James Graff

You may have seen a lot of headlines this morning about Meta's @oversightboard.bsky.social latest rulings but there was one officials there clearly didn't want you to read

Trump administration unwinds efforts to investigate Russian war crimes The Trump administration has backed away from several initiatives intended to hold Moscow accountable for war crimes in Ukraine, including an intelligence coordinator office.

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Trump administration unwinds efforts to investigate Russian war crimes

A battered TikTok enters an age of chaos as a ban awaits The video app that once styled itself a joyful politics-free zone is now bracing for a nationwide ban and pinning its hopes on President-elect Donald Trump.

New: A battered TikTok enters a new age of chaos: an unprecedented ban, redrawn alliances and a dependence on an erratic president to survive

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Covert TikTok campaign blamed in pro-Russian Romanian candidate’s surge A presidential hopeful rose from obscurity to win the first round of the election thanks to a social media campaign the government says was improper.

A TikTok campaign boosted a previously obscure pro-Russian candidate to the final vote for president this weekend, the government and outside researchers say. Could it happen anywhere? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

“The podcast or livestream as a form is politically reactionary in that it emphasizes immediate and transient feeling as the horizon of political experience.” So it’s not just Rogan et al — it’s the form itself, says Rob Horning

How rank does that smell?

Meta scrambles to respond to upstart social platform Bluesky’s surge Threads, Meta’s answer to Elon Musk’s X, makes changes to incorporate features that have drawn millions to its much smaller rival.

Bluesky’s surge has got Meta trying on some new Threads. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...