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The former congressman was convicted of lying to the FBI and hiding information about illegal campaign contributions by a foreign billionaire Former Republican Rep. Jeff Fortenberry scored a victory Tuesday when an appeals court reversed his conviction for lying to federal authorities about an illegal foreign donation to Fortenberry’s 2016 campaign. The court ruled that the former congressman’s trial took place in the wrong venue. “Fortenberry’s trial took place in a state where no charged…

TikTok will begin requiring accounts belonging to US government departments, politicians and political parties to be verified and will ban videos aimed at campaign fundraising, the short-form video app said. The move comes as TikTok, owned by China's ByteDance, and other social media platforms are working to clamp down on political misinformation ahead of the US midterm elections in November, after years of being criticized for allowing such content to flourish on their services. Political accounts can submit a request…