.social + the WSJ dream team www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...

TikTok pledged to protect U.S. data. $1.5 billion later it’s still struggling www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...

ICYMI: Google quietly bankrolled a campaign to attack California’s Journalism Preservation Act, keeping its name off of advertisements that mischaracterized the bill as a “tax increase.” Read more from Queenie Wong. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Young Americans increasingly get their news from TikTok—and it’s filled with intense, polarized and hard-to-verify videos about the Israel-Hamas war www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...

ByteDance execs transferred to high-level roles at TikTok earlier this year www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...

TikTok had hardly any friends in government earlier this year. TikTok now has many more friends, with something in common: backing from billionaire financier Jeff Yass. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

When Kanye wanted back on Twitter, he called his friend Elon. Here’s a look at how the company is making decisions nearly a year after Elon bought the platform. w/ @alexacorse.bsky.social + @kirstengrind.bsky.social www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...

A committee of China’s Communist Party members accessed the data of TikTok users in Hong Kong, alleges a former ByteDance exec https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-bytedance-executive-claims-chinese-communist-party-accessed-tiktoks-hong-kong-user-data-e9d5554f