TikTok is suing Montana for banning the social media site. The governor of Montana should lean into this and be very firm about it, says CNN's John Sutter. This creates unnecessary momentum for TikTok because people are busy, he adds. "I think Senator Warren's Werners Restrict Act made a lot of sense"
Meta will sell Giphy in an antitrust loss, and the man who ran a Twitter account tracking Elon Musk’s private jet is now tracking Ron Desantis. Also, the latest in the culture wars: A Florida school has limited access to Amanda Gorman’s poetry, and Target will remove some Pride merch after a backlash. Plus, Governor Ron DeSantis announced his presidential run on Twitter Spaces… and it didn’t go quite as planned. And the Surgeon General warns that social media may be harmful to young users. Then, a listener question on HBO Max rebranding to Max.
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