by crissly | Sep 21, 2020 | Business, Business / Social Media
On Saturday, President Donald Trump declared that his months-long drama with TikTok had ended in success, calling an agreement made between the social media company, Oracle, and Walmart a “great deal for America.” Within 48 hours, Trump had reversed course. TikTok’s...
by crissly | Aug 24, 2020 | Business, Business / Social Media
On August 2, an anonymous TikTok account that posts jokes and memes from a conservative perspective called @the.republican.hub uploaded an unusually somber video for its 57,000 followers. In the clip, an animated elephant moves its trunk up and down to the beat of...
by crissly | Jul 28, 2020 | Business, Business / Social Media
On Monday, a new coronavirus disinformation video exploded across the internet. Created by the right-wing site Breitbart, it was a clip of a press conference from a group calling themselves America’s Frontline Doctors containing dangerously false claims about the...
by crissly | Jul 9, 2020 | Business, Business / Social Media
Civil rights leaders who instigated an unprecedented ad boycott of Facebook renewed criticism of the social media company for tolerating hate speech, misinformation, and harassment. In a meeting with Facebook executives on Tuesday, and a civil rights “audit” released...
by crissly | Jun 29, 2020 | Business, Business / Social Media
It’s a familiar story. A person in a position of power, usually a white man, is subject to social or professional sanction after someone draws attention to old, offensive comments on social media that few people noticed at the time. What makes the latest case unusual...
by crissly | Jun 9, 2020 | Business, Business / Social Media
Late last month, a mysterious new video app called Zynn began appearing at the top of app store charts, beating out household names like Instagram and YouTube. Zynn is a near identical copy of TikTok, and both apps are the product of Chinese tech giants. The biggest...
