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TikTok Is Shutting Down its $2 Billion Creator Fund - TIME

TikTok is shutting its creator fund on Dec. 16. The fund, announced in 2020 and currently valued at $2 billion, was a way for short-form content creators to get paid for their content. On Monday, Fortune reported that the company has decided to forgo the program altogether.

In 2020, TikTok announced it would pay out $1 billion from the creator fund over the course of three years to creators for videos they posted that would receive hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of views. The aim of the fund afforded micro-influencers with at least 10,000 followers who had accumulated at least 100,000 views in the last 30 days to make money from TikTok. It’s not clear if TikTok paid the entire amount to the creators who qualified.

Many creators have criticized TikTok and the fund, saying it was not that lucrative for them. Some told Fortune they earned “mere pennies” for their viral videos.

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Israeli soldiers fight to reach Hamas’s headquarters - The Economist

Having isolated it, Israel’s forces are now penetrating deep into Gaza city, far farther than in the ground campaigns of 2009 and 2014. Back then their objectives were more limited: to destroy a number of Hamas’s tunnels and its rocket-launchers. This time the stated goal is the destruction of Hamas, in particular its leadership which Israeli intelligence believes to be holed up under the al-Shifa hospital (Israel claims it has evidence that Hamas is using other hospitals in the city as cover too; Hamas says this is a “false narrative”). But to get to these headquarters, the IDF must first get through Hamas’s defensive lines.

For the generals preparing the battle plans, the diplomatic clock is ticking. In horrific scenes more than 10,000 Palestinians have already been killed, according to the Gaza health ministry, which is controlled by Hamas. America is still supporting Israel, for now. On October 18th it vetoed a UN resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire. But on November 4th Antony Blinken, the secretary of state, called for “humanitarian pauses” to allow more civilians to leave the war zone and aid to be brought in from Egypt. International pressure will only increase as the fighting intensifies around locations inside Gaza city where those civilians who have not fled are sheltering, particularly the hospitals. On November 6th the heads of several UN bodies made a united call for a humanitarian ceasefire, according to Reuters.

As the number of civilian casualties soars, Israel’s “window of legitimacy”, as Israeli officials typically describe it, is fast closing in the eyes of the rest of the world. It is impossible to predict how many more Palestinians will die. Most of the parts of Gaza city that Israel’s forces are now going through are largely empty, but large numbers of people are still sheltering in the centre of the city, mainly around hospitals and UNRWA relief centres which Israel also says are the locations of Hamas’s headquarters.

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8 Rule-Bending Travel Hacks That Help You Fly Like a Boss | Entrepreneur - Entrepreneur

By Andrew Medal • May 27, 2016

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.

I love bending rules. I'm the type of person that seeks creative ways to do new things. Recently, I packed up all of my stuff in storage and have been traveling to different destinations two to three times a month. In the past four months I have gone to Playa Del Carmen, Cozumel, Austin, Boston, New York, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Costa Rica, Phuket and Bangkok, Thailand, and Hong Kong. I have many more trips planned (including a speaking engagement in Barcelona!).

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Co-working giant WeWork files for bankruptcy in the US - BBC News

WeWork has filed for bankruptcy in the US, a move that follows years of struggle for the co-working company.

The firm reported liabilities of $10bn to $50bn (£40.5bn), according to a bankruptcy filing in the New Jersey federal court.

WeWork, known for renting on flexible terms to start-ups and freelancers, was once seen as the future of the office.

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