Trump’s New Social Media Site Plans to Raise Money With Shell Company Scheme
Former President Donald Trump speaks at one of his neo-fascist rallies on September 25, 2021 in Perry, Georgia Former President Donald Trump, a white supremacist who barely knows how to use a computer , announced late Wednesday that he plans to launch a new social media platform next year called Truth Social, with beta testing opening up to select users in November. And while the site was almost immediately infiltrated by pranksters mere hours after the announcement—long before people […]
Trump’s New Social Media Company Is His Biggest Scam Yet
By BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images. As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Donald Trump announced Wednesday night that he will be launching his own social media network, the embarrassingly named TRUTH Social. For those of you scratching your heads and wondering, But wait, didn’t Trump already launch a new social media company? you are likely thinking of (1) one of the right-wing networks tangentially associated with the ex-president, like Gab, Parler, or Gettr, or (2) something called “From the Desk […]
Finally, Facebook can say it’s not the most toxic social network
By rights, these should really be what we might euphemise as Donald Trump’s “hidden years”. Though he might not have been expected to descend immediately to full late-era Howard Hughes – four-inch fingernails and tissue boxes on his feet – the aesthetics of this third act in Trump’s American life felt promisingly tragicomic. The 45th president would live out an excruciatingly undignified post-office twilight down at Mar-a-Lago, railing like some 19th-hole Lear about his lost kingdom, shuffling his sad […]
Trump’s new social media company says users won’t be censored — unless they disrespect the site
Former President Donald Trump pitched his new social media platform, Truth Social, as a haven for free speech and a counterweight to the big tech giants that have in recent years put a greater emphasis on moderating content users post to their sites. But as the platform’s terms of service agreement makes clear, not all speech will be permitted. Specifically, users are prohibited from speaking ill of the platform itself or its leadership. Announced Wednesday, Truth Social will be […]
Commentary: Texas’ social media law is ill-conceived
Social media companies should be free to set their content policies. Mandates and regulations on such private entities from the government tramples free speech. Texas has recently joined the legislative fray against social media “censorship,” following like-minded but ill-fated initiatives such as a Florida law blocked by a judge and an eerily similar policy by Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro overturned by the Brazilian Senate. Under the Texas law, social media platforms cannot restrict or moderate content because of the political […]
Beyond Google and Bing: optimizing for social media
This promoted content is produced by a publishing partner of Open Mic. A paid-for membership product for partners of The Drum to self-publish their news, opinions and insights on thedrum.com – Find out more If you only optimize for the mainstream search engines, you’re going to miss out on the opportunity to reach a much larger audience – those who use social media platforms. Google, Bing, and other popular search engines may deliver great results, but they aren’t the […]
Best paying jobs in social media: The roles which pay DOUBLE the national average
Penelope Lively discusses impact of social media on writers The highest paying role currently in social media is that of an engagement manager, which offers an average salary of $80,436 (£58,704) while even the lowest paying role offers around the national average at $38,194 (£28,026). So what do these roles mean, how does one start and just how common are they in the digital world? PostBeyond revealed all in their research into the most searched-for and well-paying roles in […]
3 Sophisticated Social Media Scams You Need to Avoid
As we continue to digitize most parts of our day-to-day lives, we inadvertently create room for malicious individuals to exploit. While we socialize, do business, and search for love online, cybercriminals exploit the loopholes that exist in these online activities to wreak havoc on our finances. Owing to widespread awareness, common internet scams like the infamous “Nigerian prince” fraud are now easily discerned by potential victims. Unfortunately, scammers have evolved and now employ more sophisticated tactics to defraud their […]
Social Media toxicity
Earlier this year, Forbes wrote that Americans spent an average of 1,300 hours on social media last year. While COVID-19 certainly impacted this figure, that is still over 54 days worth of time. Regardless of the pandemic, it is undeniable that people are spending more time online. With the recent Facebook whistleblower on 60 Minutes , Time Magazine’s latest cover and Instagram’s pause on Instagram Kids , it seems prudent to ask — is social media toxic? The whistleblower […]
‘Did you bring the algorithm with you?’ Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen tries to explain social media to Congress in hilarious SNL cold open
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen was peppered with bizarre questions about social media from clueless lawmakers during Saturday Night Live ‘s satirical take on her Senate testimony. Haugen, played by SNL cast member Heidi Gardner, was asked if Facebook’s algorithm – the mathematical formula used to decide how prominent posts appear on users’ feeds – was a physical object by Louisiana Senator Neely Kennedy. Meanwhile, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, played by Cecily Strong, groused about her 2,000 friends, and […]
Can Effective Regulation Reduce the Impact of Divisive Content on Social Networks?
Amid a new storm of controversy sparked by The Facebook Files , an expose of various internal research projects which, in some ways, suggest that Facebook isn’t doing enough to protect users from harm, the core question that needs to be addressed is often being distorted by inherent bias and specific targeting of Facebook, the company, as opposed to social media, and algorithmic content amplification as a concept. That is, what do we do to fix it? What can […]
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‘SNL’ got Tom and MySpace Wrong. It was no social media utopia.
The real MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson, the one who sold it all to Rupert Murdoch, maybe doesn’t deserve our nostalgia. It’s the year 2021 and MySpace has somehow found itself in the Saturday Night Live cold open. With the Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen in the news after her testimony in front of Congress on Tuesday, SNL decided to seize the moment and excoriate the old, out-of-touch Senators for asking Haugen tech-dumb questions. The punchline at the end involves an […]