Experts say the measure could presage another major crackdown in Xinjiang.
When President Joe Biden signed a $95 billion foreign aid bill into law on April 24, it started the clock on a nine-month window for TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app. The president can extend the deadline by three months, and TikTok has indicated that it plans to challenge the law in court. If the law stands and the company fails to sell the app, TikTok will be blocked from any U.S. app store or web-hosting service. This would affect TikTok’s more than 170...
Total ad spend rose six per cent in 2023 to £36.6bn, although this translated to a 1.2 per cent contraction after accounting for inflation.
As the TikTok ban threatens the social media ecosystem, agency execs debate investing in the fediverse.
Suppliers boast to undercover reporters about promoting illegal nitazenes, on SoundCloud and XLethal synthetic opioids linked to more than two deaths a week in the UK have been advertised for sale in thousands of posts on social media, an investigation has found.Suppliers boasted to undercover BBC reporters posing as dealers about how easy it was to use social media to promote nitazenes, an illegal group of drugs several times more powerful than heroin. Continue reading
The DUP’s seven MPs all voted against the Tobacco and Vapes Bill in the House of Commons.
I’m a longtime social media critic, and I’m pretty indiscriminate in my criticism. I don’t trust any algorithm-based platforms or the executives who run them, be that X, Facebook or TikTok. And yet, while I’ve spent months deriding U.S. lawmakers’ laser focus on restricting access to TikTok, I’m starting to find the widespread fawning over the app — now that it might be banned in the U.S. — pretty disturbing. Last week, President Joe Biden signed a foreign aid package that included money for...
Singer Jelly Roll's wife Bunnie XO says troll comments about his weight hurt his feelings so much that he left social media.
Jelly Roll previously revealed he had already lost 70lbs. He's training for a 5K on May 7 with comedians Bert Kreischer and Tom Segura. The rapper-turned-singer one weighed as much as 500lbs but wants to lose 250
A key ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif demanded the government lift a two-month-old ban on the social media platform X.
As problems receive more attention, people are becoming more cautious about big tech companies' power to shape political opinions.
Domenica Calarco has revealed the 'sad' reason she has stepped back from sharing life updates with her followers.