With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’

With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’
In fact, the app doesn’t even have a good English translation of its own name: Xiaohongshu is the just the ...
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The TikTok Ban Would Be Social Media’s First Extinction-Level Event

The TikTok Ban Would Be Social Media’s First Extinction-Level Event
The Biden administration’s solicitor general, Elizabeth B. Prelogar, argued that Congress had every right to enact a ban, saying that ...
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Elon Musk Is Posting Nonstop Falsehoods About ‘Grooming Gangs’

Elon Musk Is Posting Nonstop Falsehoods About ‘Grooming Gangs’
The report that sparked Musk’s interest earlier this week claimed that Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips had rejected a request from ...
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This Was the Year of the Influencer Political Takeover

This Was the Year of the Influencer Political Takeover
After years of sitting on the sidelines, content creators became a part of the mainstream political media this year, delivering ...
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The Year Villainy Won | WIRED

The Year Villainy Won | WIRED
Irrational self-belief is one of the reasons villains deeply resonate across culture, says Kevin Wynter, a professor of media studies ...
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OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up With Their DMs

OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up With Their DMs
One of the more persistent concerns in the age of AI is that the robots will take our jobs. The ...
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The Red Elephant in the Room at AfroTech

The Red Elephant in the Room at AfroTech
Below a Trump administration, the outcomes for 2025 seem inevitably bleaker. He’s promised to spend money on an financial system ...
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Inside the Booming ‘AI Pimping’ Industry

Inside the Booming ‘AI Pimping’ Industry
AI-generated influencers based mostly on stolen photographs of real-life grownup content material creators are flooding social media. Source link #Booming ...
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The US Election Is Tearing BookTok Apart

The US Election Is Tearing BookTok Apart
TikTok creator @lizabookrecs had a query: When did BookTok grow to be political? It was within the hours after Donald ...
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How to Get Started on Bluesky

How to Get Started on Bluesky
The social media app Bluesky simply reached the highest of the free obtain charts for Apple’s app retailer in the ...
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