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TikTok, the digital fentanyl In this age of social media, digital warfare is becoming as consequential as land warfare. This reality is underscored by a bill now barreling through Congress. Should it pass, it would compel the Chinese owners of TikTok to sell it to a buyer with no links to China or face an outright ban. Members… Read more.
Musk reinstates Jones on X Elon Musk proved long ago that he is to business what Donald Trump is to politics. Both revel in defying norms and conventional wisdom. Yesterday, Musk proved it again by reinstating Alex Jones on X, formerly Twitter. Jones gained infamy by spreading wild conspiracies, including that: a “New World Order” is… Read more.
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The Justice Department plans to arrest Donald Trump tomorrow. And media reporting on his pending arrest is redolent with hypocrisy. Even worse, they are warning about Trump and Republican leaders inciting violence. Yet their coverage is inciting that violence. Of course, Trump has given the media cause to broadcast fears about him inciting violence. That’s… Read more.
Yes, TikTok harvests your data. But social media like Facebook and even retailers like Whole Foods and Amazon do too. Banning TikTok? The difference, of course, is that the latter are US companies harvesting data to sell you stuff. Whereas the former is a Chinese company doing so to turn you against your own country.… Read more.
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey played Elon Musk Is the Pope Catholic? Yes, Jack Dorsey played Elon Musk for a sucker. Except that Twitter employees are the ones feeling played. That’s what inspired this headline today in the New York Post: Jack Dorsey source: ‘Everyone at Twitter hates him now’ They blame him for wooing Elon Musk. Because Musk… Read more.
Kanye West (aka Ye) spent much of last summer bullying Pete Davidson, his ex-wife Kim Kardashian’s boyfriend, on social media. This, because he could no more accept losing Kim to Pete than Donald Trump could accept losing the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden. But Kanye had the last laugh, which I decried in “Kanye,… Read more.
Celebrities vow to quit social media As clickbait goes, celebrities posting tweets pledging to quit social media takes the cake. Pam Anderson is the latest to take the pledge. But in seeking more fame, she just looks lame. Of course, social media platforms are rife with social malignancies, physical dangers, and moral hazards. Thus, if celebrities made public service… Read more.
Calls to boycott Facebook are becoming pandemic among businesses worldwide. Numerous businesses are pausing their advertising campaigns on Facebook (FB) – and Instagram, which is owned by Facebook – to boycott the company’s policies around what content it moderates and how. The campaign, called ‘Stop Hate for Profit,’ and organized by the NAACP, Color for… Read more.
And far too many people seem willing to forsake all else to ogle every one of them. I thought a silver lining in the coronavirus dark cloud was that stay-at-home orders might force people to reconnect with loved ones. Silly me. Instead, it appears most people are spending their time making videos they think will… Read more.
