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• TikTok learned that building a music service is hard, so it’s integrating YouTube instead
• TikTok wants its fact-checking to be user-generated, too

  X and Meta already have Community Notes systems where users submit fact-checks on one another's posts. YouTube also has "information panels," which are crowdsourced but only from an approved list of publishers, so it half counts.

  
• On a new European app, TikTok tips the scales in favor of “joyful and entertaining content”

  TikTok Pro is a new app available in Europe that links the titular platform to charity drives and other fundraising efforts.

  
• Some social media trends have real consequences. This one cost New York City $17 million.

  From July 11 to 13, a flaw in the system allowed SYEP cards to access not just a week's earnings, but limitless amounts of cash from an account presumably operated by New York City itself.

  
• TikTok is crediting the songwriters behind the FYP’s biggest hits
• ByteDance is challenging Meta in the virtual reality of wearable tech
• TikTok yanks funding from Canadian cultural institutions ahead of potential shutdown
• TikTok to debut a U.S.-locked app as Trump says sale is “pretty much” done
• TikTok Shop staff just faced a third round of layoffs in three months. What’s the deal?
• TikTok wants to hire a manager for its news creators
• TikTok and Meta want a piece of YouTube’s TV success
• #BookTok is still booming. So why is TikTok getting out of publishing?