The U.S. Government Ordered ByteDance To Sell TikTok and Meta Launched a Paid Verification Program in This Week's Tech Roundup

This week, the tech industry was hit with the news of a possible impending ban on TikTok throughout the country. Late last year, Congress ruled that U.S. politicians would be forced to delete the app from their work phones. Now, a branch of the Biden administration focused on foreign investments has ordered that the app's parent company ByteDance sell TikTok, lest they institute a countrywide ban.Elsewhere in tech, Meta unveiled its own paid verification similar to Twitter's, charging the averag...