MINI TECH SCROLL: TikTok US buyer update, Content moderators speak out , X pilots AI fact-checkers + Can AI run retail?

Please consider buying us a coffee or subscribing to a membership to help keep Centennial World's weekly podcasts going! Every single dollar goes back into this business🩷 https://buymeacoffee.com/centennialworld

 

The biggest tech news & social media trends on the internet from July 2nd, 2025.

 

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

1:43 Trump claims there is a US TikTok buyer

3:44 TikTok content moderators speak out against work conditions and expectations

8:34 X is piloting an AI-driven fact-checking program  

12:12 American AI company Anthropic tests whether AI can run a small store

 

Subscribe to Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/18cqrQI7gMiVfxIMRAeULF  Subscribe to Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/infinite-scroll/id1499785732  Subscribe to our weekly Substack: https://centennialworld.substack.com/  Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/infinitescrollpodcast/  Follow our publication: https://www.tiktok.com/@centennialworld  Follow Lauren on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurenmeisner_/  Follow Lauren on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@laurennmeisner

 

Sources: 

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/30/tech/trump-tiktok-who-could-buy 

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/trump-says-fox-interview-he-has-group-wealthy-people-buy-tiktok-2025-06-29/ 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/us/politics/trump-tiktok-buyer.html 

https://restofworld.org/2025/tiktok-moderators-turkey/ 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/21/diary-of-a-tiktok-moderator-we-are-the-people-who-sweep-up-the-mess 

https://www.vice.com/en/article/tiktok-content-moderation-layoffs-ai/ 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-12/tiktok-slashing-jobs-to-boost-ai-content-moderation/104465606 

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-10-20/behind-tiktoks-boom-a-legion-of-traumatised-10-a-day-content-moderators/ 

https://www.theverge.com/news/658566/content-moderator-union-alliance-meta-tiktok-google 

https://x.com/CommunityNotes/status/1940132205486915917 

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/x-is-piloting-a-program-that-lets-ai-chatbots-generate-community-notes/ 

https://www.theverge.com/news/696210/x-community-notes-ai-note-writers

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-01/x-will-deploy-ai-to-write-community-notes-expand-fact-checking  

https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1