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President Biden has signed the bill to force a sale of the video app or ban it. Now the law faces court challenges, a shortage of qualified buyers and Beijing’s hostility.

President Biden has signed the bill to force a sale of the video app or ban it. Now the law faces court challenges, a shortage of qualified buyers and Beijing’s hostility.

A report by Stanford researchers cautions that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children doesn’t have the resources to help fight the new epidemic.

To own a computer or smartphone — indeed, to engage with the digital world to any degree — is to be a mark. You can try to block, encrypt and unsubscribe your way out of it, but you may not succeed.

Instagram is testing a program that offers its top influencers the ability to interact with their followers over direct messages using a chatbot.

As legislation moves ahead that could eventually mandate a sale by the Chinese parent company ByteDance, hurdles include finding buyers.

Days before the former television anchor’s new talk show debuted, his deal combusted after an interview with the site’s owner, he said.

Lawmakers released internal emails detailing the company’s failed efforts to add staff to focus on the online safety of minors, hours before a hearing on the topic.