Donald Trump recently unbanned TikTok in the US, but competitors like X and Bluesky are already capitalizing the opportunity by adding vertical video scrolling feeds to the social media platforms.

Lawyer and frequent Trump critic Tristan Snell observed that many of the talking points in Trump’s speech were “LITERALLY a rundown of Project 2025,” a far right manifesto drawn up by the Heritage Foundation that Trump had tried to distance himself from during the campaign.

Millions of connections” from social network X will be re-established on rivals BlueSky or Mastodon from Jan 20, a French researcher said, in a campaign timed to coincide with Donald Trump's inauguration.

Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 47th president in United States history today. The nation’s big tech oligarchs have been cozying up to Trump with increasing enthusiasm, starting with Twitter/X’s Elon Musk before the election and continuing with Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and TikTok’s leadership more recently.

Bluesky is raising new funding led by Bain Capital Ventures that would value the social media company at around $700 million, according to sources.

If you’ve heard of Bluesky, you’ve probably heard of it as a clone of Twitter where liberals can take refuge. But under the hood it’s structured fundamentally differently—in a way that could point us to a healthier internet for everyone, regardless of politics or identity.

TikTok's services are restored in the U.S. after President-elect Donald Trump pledged to sign an executive order to save it. It's been a wild 24 hours to say the least — starting with TikTok preemptively shutting down the app for users from 10:30pm on January 18.

As Donald J. Trump prepares to take the oath of office for a second time, much of the world seems to be bowing down to him and demoralized opponents are rethinking the future.

Project 2025 aims to recreate the state-sanctioned discrimination and inequality that our ancestors fought to end.

Trump is poised to employ his mastery of spectacle to expand the oppressive forms of state violence at work in the US.

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The president-elect has made millions off Trump-branded products, with his name and likeness plastered on billboards, signs and T–shirts.