Potential TikTok ban in US could help NI users make more money, suggests local social media consultant
A Northern Irish TikToker who boasts a 45,000-strong following on the platform has claimed that a potential ban of the app in the United States might help local content creators make more money out of ...
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Trump Has Pledged an Era of Spectacular Violence. We Can’t Be Passive Onlookers.
Trump is poised to employ his mastery of spectacle to expand the oppressive forms of state violence at work in the US.
Mark Cuban Open To Financing TikTok Alternative Based on Bluesky Protocol
Mark Cuban has shown interest in funding a TikTok alternative. This move comes in light of the potential shutdown of TikTok ...
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Martin Luther King Jr. Denounced Merchants of Death in a Prophetic Warning
Jurors in the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal call on weapon makers to pay reparations for suffering they caused.
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Bluesky Increased Content Moderation By 17x In 2024
While X and Meta have slackened content-moderation efforts and slashed third-party fact-checking, Bluesky has amplified its efforts - processing almost 6.5 million content violation reports in 2024 - ...
The bright side of TikTok’s downfall
Fearless journalism is more important than ever. When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to ...
Crypto Biz: Meta’s free speech about-face isn’t what it seems
This week’s Crypto Biz features Meta’s censorship of decentralized social media networks, Tether’s lawsuit against Swan ...
Bluesky’s Bot Problem Is a Byproduct of Its Success. Users Are Not Amused.
There’s a reported uptick in bots spamming the hot new social platform, throwing a wrench in its plans to compete with X and Threads.
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Let's get social with the most interesting social media accounts
Plastics News has been working to remain available across most of the social media platforms. That includes our recent foray ...
6 TikTok creators on where they’ll go if the app is banned
It’s been more than four years since Donald Trump first moved to expel TikTok from the US — and now, just days before a ...
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We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky
If you’ve heard of Bluesky, you’ve probably heard of it as a clone of Twitter where liberals can take refuge. But under the ...
Mark Cuban Wants To Fund A TikTok Alternative Using Bluesky’s Protocol
Friday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the law banning TikTok that is set to go into effect in America on Sunday. But fret not, you millions of ...