As the Dominion lawsuit proved beyond a doubt, you gotta read a Murdoch publication like people used to read Pravda to get the real news.

"Major shift in policy..." -- somebody (Meta) realized their was cash to be made and phoned the politician they owned to call in the favor.

TikTok is likely correct in their claims that nothing would change as far as national security. In fact, the ONLY thing that would change is that the data vacuum would end on Meta servers instead.