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‘Get Ready With Me': Video genre on everyday life thrives more than a decade after inception
More than a decade after debuting on the once-nascent YouTube creator community, “Get Ready with Me” videos have inundated social media.
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‘Gigantic global sewer:' Paris mayor says she's quitting Elon Musk's X platform
“I refuse to endorse this evil scheme,” Mayor Anne Hidalgo said in a long post titled, “Why I am leaving Twitter.”
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IBM and EU pull ads from Elon Musk's X as concerns about antisemitism fuel backlash
Advertisers are fleeing social media platform X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content, hate speech on the site in general or billionaire owner Elon Musk’s own tweets endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
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The Supreme Court wrestles with social media cases that have echoes of Donald Trump
The Supreme Court is wrestling with whether public officials can block critics from commenting on their social media accounts.
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AI Yearbook trend takes over social media
Influencers have been posting ’90s-inspired AI-generated yearbook photos using the Epik photo editing app.
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What is bed rotting, and is it good for you? What to know about the Gen Z trend
Bed rotting is a self-care trend that spread on TikTok. The term means to spend basically the entire day or even weekend in bed, doing everything from napping and doom-scrolling to watching TV and eating.
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Elon Musk facing defamation lawsuit in Texas over posts that falsely identified man in protest
A California man who says he was harassed after Elon Musk amplified posts on his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that falsely placed the man at a confrontation involving far-right protesters sued the billionaire for defamation in a lawsuit filed Monday.
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Supreme Court to decide if state laws limiting social platforms violate the Constitution
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether state laws seeking to regulate Facebook, TikTok, X and other social media platforms violate the Constitution.
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‘Constant buzzing': Some teens get thousands of phone notifications in a day, research finds
A Common Sense Media report finds about half of 11- to 17-year-olds get at least 237 notifications a day. Some get nearly 5,000 in 24 hours. What does that do to their brains?
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The new BeReal? BeFake lets users edit photos using AI
A new social media application released in August allows users to edit their photos using artificial intelligence before posting.
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TikTok launches tool that will help creators label AI content in effort to curb misinformation
TikTok said on Tuesday it will begin launching a new tool that will help creators label their AI-generated content.
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Pringles just unveiled a $140 collab with The Caviar Co. — here's what's inside the limited edition kit
The partnership was inspired by the viral TikTok trend which has been viewed more than 10 billion times.
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One Chip Challenge sickens 10 middle school students, Holliston principal says
A group of students who took part in the One Chip Challenge during their lunch at a Holliston, Massachusetts, middle school on Monday were left in “physical distress,” according to letters sent home from school officials. It’s the same social media challenge that’s part of the investigation into the death of a Worcester teenager earlier this month. The maker...
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Paqui pulls ‘One Chip Challenge' from stores after Massachusetts teen's death
Paqui, maker of the One Chip Challenge, is removing the spicy chips from stores after the death of Worcester teen Harris Wolobah.
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‘Dangerous side effects': DA warns of One Chip Challenge after Worcester teen's death
The Worcester District Attorney’s Office issued a warning Wednesday about the One Chip Challenge, five days after a local teen died after participating in the viral social media trend. “While the investigation into the cause of the teenager’s death in Worcester continues, the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office would like to remind parents to research and discuss with your...
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Worcester student dies; family blames complications from spicy chip challenge
A 14-year-old student from Worcester, Massachusetts, died on Friday, officials say, and his family says his death was caused by complications from eating an extremely spicy chip that’s the subject of a viral challenge. Harris Wolobah’s mother confirmed to NBC10 Boston that the family believes the teenager died of complications from the One Chip Challenge, though the results of...
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Federal judge blocks Arkansas law requiring parental consent for minors to join social media
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Arkansas from enforcing a new law that would have required parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts, preventing the state from becoming the first to impose such a restriction.
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After a hot start, Meta's Threads struggles for traction
Despite an initial explosion of signups and engagement numbers, Threads, Meta’s X competitor, is struggling to craft its own identity.
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Parents are smashing eggs on their kids heads in new TikTok prank. Doctors say they should stop.
The hashtag #eggprank has more than 670.7 million views. But some commenters have expressed concern that parents might be hurting or humiliating children.