socialmedia
There have been thousands of corporate buyouts in the 14 years since the 2008 banking crisis. And, according to the banks holding the loans, none of them have been worse than Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter. A report from the Wall Street Journal indicates that approximately $13 billion in loans used in the purchase of Twitter (now X) are stuck on banks’ balance sheets. The typical practice for this type of debt financing is for banks to sell that debt to other investors. Since X is a private company, this practice allows investors who weren’t involved in the initial financing phase to become s...
Cointelegraph
Instagram has added a new music feature and it feels like we’re living in the 2000s again. Remember Myspace? It was the biggest social network on the internet throughout much of the 2000s before Facebook took over. You could customize the way your personal profile looked, have a select number of “Top Friends” to show off who your best friends were and you could even have a default profile song that would play whenever someone visited the page. Instagram has now added the latter feature to user profiles so that people can make them even more unique and showcase what their favorite song is at an...
Loudwire
Independent journalist Séamus Malekafzali, an American who lives in Beirut, wanted to make some plans for the weekend. So he opened up Tinder, the location-based dating app. But instead of interested singles, he found an apparent ad from his own government threatening to bomb his city. "The United States will protect its partners in the face of threats by the Iranian regime and its proxies," the ad read in Arabic, along with images of warplanes and the logo of CENTCOM, the U.S. military command responsible for the Middle East and Central Asia. "Do not take up arms against the United States or ...
Reason
A federal judge in California dismissed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing social media platform X of disability discrimination following Elon Musk’s takeover and subsequent ban on remote work. The ruling, delivered by U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin in San Francisco, addressed claims made by Dmitry Borodaenko, a former employee of the company. Judge rules ban on remote workThe lawsuit, proposed as a class action in 2022, was filed by Borodaenko, a former engineering manager and cancer survivor. Borodaenko alleged that he was terminated shortly after Musk’s acquisition of the platform...
Invezz
Menschen, die mit Werbung auf Social Media ihr täglich Brot verdienen, werden Influencer genannt. Dann gibt es noch Sinn-fluencer, also Leute, die ihre Plattform für sinnvolle Inhalte nutzen und eine weitere Kategorie: die Cleanfluencer. Ja, das kommt tatsächlich vom englischen Wort "clean" also "sauber" und ja, auf diesen Kanälen geht es tatsächlich ums Putzen. Rund um das Putzen und Haushalten ist auf Social Media ein regelrechter Boom entbrannt. Es werden Tipps für fleckenfreies Fensterputzen geteilt, Mischanteile für selbstgemachtes Staub-Repellent verraten und Empfehlungen für die liebste...
Watson
«Wie viel Miete zahlen Sie?» und «Wären Sie bereit, mir Ihre Wohnung zu zeigen?» - zwei Fragen, die nicht jeder einfach so beantworten würde. Aber zwei Fragen, die Influencer Caleb Simpson aus New York stellt und die ihm inzwischen 8,6 Millionen Follower auf Tiktok eingebracht haben. Das Prinzip ist immer gleich: Menschen nennen ihren Mietpreis und geben anschließend eine Tour durch ihre Wohnung. Was in New York begann, ist inzwischen ein Trend, der auch in Berlin, München und Hamburg angekommen ist. Das Besondere an diesen Kurzvideos: Zuschauer und Zuschauerinnen bekommen persönliche Einblick...
DPA (German)
Die Influencerin Ivana Knöll, auch bekannt als "Miss Kroatien", ist durch ihre freizügigen Outfits als Kroatien-Fan bei der Fußball-WM in Katar 2022 berühmt geworden. Seitdem folgen ihr Millionen von Fans auf ihren Social-Media-Kanälen, auf denen sie sich auch hauptsächlich leicht bekleidet zeigt. Auf einem aktuellen Post wird jedoch ein Körperteil großflächig verdeckt: Ihr rechtes Bein steckt in einer Schiene, die auch den Fuß einschließt. Zu den Bildern in Bikini und Gipsbein schreibt Knöll, dass sie auch trotz eines gebrochenen Wadenbeines noch sexy sei – so schlimm wie es aussieht, kann es...
Watson
As Nicolás Maduro bans X and Signal, the role of technology in Venezuela becomes undeniable. Now more than ever, people's freedom lies in their ability to communicate and access information with privacy and security. This is true not only in Venezuela but also in the United States. Maduro's Repression "I feel like a Jew in Nazi Germany. The regime's security forces are going door by door, arresting human rights activists," a 21-year-old activist from Barquisimeto in northwest Venezuela, who asked to remain anonymous, told me. His words reflect the terrifying reality for many Venezuelans today....
Reason
Are you having a ‘brat summer’? For those of you who have been living under a rock, ‘brat’ has become one of 2024’s biggest trends, off the back of Charli XCX’s album. Following the June release of the British pop star’s sixth studio album \- which features a minimalistic lime green square as its cover art – the term “brat” has been everywhere, dominating social media and fashion trends. The word has been described by the singer as being representative of someone who might have "a pack of cigs, a Bic lighter and a strappy white top with no bra". She's explained on social media how it is simila...
Euronews (English)
American singer Chappell Roan has called out the "f*cking weird" and "creepy behaviour" from fans, referencing the stalking, bullying and harassment she has experienced since rising to fame. On 19 August, the 26-year-old singer shared two TikTok videos, questioning the entitlement of strangers and their intrusive actions towards her both online and offline. “If you saw a random woman on the street, would you yell at her from your car window? Would you harass her in public? Would you go up to a random lady and say, ‘Can I take a photo with you?’ and she says ‘No, what the f*ck?’ and then you ge...
Euronews (English)
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