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Jonathan Healey is a historian at Oxford. The Blood in Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642 is out now.

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In the mid-2010s, the Chinese technology company ByteDance studied the leading video clip-sharing platforms, such as Vine and Musical.ly, and identified some crucial weaknesses. The clips were not ...