“He Sold His Likeness. Now His Avatar Is Shilling Supplements on TikTok” (NYT). #smmm2025 #smle2026 #AI #tech
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Swift’s talk “seen more than 11.7 million times on YouTube (with) — clips distributed on Instagram, TikTok, X and elsewhere have received more than 400 million views, and the episode was also available for streaming on audio platforms” (AP). #tech #smmm2025
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“The Supreme Court on Thursday refused for now to block enforcement of a Mississippi law aimed at regulating the use of social media by children, an issue of growing national concern” (AP). #smprofs #smle2026 #smmm2025
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“YouTube on Wednesday will begin testing a new age-verification system in the U.S. that relies on artificial intelligence to differentiate between adults and minors, based on the kinds of videos that they have been watching” (AP). #smmm2025 #smle2026 #smprofs #AI #tech
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“What was intended as a fundraising mission for cancer research has become a nightmare for American teen influencer Ethan Guo, who has been stuck since June in a remote location in Chilean territory in Antarctica” (AP). #smprofs #smle2026 #smmm2025
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“Does the band or artist have social media accounts? Lack of a social presence might indicate there’s no one there. If they do exist online, examine the kind of content they post, and how long it goes back” (AP). #AI#smprofs #smmm2025 #aejmc25
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“Hard-right commentators, politicians and activists in Europe have uncovered a secret to expanding their influence: engaging with Elon Musk” (AP).
#smprofs #aejmc25 #smmm2025
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Zuck’s #AI “Super-intelligence” — “The A.I. will help Meta’s advertising business by improving its social media feed to keep users on its apps longer, which is already happening,…” (NYT).
#smprofs #smmm2025 #aejmc25
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“The company earned $18.34 billion, or $7.14 per share, in the April-June period. That’s up 36% from $13.47 billion, or $5.16 per share, in the same period a year earlier” (AP). #smprofs #smmm2025 #smmm2025
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“The U.S. State Department says it is restarting the process for foreigners to apply for student visas but says all applicants must have their social media accounts set to ‘public’ to allow review by officials” (AP). #smprofs #smmm2025 #smle2026 #highered
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“Elon Musk ’s X sued Tuesday to try to stop New York from requiring reports on how social media platforms handle problematic posts — a regulatory approach that the company successfully challenged in California” (AP). #smprofs #smmm2025 #smle2026
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“Meta is making its first major minority investment in an outside company as it tries to catch up to a growing field of artificial intelligence rivals” (NYT).
#smprofs #smmm2025 #AI
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“Khaby Lame, the world’s most popular TikTok personality with millions of followers, has left the U.S. after being detained by immigration agents in Las Vegas for allegedly overstaying his visa” (AP). #smmm2025 #smle2026 #smprofs
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“Seattle-based Getty has argued that the development of the AI image maker, called Stable Diffusion, involved ‘brazen infringement’ of Getty’s photography collection ‘on a staggering scale’” (AP). #tech #smprofs #smmm2025 #smle2026
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“Throngs of gamers stood in long lines outside of stores hours before they opened Thursday from Tokyo to New York City in hopes of snaring a long-awaited Nintendo Switch 2 video game console” (AP). #tech #smmm2025 #smprofs
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“US President Donald Trump's administration has ordered US embassies around the world to stop scheduling appointments for student visas as it prepares to expand social media vetting of such applicants” (BBC).
#smprofs #highered #smmm2025 #smle2026
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“TikTok’s ad repository isn’t up to the standards required by the bloc’s Digital Services Act, known as the DSA, the 27-nation EU’s executive Commission said in preliminary findings from its investigation” (AP).
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“Google will pay $1.4 billion to Texas to settle claims the company collected users’ data without permission, the state’s attorney general announced Friday” (AP). #smmm2025 #smle2026 #smprofs
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“Georgia on Thursday became the eighth state to see its law requiring parental consent for children to use social media challenged in court” (WABE). #smmm2025 #smle2026 #smprofs
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“Baby boomers overwhelmingly prefer organic marketing to paid tactics” (NeilPatel).
#smmm2025 #smprofs #boomers
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“And when they can’t see their replies in-stream, or they’re not getting through as they think they should, some people are always going to assume that they’re being limited, when they’re really not” (Social Media Today). #smmm2025 #smprofs
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“It has disrupted traditional television and given rise to a world of video creators who make content catering to every imaginable niche interest” (NYTimes). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/t... #smmm2025 #smle2026 #smc2027 #smprofs #prprofs
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“The New York Times found three users on X who feuded with Mr. Musk in December only to see their reach on the social platform practically vanish overnight” #smmm2025 #smle2026 #smprofs #prprofs
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“European Union watchdogs fined Apple and Meta hundreds of millions of euros Wednesday as they stepped up enforcement of the 27-nation bloc’s digital competition rules” (AP). #smmm2025 #smle2026 #smprofs #prprofs
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“New restrictions on semiconductor exports to China are scrambling sales and fueling concerns that the Chinese tech giant will become a chip-making powerhouse” (NYTimes). #tech #smprofs #smmm2025 #smle2026
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“The State Department has shut down its office that sought to deal with misinformation and disinformation that Russia, China and Iran have been accused of spreadin (AP).
#smprofs #prprofs #smmm2025 #smle2026
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China launches wartime propaganda on social media (Reuters). #smmm2025 #smprofs #prprofs
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“Ireland’s data privacy watchdog said Friday it’s investigating Elon Musk’s social media platform X over its use of personal data to train his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok” (AP). #AI #smmm2025 #smle2026 #smprofs #prprofs
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“Former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams testified …Wednesday, accusing the social media company of undermining national security and briefing China on U.S. artificial intelligence efforts in order to grow its business there” (AP). #smle2026 #smmm2025 #smprofs
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