RIP Metaverse. Montana has banned TikTok, Big Google Purge comming 🔐#WEEKLY ~ May 21th

Twitter succumbed to Erdogan. 10 years after Snowden. 'Zelda' searches skyrocket on Pornhub.

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A former ByteDance executive in the US is suing the company for wrongful dismissal, claiming ByteDance stole content from its competitors and gave the Chinese Communist Party "ultimate access". The content theft was supposed to be in the early days, mainly from Instagram and Snapchat. He should have been fired precisely because he complained about it. (New York Times)

Twitter succumbed to Erdogan's pressure and silenced key voices in Turkey on the eve of the elections. He refused to disclose whom they blocked. It is worth recalling that the government there disabled Twitter completely after the recent earthquake. (Turkish Minute)

RIP Metaverse. Obituary of the latest fad in the tech graveyard. (Insider)