TikTok Changed Hollywood. It’s Never Going Back.
There’s no putting the genie back in the bottle no matter how Donald Trump’s executive order plays out. Source: TikTok Changed Hollywood. It’s Never Going Back.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Right Turn: Meta DEI Changes, Joe Rogan Interview
First, Meta shook up its public policy team, removing former U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who had been leading public affairs since 2018, and replacing him with Facebook veteran Joel Kaplan, a former deputy chief of staff to President George W. … Continued
US Supreme Court leans towards TikTok ban over security concerns
The Supreme Court appears poised to uphold a law that bans TikTok in the US over national security concerns unless its China-based parent company sells the platform ahead of a 19 January deadline.The Court’s nine justices heard from lawyers representing … Continued
Facebook and Instagram get rid of fact checkers
Meta is abandoning the use of independent fact checkers on Facebook and Instagram, replacing them with X-style “community notes” where commenting on the accuracy of posts is left to users. Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly74mpy8klo
‘I have 22 million followers but kept my day job’
A TikTok content creator whose videos of him cleaning pools have been watched by millions of viewers said continuing with his day job kept him “grounded”. Miles Laflin, known as The Pool Guy online, from Bedfordshire, has encouraged others to … Continued
New Year’s Eve: Counting down to midnight in online worlds
Thousands around the world will spend their New Year’s Eve inside World of Warcraft, just one of the hugely popular online worlds where gamers will be celebrating as the clock strikes midnight. Source: New Year’s Eve: Counting down to midnight … Continued