TikTok Nears Deal with U.S.: The Biden administration and the Chinese-owned video app have drafted a preliminary agreement to resolve national security concerns over the platform, but hurdles remain over the terms.Section 230 Case: The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to a 1996 law that shields social media platforms from legal responsibility for what users post on their sites.Hiring Freezes : Amazon is halting corporate hiring in its retail business for the rest of the year, joining Meta as the latest tech companies to pull back amid the economic uncertainty.A Deal for Twitter? : In a surprise move, Elon Musk has offered to acquire Twitter at his original price of $44 billion, which could bring to an end the acrimonious legal fight between the billionaire and the company.The plan - which is in the early stages, with a goal of completion by the end of this year or early 2020 - requires thousands of Facebook employees to reconfigure how WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger function at their most basic levels, said the people involved in the effort, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the matter is confidential. Zuckerberg is imposing his authority over units he once vowed to leave alone. The move has the potential to redefine how billions of people use the apps to connect with one another while strengthening Facebook’s grip on users, raising antitrust, privacy and security questions. That will bring together three of the world’s largest messaging networks, which between them have more than 2.6 billion users, allowing people to communicate across the platforms for the first time. The services will continue to operate as stand-alone apps, but their underlying technical infrastructure will be unified, said four people involved in the effort. SAN FRANCISCO - Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, plans to integrate the social network’s messaging services - WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger - asserting his control over the company’s sprawling divisions at a time when its business has been battered by scandal.

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