President Donald Trump has been ratioed on his own social media platform Truth Social after urging supporters to move on from convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Truth Social users are usually overwhelmingly supportive of Trump, making such backlash against the U.S. president unprecedented on the platform. SEE ALSO: ‘The Daily Show’ mocks Trump’s response…
X CEO and Elon Musk collaborator Linda Yaccarino is officially leaving her top seat at the social media company. Yaccarino declared that she would be stepping down as CEO in an X post, writing: …When @elonmusk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime…
Since its release on Netflix this past June, KPop Demon Hunters has found a passionate audience and a thriving online fandom. The animated action-comedy about a demon-slaying K-pop girl group has inspired fan-made merch, fan art, and group chat-level obsession. While the film leans into the spectacle with stadium-sized bangers and a rival boy group…
Since its release on Netflix this past June, K-pop Demon Hunters has found a passionate audience and a thriving online fandom. The animated action-comedy about a demon-slaying K-pop girl group has inspired fan-made merch, fan art, and group chat-level obsession. While the film leans into the spectacle with stadium-sized bangers and a rival boy group…
Tumblr is ditching — or, at least, suspending — its plan to migrate over to WordPress. Relatedly, that also means pausing plans of integrating Tumblr into the fediverse. That news dropped Monday on the Decoder podcast from The Verge. Automattic, which owns Tumblr, announced last year it planned to move Tumblr‘s backend of its website…
“Happy Pride!” Recently, that simple message was “de rigueur” for large corporations — including tech companies — to extol on their merchandise, press releases, and social media feeds. Much has changed with the second presidential election of Donald Trump, who made banishing DEI one of his signature endeavors. Even before his reelection, tech giants like Amazon’s…
On Wednesday, Nickelodeon’s Tiny Chef got a call — his cooking show had been cancelled. The adorable chef delivered the news in a heartbreaking video clip that has now gone viral. “But we won an Emmy!” Tiny Chef cries. The internet is now crying with him. The Tiny Chef Show, a blend of stop-motion and…
The top source of news for Americans is no longer TV; it’s social media. This is according to new research by Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) (via NiemanLab), which found that 54 percent of people in the U.S. get news via social media and video networks, overtaking TV broadcast news and…
Following days of protest decrying the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and militarized federal forces in Los Angeles, downtown L.A. residents remained under curfew this week while California governor Gavin Newsom went toe-to-toe with President Trump, who sent Marines into the area. Memes, and viral misinformation, were abundant. Meanwhile, the “No Kings” organizing…
Threads, Mark Zuckerberg’s answer to X, has been around for nearly two years. And soon, users will finally be able to send direct messages (DMs) on the app. Until now, anyone wanting to DM someone on Threads had to jump over to Instagram. That workaround makes some sense — you can’t have a Threads account…