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January 6 panel examines whether erased Secret Service texts can be revived — The Guardian

The House committee investigating the Capitol attack is examining whether Secret Service text messages from 5 and 6 January 2021 that were erased around the time of an internal review can be reconstructed, writes Hugo Lowell. 

Trump’s ban from Twitter creates the ultimate case of link rot in posts across the internet — The Verge

Thousands of tweets he put forth from his realDonaldTrump account over the past decade were wiped out, writes Kim Lyons. Here is the link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/9/22222371/trump-ban-twitter-link-rot-embedded-dead-posts (If...

Judge rules TikTok can avoid a ban in the US, for now — CNN

A federal judge on Sunday partially granted TikTok's request for a temporary injunction against a push by the Trump administration to ban the app,...

Booting WeChat from the App Store could hit global iPhone shipments hard — Cult of Mac

Booting WeChat out of the App Store could drive down worldwide iPhone shipments by up to 30% claims respected Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, writes...

Trump says he will ban TikTok through an executive action — CNBC

Trump’s comments come as it was reported Friday that Microsoft has held talks to buy the TikTok video-sharing mobile app from Chinese owner ByteDance,...