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Instagram announces new video app amid TikTok troubles

Meta announced a new video app called Edits, launching next month, on January 19, 2025.
TikTok briefly shut down its U.S. Service due to a new national security law, but resumed operations after less than a day.
Bluesky introduced customizable video features, allowing users to swipe through trending videos and pin clips to their feeds.
Elon Musk stated, 'I have been against a TikTok ban for a long time, because it goes against freedom of speech.

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Instagram and X promote new video tools amid TikTok’s uncertain future

Instagram is promoting a new video editing app and X is rolling out a new video feature. Both announcements come as TikTok continues to face an uncertain future. Meta said its new app called Edits launches next month. It is a “full suite of creative tools” that will enable users to edit clips for Instagram and save drafts. Instagram announced the new software Sunday, Jan. 19, just hours after TikTok briefly shut off its U.S. service when a new …

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TikTok restores service for US users based on Trump's promised executive order - WNKY News 40 Television

TikTok restored service to users in the United States on Sunday just hours after the popular video-sharing platform went dark in response to a federal ban, which President-elect Donald Trump said he would try to pause by executive order on his first day in office. Trump said he planned to issue the order to give TikTok’s China-based parent company more time to find an approved buyer before the ban takes full effect. He announced the move on his …

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TikTok Shutdown WAS A STUNT, Trump Vows To Restore App But Has NO POWER To Do So

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Inc.

TikTok Restarts U.S. Service After Trump Says ‘We Have to Save It’

The 170 million U.S. users of the social video platform look to the new president to sustain the app, despite passage of a law banning it if it was not sold by its Chinese parent company.

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Trump vows to save TikTok as two GOP senators dig in on ban

President-elect Donald Trump is poised to throw TikTok a lifeline, promising to extend the deadline on a sell-or-be-banned law that temporarily shut down the popular social media app over the weekend. Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social that he would sign an executive order to “extend the period of time before the law’s prohibitions take effect.” The law, signed by President Joe Biden, passed Congress with bipartisan majoritie…

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Fast Company

Is CapCut coming back? ByteDance editing app still dark despite TikTok’s return and new Meta alternative

Nearly a day after TikTok was restored to U.S. users in a dramatic game of chicken with the federal government, another popular service owned by China-based ByteDance is still dark. CapCut, the video-editing app used by many TikTok creators, has remained inaccessible in the United States as of Monday morning. Instead, visitors are greeted by a message explaining that CapCut has been swept up in the same law that required ByteDance to divest its …

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