From state capitols to Washington, D.C., lawmakers are scrambling to come up with regulations that can protect kids from the potential harms of social media, since the platforms have been unwilling to adopt reasonable safeguards themselves. In just the last few months, Florida passed a law banning children under age 14 from having a social media account, Iowa legislators backed a bill that would require children younger than 18 to get parental permission to set up and use a social media account,...
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.
Have you ever wondered why so many brands are switching to digital social media platforms, like TikTok and Instagram, as their primary advertising mediums? Are you one of those people who criticise the new generation of creatives for their choice of advertising platform? After all, aren’t traditional linear TV ads what’s worked well for decades? […]
B.C. is putting its proposed online harms legislation on hold after reaching an agreement with some of the largest social media platforms to make people safer online.
Former President Trump fired back Wednesday after Jimmy Kimmel ripped him in jokes about his New York hush money criminal trial and his social media company’s plummeting stock. In a morning post on
The accountant hired to audit former President Donald Trump's social media company seemed to have a lot of trouble spelling his name, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.Ben F Borgers, the founder and managing partner of the accounting firm BF Borgers, spelled his name in 14 different ways in regulatory filings, the Financial Times reported, citing data it had reviewed from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.Some variations, like Ben F Brogers and Ben F orgers, appeared to be...
Federal Judge Clears Facebook's Zuckerberg Of Personal Liability In 25 'Social Media Addiction' Cases Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times, A federal judge has ruled Meta Platforms, Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg will not face personal liability in 25 legal complaints alleging his social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, have harmed children. Meta is facing dozens of separate legal complaints alleging the company failed to sufficiently warn adolescent users about the...
Trump Media shares have plunged in the two days that Donald Trump has been in a New York court for jury selection in his criminal hush money trial.
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FEATURE (THE CONVERSATION) — The U.S. government moved closer to banning the video social media app TikTok on Apr. 23 after the Senate approved a $95 billion foreign aid bill. The bill includes a provision to force ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, to either sell its American holdings to a U.S. company or […]
Paris Hilton wowed in head-to-toe pink as she attended the 2024 Variety Entertainment Marketing Summit at The Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills on Wednesday.
The unique relationship between social media and AI continues to develop in interesting ways, with Reddit’s recent deal with Google allowing their AI to train on its content, and tech companies’ sudden interest in once-popular social media sites like Photobucket. But there is a question looming in the background of these deals: Even if AI companies can train their models on social media, is doing so really such a good idea? AI companies have largely relied on the internet, especially...