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Why social media regulation could be a boost for the creator economy

Hanna Kahlert

26 Nov 2024

TikTok

Social media

platforms

TikTok’s future hangs in the balance, with its January deadline to find a new owner fast approaching beneath the oversight of a new, and unpredictable, US administration. President Trump originally tried...

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Oracle and Walmart re-emerge to take on the future of a US TikTok

Hanna Kahlert

22 Sep 2020

Mobile content

Online video

TikTok

Since the announced US ban of ByteDance and WeChat in August, the future of the widely popular short-form social video app TikTok has been murky and vaguely chaotic. Two weeks ago, Microsoft and Walmart...

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To be Silent is to be Complicit – On Which Side of History Will the NFL be Remembered?

Alistair Taylor

3 Jun 2020

audiences

Blacklivesmatter

blackouttuesday

Yesterday, social media went silent as it observed #BlackOutTuesday . Following George Floyd’s killing by a Minneapolis police officer, athletes and teams have all spoken up in solidarity, demanding...

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How Technology Is Radically Reshaping Politics

Mark Mulligan

6 Sep 2019

alternative facts

Boris Johnson

brexit

As I write this, the UK is in the midst of a potential constitutional crisis following the UK government’s proposed changes to political norms in order to push through Brexit. In some ways this is what...

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Obama’s Farewell Speech Frames Filter Bubbles as a Personal Responsibility

Zach Fuller

11 Jan 2017

Facebook

fakes news

filter bubbles

‘For too many of us, it has become safer to retreat into our own bubbles, whether in our neighborhoods or college campuses or places of worship or our social media feeds, surrounded by people who look...

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