Sean is a business reporter who covers tech and media for TheWrap based in New York City. His beat includes companies like Meta and TikTok, as well as notable industry figures like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Sean covers the news landscape and closely watches digital media.
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President Trump Can’t Block His Twitter Critics, Court Rules
Since the president uses his personal account for “all manner of official purposes,” it’s unconstitutional for him to bar people from seeing his tweets
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Ross Perot, Billionaire Businessman and 2-Time Presidential Candidate, Dies at 89
Third-place finisher in 1992 presidential election lost a five-month battle with leukemia
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Instagram Adds New Feature to ‘Restrict’ Digital Bullies
Mean comments will be hidden behind a “sensitivity screen” and allow a user to approve if they end up on their posts
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BBC Studios Is the Latest Investor in Quibi, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s Streaming Service
Investment comes a week after the mobile-only streaming service added its first BBC show to its upcoming lineup
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How Facebook and Twitter’s Content Moderation Could Open a Legal ‘Pandora’s Box’
“It opens them up to liability for information that’s published on their platform,” Matt Bilinsky, a tech and media-focused attorney in Los Angeles, says
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Instagram Is Down for the Second Time in a Month
Popular Facebook-owned app has problems with Stories and new uploads, again
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Netflix Will Lose Subscribers If It Starts Running Ads, Study Says
Introducing ads to the famously ad-free service could scare away millions of customers, new study finds
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Trump Campaign’s Facebook Ads Use Foreign Models to Portray Real Supporters
“Tracey from Florida” is actually from France, it turns out
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Botched Adidas Twitter Campaign Spits out Racist and Anti-Semitic Arsenal Jerseys
When A.I. goes wrong: sportswear giant creates offensive computer-generate jerseys for Twitter trolls
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Twitter Permanently Suspends Egyptian Actor for ‘Now Lets Kill Some Jews’ Tweet
Hesham Mansour was removed after years of anti-Semitic tweets
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Facebook Office Evacuated After Potentially Deadly Chemical Detected in Package
Sarin, a “chemical warfare agent classified as a nerve agent,” was detected during a routine mail inspection
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Millennials Take Nearly 10 Minutes to Pick a Streaming Show, 2 Minutes More Than Most Adults
Streamers 18 to 34 spend 9.4 minutes deciding on what to watch, new Nielsen report finds
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Canadian Cartoonist Fired After Trump Illustration With Drowned Migrants Goes Viral
Michael de Adder says he’s lost his freelance job of 17 years after cartoon went “supernova”
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NBC Denies Andrew Yang’s Mic Was Cut Off at Democratic Debate
Entrepreneur-turned-candidate received less than 3 minutes of airtime
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Trump Yuks It Up With Putin: ‘Fake News Is a Great Term, Isn’t It?’
The president also playfully requested Russia doesn’t interfere with the 2020 election
