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Category: Social Media
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Tarte Island: Bora Bora Influencer Campaign Met With Online Backlash
As part of a promotional campaign, the beauty brand Tarte flew 30 social media influencers on a private jet to paradise. Many observers were not amused.
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Vanessa Friedman on Covering Paris Fashion Week
From Paris, Vanessa Friedman, The Times’s chief fashion critic, shared what she looks for on the runway and the forces shaping fashion right now.
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Wearing His Watches on His Wrist, and Elsewhere
Danar Widanarto, known as Chronondo, wanted to get attention at a trade fair, so he sewed watches all over a jacket. Boy, did it work.
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Forced to Change: Tech Giants Bow to Global Onslaught of Rules
For years, Apple, Google, Meta and others operated unfettered. But new laws and regulations have finally compelled them to make major shifts to their products and businesses.
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DeSantis Vetoes Blanket Social Media Ban for Youths Under 16
The statute, passed by the Florida Legislature last week, would have required sites like TikTok and Instagram to deny accounts to underage users, even if their parents permitted them to do so.
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Trump Media Sued by Co-Founders, Threatening to Delay Its Merger
Lawsuits could stall Trump Media’s long-delayed merger, which would provide the social media company with cash to fund Donald J. Trump’s Truth Social.
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Are You a ‘Boy Mom’? A Parental Debate Heats Up on TikTok.
Is this motherly love or something “toxic”?
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Cole Brauer Takes Followers on Solo Sailing Race Around the World
As Cole Brauer speeds to the finish of a solo race around the world, she is using Instagram to blow up sailing’s elitist image.
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Pregúntale a TikTok qué edad aparentas (y soporta los comentarios)
Algunos se unen a la tendencia por simple curiosidad. Y otros para aprovechar la inclinación de la gente por juzgar la apariencia ajena.
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China Has Thousands of Navalnys, Hidden From the Public
China has no dissident with the kind of public profile that Aleksei A. Navalny had. The government has many critics, but they all disappear from view.
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A K-Pop Star’s Lonely Downward Spiral
Goo Hara’s life was a struggle from the start. She ended it at 28, isolated and harassed online.