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But in 2023, we moved from food-inspired aesthetics to actually wanting to look like food, with trends like cinnamon cookie ...
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US Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban Law
The US Supreme Court upheld a law on Friday that could result in a ban on TikTok in the United ...
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RedNote Scrambles to Hire English-Speaking Content Moderators
The Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu—better known internationally as RedNote—is scrambling to boost its ability to moderate English-language content after ...
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Not Many Meta Employees Will Have to Move to Texas After All
Whether shifting teams to Texas will be anything more than symbolic is unclear. Common sense suggests if a person in ...
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Far-Right Extremists Are LARPing as Emergency Workers in Los Angeles
Extremists including white supremacists and border livestreamers have descended on Los Angeles in the midst of the wildfires there to ...
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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
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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’
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
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
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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