Instagram has almost the competing application of “Edith” and where does it differ from the Chinese platform?

The Instagram announced yesterday the launch of a new app for the creation and division of short videos, amid the legal problems facing the Chinese app TickTok in the United States. “Today we're calling Ediths, a whole new app to make video on your” phone, said Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri, in a video posted on the platform.

There are many things going on in the world right now, and whatever happens, we think it's our job to build the most attractive creative tools for videomakers, not just for Instagrams, but for platforms there”, Mosser added. “Edits intends to do just that.

Just yesterday, a law came into effect that requires TikTok's mother company, China-based ByteDance, to give up ownership of the app in the United States or face a ban there. The application temporarily suspended access to the platform in the United States shortly before midnight Saturday.

TikTok later resumed operations in the United States after the announcement of the elected president, Donald Trump, for “an executive command” today, the day of its inauguration, “to extend the period before the bans of the law enter into force” and “reach an agreement” that protects national security.

I'm calling on companies not to let TickTok get out of function!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth, ensuring that “will have no responsibility for companies that helped keep TikTok from getting dark” before the executive order. “Americars deserve to see our emotional inauguration Monday, as well as other events and conversations,” he added, referring to the large base of US platform users. Trump also showed a possible solution: “I would like the United States to have 50 per cent of ownership shares in a joint venture”. “Without US approval, there is no TikTok,” he stressed.

Previously, Trump, also in “Truth”, published a brief post with the “appeal. Save TickTok!”, while yesterday the elected president, in an interview for the information channel “Nbc News”, predicted that “most likely” would give TikTok. a 90-day extension of the deadline set in ByteDance for selling to a non-Chinese buyer, scheduled for yesterday's day on January 19th. The possibility of postponing the law adopted last year by Congress with a broad consensus is predicted. The outgoing president, Joe Biden, left the decision to his successor.

On Saturday evening, less than two hours before entry into effect, TikTok went offline to the United States.

Users who tried to use the app were presented with the following message: “There is a law in the United States that prohibits TikTok. Unfortunately, that means you can't use TikTok right now. We're lucky President Trump has indicated that he will work with us to find a way back TikTok as soon as he takes office. Stay syntonized. ”

On January 17th, the US Supreme Court backed a law adopted by Congress to force ByteDance to leave TikTok or face a nationwide ban. Judges sided with concerns expressed by Congress and the White House, citing national security risks related to platform control from China. TikTok announced it would cease operations unless further “credient” is secured by the Biden administration and the Department of Justice. In a message posted on the X platform, the company wrote that “Declarations of the White House and Justice Department have failed to provide the guarantees and clarity needed for service providers making TikTok available for 170 million American citizens”.