Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has had a busy few weeks. In addition to doing away with Facebook’s independent fact-checking team and loosening its platforms’ policies on hateful speech, he’s headlined a personal public relations blitz that used Tahoe as a prop and a cringey appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience” as a diary.

Meta Platforms Inc. reportedly stands to gain significantly if TikTok, a popular social media platform, is banned from US app stores this Sunday.

Shou Zi Chew may be the CEO of Mark Zuckerberg’s biggest competitor, TikTok, but at the start of his career, he worked for Zuckerberg as an intern at Facebook.

The high-profile names who could potentially buy TikTok following the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the law banning the platform in the US.

The case hinges on whether TikTok can convince Justices that such a mandate violates the First Amendment by forcing a foreign-controlled app to sell or shut down. As of Friday, they have not — and the Court has compelled Tik-Tok to be sold or shuttered this weekend.

YouTube and its Shorts platform should also gain from TikTok’s loss. According to Morgan Stanley managing director Brian Nowak, every 10% of the time users would have spent on TikTok that goes to YouTube would add $400 million to $750 million in ad revenue to the video platform’s sales.

The president-elect and Joe Biden are reportedly exploring legal avenues for keeping the app accessible. Meanwhile, a growing list of entrepreneurs are said to be weighing a buyout.

High-profile tech billionaires, including Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk will sit front and center at President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.

This week's Out-of-Touch Adults' guide takes a look at RedNote, a site many young people are planning to go if TikTok closes down in the U.S. We also ask whether Elon Musk cheats at video games, and examining the trend of drinking meltwater from glaciers.

While campaigning for Donald Trump in October, Elon Musk claimed he could slash “at least $2 trillion” in government spending. Now that Musk has started laying the groundwork for his so-called “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE, he’s not as confident.

The CEOs of several of the world’s biggest technology companies are planning to attend President-elect Trump’s inauguration Monday. The leaders of Amazon, Google, Meta, Tesla, TikTok and