TikTok Plans To Go Dark; U.S. Creator Startup Funding Bounces Back

Before we get to the rest of today’s newsletter, we have the latest update on TikTok. On Tuesday night, my colleague Sylvia and I reported TikTok’s plans to shut off its app for U.S. users on Sunday, the day a U.S. law will ban the app, unless the Supreme Court intervenes.

That news is causing quite a stir among creators, their managers and users of the app, who thought they’d still be able to use the app for a time after the law took effect. That doesn’t seem like it will be the case.