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ICE-Tracking App’s Popularity Surges Following MAGA Meltdown

ICE BREAKER

ICEBlock is currently the most popular social networking app in the Apple Store

Tom Sanders | Published Jul 02, 2025

TikTok App Still Can’t Be Downloaded Even After Trump Order

LIMBO

“Did anyone else’s TikTok auto uninstall and not allow you to redownload,” an X user asked.

Isabel van Brugen | Published Jan 22, 2025

Apple Won’t Let Elon Rename Twitter on the App Store: Report

RULES ARE RULES

The issue reportedly has to do with the App Store’s minimum character requirement for the names of iOS apps.

AJ McDougall | Published Jul 30, 2023

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Kari Lake-Linked Tech Firm Wreaking Campaign Finance Havoc

APP-ALLING

Superfeed Technologies, a company with Trumpworld ties that once retained Kari Lake as an adviser, appears to have provided unreported free services to GOP candidates.

William Bredderman | Published Nov 05, 2022

Inside Travis Scott’s Team Up With ‘Tinder of Psychotherapy’

HELPING?

The rapper announced he was working with BetterHelp to offer a month of free therapy to Astroworld victims, but the company has been scrutinized over its practices.

Cheyenne Roundtree | Published Nov 11, 2021

A New Crime App Wants You to ‘Solve’ Jeffrey Epstein’s Death

UNLOCKING A MYSTERY

CrimeDoor, an augmented-reality app, lets users turn rooms in their home into crime scenes. And they’ve partnered with the sister of a teen girl who was murdered.

Tarpley Hitt | Published Jan 18, 2021

Is the Trump Administration Really Going to Ban TikTok?

MELTDOWN MODE

“All this awesome comedy would just be gone,” a top creator tells The Daily Beast.

Tarpley Hitt | Published Jul 13, 2020

Report: Popular Chat App ToTok Revealed as Spying Tool

REVEALED

ToTok is part of a digital arms race among authoritarian governments in their efforts to devise more sophisticated spying methods.

Emma Tucker | Published Dec 22, 2019

Apple Removes App That Let Activists Track Hong Kong Police

PULL THE PLUG

People’s Daily, a Chinese Communist Party newspaper, published an editorial that claimed Apple was aiding “rioters” in Hong Kong just one day prior.

Anna Kaplan | Published Oct 10, 2019

Will Apple’s New iOS Curb Smartphone Addiction?

Glued to the Screen

With the new Screen Time app, Apple is finally acknowledging that internet and smartphone addiction is real. But the app may be lacking a few key features, experts say.

Tanya Basu | Published Jun 06, 2018

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