M eta has blocked TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, from advertising on Facebook and Instagram in the United States and six other countries. A Meta spokesperson confirmed the move on Thursday. Bloomberg News first reported it, according to the New York Post. The ban takes effect immediately in the US, Canada, Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand and Vietnam, and also applies to outside advertisers whose campaigns direct users to TikTok or other ByteDance products in those countries. The decision deepens a rivalry that has been building for years. TikTok has grown into one of Meta's strongest competitors, battling for users, top creators and advertising revenue. Defending the move, Meta said it has no obligation to promote a direct rival. "We don't have to run ads from a competitor whose goal is to pull people off our apps," the company said, adding that refusing to sell promotion services to a competitor is common business practice and that it will continue to comp...

Burna Boy (L) to co-host AfroBank FM in GTA 6 alongside Palms Trax. Composite: Burna Boy / Rockstar Games N igerian music star Burna Boy will have his own voice in Grand Theft Auto VI, one of the biggest video games ever made. Rockstar Games, the company behind the game, announced on Thursday that the Grammy winner will be a radio host in the new GTA world. He will lead a station called AfroBank FM alongside German DJ and producer Palms Trax. In the game, they will be known as Burna and Palmsy. The station will bring African music to millions of players around the world. According to Rockstar, it will play everything from classic songs from the last century and rare, undiscovered records to new sounds like amapiano and 3-step. This is not Burna Boy's first time in the GTA universe. His hit song Killin Dem with Zlatan was played on iFruit Radio in GTA V, and his song Gettin' Money featured in the Cayo Perico update for GTA Online. Now he is no longer just a song on the radio, he...