One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is being accused of double standards for refusing to remove a satirical video of Robert Irwin and the popular Australian cartoon character, Bluey, from her YouTube channel. The video — part of Hanson’s series Please Explain — has been viewed more than 276,000 times in four days. WATCH THE VIDEO … Read more
Online analysis found there have been over eight million posts in 2024 alone about ‘burning fat quickly’ on TikTok. And Google searches for these types of ‘quick fixes’ have increased by 581% in the last 12 months. However, a poll of 2,000 adults, found 42% admit that ‘quick weight loss’ content makes them feel insecure … Read more
Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images The stock price of Trump Media plunged by more than 17% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the Truth Social app owner said its registration of additional shares had been declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Trump Media, which trades under the DJT ticker, had seen its … Read more
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) addresses a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, October 6, 2021. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are scrambling to address the boom in deepfake AI pornographic images, which have targeted everyone from celebrities to high school students. Now, a new bill will seek to … Read more
(NewsNation) — A U.S. appeals court is scheduled to hear oral arguments this fall over challenges to a law that would ban TikTok in the United States if ByteDance, its China-based parent company, fails to divest from it. Under a law signed by President Joe Biden in April as part of a larger foreign aid … Read more
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is calling on Congress to require warning labels on social media, saying emergency action is needed as rampant use of the platforms has ignited a mental health crisis among adolescents. “It is time to require a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated … Read more
(NewsNation) — When it comes to keeping up with politics on social media, many users turn to X, the findings of a Pew Research Center study suggest. TikTok, Facebook and Instagram were the next most popular platforms for political information, in that order. Most X users, about 59%, say one of the reasons they use … Read more
The U.S. surgeon general has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms similar to those now mandatory on cigarette boxes. In a Monday opinion piece in the The New York Times, Dr. Vivek Murthy said that social media is a contributing factor in the mental health crisis among young people. “It … Read more
The U.S. surgeon general has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms similar to those now mandatory on cigarette boxes. In a Monday opinion piece in the The New York Times, Dr. Vivek Murthy said that social media is a contributing factor in the mental health crisis among young people. “It is … Read more
Before Orkut launched in January 2004, Büyükkökten warned the team that the platform he’d built it on could handle only 200,000 users. It wouldn’t be able to scale. “They said, let’s just launch and see what happens,” he explains. The rest is online history. “It grew so fast. Before we knew it, we had millions … Read more
