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Fans sit under a TikTok ad at a baseball game at Yankee Stadium, April 14, 2023, in New York. A bill that could lead to the popular video-sharing app TikTok being unavailable in the United States is quickly gaining traction in the House. Lawmakers advanced legislation against TikTok Thursday as they voiced concerns about the potential for the platform to surveil and manipulate Americans. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Bill to force sale of TikTok would be simple win for U.S. if passed, House Democratic sponsor says

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden holds a Laken Riley Botton as delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol, Thursday March 7, 2024, in Washington, while Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Mike Johnson of La., watch. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Laken Riley’s mom rips Biden for mispronouncing slain daughter’s name

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

The icon for the video-sharing TikTok app is seen on a smartphone, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, in Marple Township, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Trump says banning TikTok would only help Mark Zuckerberg

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Meta platforms up and running after massive outage

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

FILE - Phill Cady holds a sign during a "Take Our Border Back" rally on Feb. 3, 2024, in Quemado, Texas. Online actors tied to the Kremlin have begun pushing misleading and incendiary claims about U.S. immigration in an apparent bid to target American voters ahead of the 2024 election. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Russian disinformation is about immigration. The real aim is to undercut Ukraine aid

By David Klepper - Associated Press

President Joe Biden signs an executive on artificial intelligence in the East Room of the White House, Oct. 30, 2023, in Washington. Vice President Kamala Harris looks on at right. The White House said Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, that it is seeking public comment on the risks and benefits of having an AI system's key components publicly available for anyone to use and modify. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

White House wades into debate on ‘open’ versus ‘closed’ artificial intelligence systems

By Matt O'Brien - Associated Press

President Washington (Painting by Gilbert Stuart)

George Washington painting from early 1800s stolen in Colorado

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., left, and his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao respond to a reporter's question during a press conference in Louisville, Ky., Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020. McConnell secured a seventh term in Kentucky, fending off Democrat Amy McGrath. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Angela Chao, sister of former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, dies in Texas car accident

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A person stands in front of a Meta sign outside of the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., March 7, 2023. Meta releases results on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Meta to shine stronger spotlight on AI this year

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

FILE - Rays of sunlight pierce through the clouds Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023, above homes burned by wildfires in Lahaina, Hawaii. Days after Maui's wildfires killed scores of people and destroyed 2,000 homes, a shocking claim spread with alarming speed on YouTube and TikTok: The blaze was set deliberately, using futuristic energy weapons developed by the U.S. military. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Grave peril of digital conspiracy theories: ‘What happens when no one believes anything anymore?’

By David Klepper - Associated Press

Meta's app Threads is displayed on a smartphone in New York, on Thursday, July 6, 2023. According to new data from Apptopia, which researches social media platforms, Threads has blown by X in America's daily active user lane. Threads has seen a stable rise in its users and now houses around 28 million daily active users compared with X’s 22 million. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Meta’s Threads breaks into top 10 of app downloads as user base grows

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Taylor Swift waves after the AFC Championship NFL football game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Kansas City Chiefs, Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

X pauses Taylor Swift searches as deepfake explicit images spread

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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on "Foreign Influence Operations and Their Use of Social Media Platforms," on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 5, 2018. Sandberg has informed Facebook owner Meta's board of directors that she doesn't plan to stand for reelection in the spring. “With a heart filled with gratitude and a mind filled with memories, I let the Meta board know that I will not stand for reelection this May,” Sandberg wrote in a Facebook post on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg to leave company’s board of directors

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

ChatGPT-maker braces for fight with New York Times and authors on ‘fair use’ of copyrighted works

By Matt O'Brien - Associated Press

In this June 29, 2016, photo, the town of Prineville, Ore. is seen with the Ochoco National Forest on the horizon. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky) **FILE**

Pair of stranded motorists rescued after hiking miles to get signal in Oregon national forest

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Meta’s initial decisions to remove 2 videos of Israel-Hamas war reversed by Oversight Board

Meta's app Threads is displayed on a smartphone in New York, on Thursday, July 6, 2023. According to new data from Apptopia, which researches social media platforms, Threads has blown by X in America's daily active user lane. Threads has seen a stable rise in its users and now houses around 28 million daily active users compared with X’s 22 million. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Threads finally spreads to EU after delay over regulatory requirements

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

A group of young people with mobile phones on the street. (File photo credit: carballo via Shutterstock)

Research finds more teens turning to social media, not parents, for life lessons

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

An alligator swims at the Everglades National Park, Fla., April 23, 2012. A group of Floridians plan to host a series of competitions themed according to the collective antics of the beer-loving, gator-possessing, rap-sheet heavy, mullet-wearing social media phenomenon known as “Florida Man.” The games will poke fun at Florida’s reputation for producing strange news stories involving guns, drugs, booze and reptiles — or some combination of the four. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, file)

White alligator born at ‘gator theme park in Orlando

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai speaks about Google DeepMind at a Google I/O event in Mountain View, Calif., May 10, 2023. Google took its next leap in artificial intelligence Wednesday with the launch of a project called Gemini that's trained to think more like humans and behave in ways likely to intensify the debate about the technology's potential promise and perils. Google DeepMind is the AI division behind Gemini. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Google ups the stakes in AI race with Gemini, a technology trained to behave more like humans

By Michael Liedtke and Matt O'Brien