Meta shared that it was working on Edits in January after ByteDance-owned CapCut was removed from U.S. app stores when the ...

Meta first shared that it was working on Edits back in January after ByteDance-owned CapCut was removed from U.S. app stores when the TikTok ban momentarily went into effect. Although the app has ...

Edits is owned by Instagram, a subsidiary of Meta, and CapCut is owned by ByteDance. As of Sunday afternoon, CapCut was unavailable in the U.S.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri took to Threads on Sunday with yet another announcement this weekend, the timing of which surely had nothing at all to do with TikTok and other ByteDance-owned apps ...

What is worrisome, though, is that a TikTok ban, should it ever happen, would also see the removal of CapCut, a top-of-the-line video editing app owned by TikTok's parent company Bytedance.

Edits appears to be Meta 's answer to CapCut, TikTok's sister app that is also owned by China-based parent company ByteDance, which allows users to create and edit video on their phone or computer.

US uncertainty about what apps are banned now, what might be banned in the future, and what is absolutely fine has reached quite a way beyond just TikTok as CapCut also went dark yesterday. The great ...