Social Trends
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Russell Brand Jumps to Rumble After YouTube Flags COVID-19 Video ‘Mistake’ as Misinformation
The rapid-fire, free-thinking firebrand will continue uploading to YouTube “for as long as they’ll allow us”
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Facebook to Review Donald Trump Suspension, President Nick Clegg Says: ‘Need to Act With Great Caution’
The former President was banned from the social media platform after the Jan. 6 Capitol riots
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Twitter Takes Down Tweet by Professor Wishing Queen Elizabeth an ‘Excruciating’ Death
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was among those condemning the remarks by Carnegie Mellon University’s Uju Anya
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Trump’s Truth Social Faces New Test After SPAC Deal Partner Fails to Get Shareholder Support (Report)
Digital World Acquisition Corp inked the deal to take Trump Media & Technology Group public
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Snap to Lay Off More Than 1,200 Employees After Stock Freefall
The staffing cuts will begin Wednesday for development teams and the hardware division
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Trump’s Truth Social Accused of Stiffing Internet Hosting Firm Out of $1.6 Million (Report)
RightForge set up the social media platform, which launched in February
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Twitter Rolls Out Podcast Hub on Spaces Tab, Promotes Vox Media Content
The platform launched the tab, which includes podcasts and audio stations, for select users on Thursday
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Internet Trolls Inflated Amber Heard Hate on Twitter, Social Media Research Firm Finds
Bot Sentinel found 672 accounts solely aimed at spreading hate toward Amber Heard
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Pierce Brosnan Shares Behind-the-Scenes Images of James Caan Working on His Final Film
“I shall cherish the memory of you always,” Brosnan wrote of his “Fast Charlie” co-star
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FCC Commissioner Asks Apple and Google to Remove TikTok From App Stores
Commissioner Brendan Carr said the app is sharing private data with TikTok’s parent company in China
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Elon Musk Says Deal ‘Cannot Move Forward’ Until Twitter Proves Number of Spam Bots, Fake Accounts
Musk says the percentage of fake users could be as high as 20% – or more
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‘MySpace 2.0’: Users Predict Twitter ‘Going to Die’ if Elon Musk Takes Over
“Genius Musk will do for Twitter what genius Murdoch did for MySpace,” one person tweets
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Elon Musk Scolds Barack Obama, Taylor Swift for Not Tweeting Enough and Asks: ‘Is Twitter Dying?’
The Tesla founder recently became Twitter’s largest shareholder, in addition to joining the platform’s board of directors
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Elon Musk’s Twitter Investment Has Grown by $800 Million in Just One Day
The social media giant’s biggest investor made a killing on Monday’s 27% surge in the stock’s price
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Elon Musk Says Twitter ‘Undermines Democracy,’ Suggests Need for ‘a New Platform’
In a series of tweets, the Tesla founder said the platform is not living up to its duties as “the de facto public town square”
