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By Barrabi Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has joined with Frank McCourt and “Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary in their bid to acquire TikTok from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, the …
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By Barrabi A major shareholder of ByteDance, the Beijing-based owner of TikTok, said he was confident that a deal will be reached to ensure the video-sharing app stays online in …
Read More By Elisa A federal appeals court rejected an emergency bid by TikTok to temporarily block a law that would require its Chinese parent company ByteDance to divest the short-video app …
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By Zilber Left-leaning social media users have reportedly flocked to upstarts Bluesky and Threads – two rival apps to X, the site owned by Donald Trump-backing billionaire Elon Musk – …
Read More By Senjamici TikTok’s algorithms are poisoning kids’ mental health – and even leading to deaths from boneheaded viral social media challenges, an explosive lawsuit filed Tuesday by state Attorney General …
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By Barrabi Snapchat failed to adequately warn its users about the extent of rampant “sextortion schemes” targeting underage users – even as employees debated internally about how to address the …
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By Elisa Social media companies collect, share and process vast troves of information about their users while offering little transparency or control, including over how it is used by systems …
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By Zilber The latest polling which shows former President Donald Trump ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris is good news for the stock price of his media company. Shares of …
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By Elisa X’s global affairs head Nick Pickles is quitting Elon Musk’s embattled social media platform after a decade with the company. Pickles said he had decided to leave the …
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By Reilly Pavel Durov, the co-founder and CEO of the messaging app Telegram, was arrested at an airport in Paris Saturday after getting off his private jet, according to French …
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By Elisa Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, slumped Thursday after former President Donald Trump was convicted in his hush money trial. …
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By Bardolf A popular Iraqi influencer was shot dead by a man on a motorbike while sitting in her car outside her home in Baghdad, according to officials. Ghufran Sawadi, …
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By Barrabi A fresh legislative push to hold tech giants accountable for child safety is gaining momentum on Capitol Hill – as public outrage grows over online sex predators and AI-generated …
Read More By Zilber Facebook users are bombarded with targeted ads from nearly 200,000 companies, according to a first-of-its-kind study that revealed the vast scale of data tracking on the Meta-owned social …
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By Thaler A California judge on Tuesday rejected efforts by social media companies to toss nationwide lawsuits accusing the Big Tech behemoths of illegally enticing and then getting millions of …
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By Zilber Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of X, was criticized for making multiple edits to a post condemning antisemitism as the social media company fights back against suggestions that owner …
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By Elisa Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Threads post on Tuesday morning that a web version of the app will be rolling out over the next few days. …
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By Elisa Twitter plans to focus on video, creator and commerce partnerships to revitalize the social media company’s business beyond digital advertising, according to an investor presentation by owner Elon …
Read More By Elisa Meta-owned Instagram plans to release a text-based app that will compete with Twitter and may debut as soon as next month, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people …
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By Barrabi Elon Musk confirmed Friday that he has tapped former NBCUniversal advertising chief Linda Yaccarino as the next CEO of Twitter, concluding a months-long search for a successor to …
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