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Vine Successor Byte Is Launching ⁠— With Plans to Compensate Creators

January 27, 2020

Photo Credit: Byte One of the original co-creators of Vine is working on a successor, dubbed Byte. TikTok dominates the short-form video social media landscape currently. Dom Hofmann is developing Byte for i... Read More...

Thematic Is Unlocking the Content Creator Economy for Artists — 2.5 Billion Plays, 1 Million Fan Conversions

Paul Resnikoff

January 22, 2020

Thematic artists Last time we reported on Thematic, the company had generated more than 1 billion song plays for its artists. Now, that number has surpassed 2.5 billion, just one of several impressive stats ... Read More...

TikTok Says It Will Ban Holocaust Denial and Other Conspiracy Theories

Ashley King

January 9, 2020

Photo Credit: TikTok An updated set of community guidelines reveals that TikTok will explicitly ban conspiracy theories going forward. The move comes as Facebook and YouTube are struggling with their own mode... Read More...

As Facebook Bans Deepfakes, TikTok Prepares a Deepfakes Feature

Ashley King

January 7, 2020

Photo Credit: Facebook Despite refusing to ban political advertising, Facebook says it will take action against deepfake videos. Deepfake videos are heavily manipulated using AI to make people say things the... Read More...

French Montana fake Spotify streams Controversy

French Montana Gets Busted for Fake Spotify Streams — Denies Any Involvement

Ashley King

January 6, 2020

Photo Credit: French Montana YouTube French Montana has now confirmed that a recent song of his has been rising on the charts because of fake Spotify streams. But he denies any involvement in the scam. A Twi... Read More...

Mariah Carey's Worst-Selling Album Ranked on iTunes Top 100

Official Mariah Carey Twitter Account Hacked, Used to Send Racist Tweets

Ashley King

January 1, 2020

Public Domain The official Mariah Carey Twitter account was hacked late New Year's Eve. The pop diva's account sent several racist tweets and commented on Nick Cannon's beef with Eminem. The hacker focused o... Read More...

Instagram Influencers Blasted for Promoting Saudi Arabian Music Festival MDL Beast

Colin Cohen

December 23, 2019

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A number of Instagram influencers are getting blasted on social media for promoting a Saudi Arabian electronic dance music festival called MDL Beast. In exchange for receiving as much as six-figure compensat... Read More...

Snapchat Docuseries ‘Tekashi69 vs. The World’ Has Arrived

Ashley King

December 20, 2019

Photo Credit: Tekashi69 Instagram Snapchat Originals has just released a new trailer for a docuseries delving into the life of Tekashi 6ix9ine. The Snap Original 'Tekashi69 vs. The World' will premiere this ... Read More...

TikTok Secretly Hid Content From Fat, Queer, and Disabled Users

Ashley King

December 5, 2019

TikTok has admitted it adopted a set of policies to suppress the content of 'vulnerable' creators. TikTok says the policy was to prevent cyberbullying but hints at censorship. Moderators for the app were ask... Read More...

TikTok Says, ‘We Don’t Remove Content’ ⁠— Then Bans User Criticizing China

Ashley King

November 27, 2019

Photo Credit: TikTok TikTok executives are on a mission to refute evidence that the Chinese-owned social media app censors content. A 17-year-old in New Jersey was recently banned from TikTok for criticizing... Read More...

Portland Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Exploiting Children on TikTok

Colin Cohen

November 22, 2019

TikTok logo A U.S. federal court has sentenced a Portland, Oregon man to 15 years in prison for sexually exploiting two children he met on Musical.ly, which has since become TikTok. 33-year-old Juan Carlos R... Read More...

Neil Young Quits Facebook for Its Refusal to Fact-Check Political Ads

Ashley King

November 22, 2019

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Photo Credit: Takahiro Kyono / CC by 2.0 Neil Young has announced that he's quitting Facebook over its political ads stance. Young says he's also protesting Facebook's support of right-wing organizations. La... Read More...

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