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Twitter is updating its policies to ban links. Making it harder for users to spread hate speech and violent content. Twitter already had rules in place barring hateful conduct and violence in tweets, but the policy didn’t extend to linked content. So users could effectively skirt Twitter’s policies by linking to content that would otherwise […]
75 year old Martin Gugino is now in stable condition and has responded to the President’s tweet about the events that led to his injury. According to CNN, when Gugino heard about the president accusing him of being an ANTIFA provocateur, “the 75 year-old just laughed.” When asked for a public comment, he only said […]
Michael Jordan and Jordan pledges $100 million towards social justice On Friday, Michael Jordan and Jordan Brand announced that they would be donating $100 million over the next 10 years to “organizations dedicated to ensuring racial equality, social justice and greater access to education.” They released the statement on the company’s Twitter page that read: […]
The Trump campaign tried to post a video tribute to George Floyd and Twitter isn’t having it. Twitter said copyright claim was the reason. On the subject of blocking the post the social media giant said “This media has been disabled in response to a claim by the copyright owner… Per our copyright policy, we […]
Snapchat parent company Snap will stop promoting President Trump’s account on its Discover tab. Which made me wonder, What is the Discover tab? Well, it’s stories from publishers, creators and popular Snapchat accounts. The President’s account will remain. CEO, Evan Spiegel, wrote in a staff memo. “We simply cannot promote accounts in America that are […]
On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to limit the rights of private tech companies like Twitter and Facebook, after Twitter placed a fact checked label under two of his tweets this week. The tweets claimed that casting ballots by mail allows for voter fraud, when in fact both Republican and Democratic […]
President Trump signed an executive order Thursday that will make it easier for big tech companies to be held liable for what users post. The reason for the executive order is because Twitter fact checked two tweets from the President earlier this week. Under the order Mr. Trump wants to push legislation that would reinterpret […]
This week Nicki Minaj and Doja Cat, along with Megan Thee Stallion and Beyonce have made billboard history. For the first time ever, the first two positions in the Billboard chart have been held by female rap artists. Shockingly, ‘Say So’ is the first Minaj single to ever reach the number 1 Billboard spot. It […]
Alex Alvarado usually spends his days creating artwork for Walt Disney Animation Studios as a look development (lookdev) artist and supervisor. Recently, while furloughed during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, Alvarado decided to share on the ArtStation platform what he thought popular hip hop legends might look like if they were animated characters. So far, he has […]
On Thursday, March 12, 2020, Facebook and Twitter both revealed that they had shut down accounts connected to Russian parties that were using the platforms to interfere with elections by targeting black social media users with fake news and divisive messages. Posts, pages, and tweets were typically about civil rights and race topics, but also […]