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Meta's new Threads, a rival for X, is now Apple's most downloaded app

Fri, 12/22/2023 - 18:58

Mark Zuckerberg — Many employee perks saw cuts during Mark Zuckerberg's "year of efficiency"
Kevin Dietsch/Getty images

Tech, meta, threads, Instagram, social-media, x, twitter

Substack's Nazi problem isn't about speech — it's about money

Fri, 12/22/2023 - 17:33

pitcure of the Substack website on a phone — Substack is facing criticism for not removing or demonetizing Nazi blogs.
Katie Notopoulos / Business Insider

Tech, culture, Media, Substack, content-moderators, Nazis, free-speech

Consumers are pushing back on being asked to buy more stuff with 'no-spend 2024'

Wed, 12/20/2023 - 14:23

Tech Insider : Economy

A composite of images taken from TikTok which show three social media users posing alongside text that list the items they wont be buying in 2024. — Some TikTokers pledged to cut back on fast food and streaming services in the new year.
TikTok: @miawestrap, @nobuy2024, @anisaanorve

culture, economy, digital-culture, social-media, Spending, Budget, tiktok

Nearly a third of Gen Z said technology is making them lonelier — and it's making many spend more

Tue, 12/19/2023 - 06:05

Tech Insider : Economy, Technology

Social media rampage after breakup — Social media is making nearly a third of Gen Zers more lonely.
Georgijevic/Getty Images

economy, Loneliness, Technology, social-media, Spending, Inflation

Gen Z has discovered a whole new source for news

Thu, 12/14/2023 - 06:02

A Tiktoker brings the latest news. — Young people on TikTok learn about what's happening from a hodgepodge of alternative sources, from news commentary influencers to purportedly on-the-ground "citizen journalists."
James Clapham for BI

Media, Discourse, Tech, chelsea-jia-feng, business-insider-illustration, tiktok, Discourse

A young woman injured in a car crash got flamed for receiving blood donations from dozens of civil servants, over concerns they were forced to become 'mobile blood banks for the rich'

Mon, 12/11/2023 - 01:36

Policemen of Burang Station of Immigration Inspection make vows to mark the Chinese people's police day on January 10, 2021 in Ngari, Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Yu Yanyan is flown to Chengdu on a chartered flight. — Yu Yanyan was flown to Chengdu on a chartered flight after civil servants donated blood to her in October.
He Yuheng/VCG via Getty Images and Screenshot via Weibo/Shanghai News

culture, Tech, China, social-media, Weibo, corruption, conspiracy-theories

Elon Musk's 'attitude' is part of an advertising exodus. Here's why Meta's pedophile problem hasn't done the same.

Sat, 12/09/2023 - 10:07

Photo collage of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg — Elon Musk's explosive comments during an interview at the NYT DealBook Summit have driven advertisers off X en masse.
Chesnot/Getty, MANDEL NGAN/Getty, Tyler Le/BI

Tech, Media, insider-news, x, twitter, social-media, meta

Elon Musk's biggest fans on X love Community Notes — until it comes for them

Thu, 12/07/2023 - 21:42

Angry face emoji's on top of the community notes icon — Emojipedia; Rebecca Zisser/BI

Tech, elon-musk, twitter, x, social-media, insider-illustration, rebecca-zisser

TikTok's top videos of the year are wildly different from our dark, depressing feeds

Wed, 12/06/2023 - 16:14

three tiktoks; a woman dancing, a hamster eating, a man singing — Top TikTok videos from this year included dancing, singing, and cute animals.
@TikTok

Tech, Advertising, culture, Media, tiktok, end-of-year-2023, selena-gomez

Here are the most popular TikToks of the year, from fried chicken ASMR to an inventive onion-cutting hack

Wed, 12/06/2023 - 13:30

The most popular clips on TikTok in the US this year racked up cumulative billions of views.

Getty Images

Media, Tech, tiktok, viral-tiktoks, 2023, tiktok-trends, Media

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