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The TikTok ban, and what comes next


Five. Days. Left.

By David Pierce, editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. With five days left until the date by which TikTok is to be either sold or banned in the United States, millions of users are reckoning with what happens when one of the internet’s most important media platforms just up and disappears. Kickstarter has long been an important launching place for tech inventors and creators of all kinds, but it has also had its share of messy failures and sketchy ideas.

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