Alexandra S. Levine

Personal scoop: I'm joining Bloomberg to cover TikTok! I've long admired the work of @sarahfrier @KurtWagner8 @aishacounts @rileyraygriffin @daveyalba @jillianannward @tsgiles and so many others at @business — and I'm thrilled to be a part of their all-star @technology team! 🎉

Meta agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging that addiction to Instagram and other social media upended learning across the US and forced schools to spend enormous resources fighting a mental health crisis, according to a court filing. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

SCOOP in Bloomberg: Meta has SETTLED the landmark lawsuit alleging that addiction to Instagram and other top social media platforms has upended learning across America. w/ @livcarville and @madlinbmek in @business: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

ICYMI- late Fri scoop: TikTok, YouTube and Snap SETTLED ahead of June's landmark social media trial on alleged harms in schools, which centers on claims that addiction to the top platforms has upended learning across America. Meta will still go to trial: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Scoop from @madlinbmek and I: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

SCOOP: Snap and YouTube have SETTLED ahead of the landmark social media trial next month related to alleged harms in schools. Story coming from Bloomberg @business

AI has made it easier than ever for anyone, anywhere to instantly create horrifying illegal images of kids—often using innocent photos pulled off parents’ social media as a starting point. Our @business investigation into how gen AI is making an old problem exponentially worse:

Read the story at gift link here: bloom.bg/48dAxwa

Memo: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says the company plans to lay off ~1,000 full-time employees, or 16% of its global workforce, to cut costs and achieve profitability (@ali_lev / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #a260415p14" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260415/p14#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

New- Google is facing demands from top child development experts to prohibit videos created with AI from being shown or recommended to young viewers across YouTube and YouTube Kids: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

ICYMI in @business: A new web game inspired by Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes - where players pretend to be assault victims trapped on his island - is spreading online and across the US. It's becoming especially popular with one group in particular: Kids. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

“Five Nights at Epstein’s” is sweeping through classrooms across the country: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A new online game called Five Nights at Epstein’s is sweeping through classrooms across the country, supercharged by videos on social media that show young boys and girls playing in class bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Breaking: Meta and Google have been found liable in a first-of-its-kind national social media addiction case. More coming from @business on implications for Instagram, YouTube and beyond: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

This marks the first legal challenge to the TikTok deal brokered by the Trump administration and finalized in January: news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-re…

In the US, ByteDance is best-known as a social media company because of TikTok. But it's also a dominant AI company -- and a threat to American AI pioneers like OpenAI and Anthropic. With new concerns from Hollywood, the US seems to be waking up to that:bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

ByteDance is currently hiring for nearly 100 US-based roles within its Seed AI team across San Jose, LA, and Seattle to develop LLMs, drug discovery, and more (@ali_lev / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #a260219p24" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260219/p24#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

The CEO of the new TikTok venture may be relatively unknown in some tech circles, but he's been widely seen as the most influential US-based leader at TikTok. Adam Presser is now at the helm of an app worth at least $14B and used by more than half the US: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

TikTok and ByteDance have officially closed a national security deal to avoid a TikTok ban in the US, where more than half the country uses the app. Here are the details. And if you work (or worked) at TikTok, let's chat! Reach me on Signal: alexandra.25 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The first-ever TikTok Awards in the US are happening live tonight from the red carpet at the Hollywood Palladium. On the significance of the company doing this now -- and the creators making the jump from the phone screen to the big screen: bloomberg.com/news/newslette…