TikTok, tariffs, and trials: everything happening in tech’s chaotic April

As TikTok’s April 5th sell-by date approaches, Americans are back to where they stood before the original January deadline: watching anxiously to see if a major social media app gets banned. But that’s far from the only big event we’ll see over the coming month. April is filled with momentous turns in long-running tech policy stories — some possibly industry-changing, others at risk of fizzling out.

The first two and a half months of President Donald Trump’s second term were highly consequential for the tech industry...