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This year, the UW News social media team shared stories from the University of Washington community with reporters, news outlets and our social media followers. We also promoted special events happening around campus. Here are some of favorite moments from 2025. Welcome President Jones! The Board of Regents named Robert J. Jones the 34th President… […]
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Entrepreneur Mark Cuban is utilizing Sora, OpenAI’s social media platform, to his advantage. He has permitted users to create AI videos featuring him, which in turn serve as free advertisements for his pharmaceutical company, Cost Plus Drugs.Cuban granted permission last Thursday for Sora users to generate AI videos featuring him. This unprecedented move by a […]
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Young people in Nepal are leading protests against government corruption and a controversial social media ban.Protests erupted in Nepal on Monday after a controversial social media ban blocked people in the country from accessing most forms of social media. The youth-led “Gen Z” protests over the social media ban and government corruption triggered a violent […]
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Billionaire Elon Musk is a self-proclaimed man of many hats, leading several companies with titles like chairman, CEO and founder.A recent Benzinga reader survey revealed which of the companies Musk leads would be the favorite for investors if they had access to all his companies, both public and private.What Happened: Musk is best known as […]
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Meta may have managed to kill a bipartisan bill to protect children online, but parents of children who have suffered from online harm are still putting pressure on social media companies to step up. On Thursday, 45 families who lost children to online harms – from sextortion to cyberbullying – held a vigil outside of […]
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Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most certainly bluer. It’s been over two years since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now X, leading people to set up shop on alternative platforms. Mastodon, Post, Pebble (two of which have already shuttered operations) and Spill have been presented as […]
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Meta’s Threads has begun testing a new feature that would allow people to add their interests to their profile on the social network. Instead of only advertising to profile visitors the sort of topics you might post about, the new interests feature will also direct users to active conversations about the topic. The company thinks […]
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The Meta-owned platform has acknowledged that users hated it yet they were doing it on purpose.You open up Instagram on your smartphone and immediately see an intriguing video on your feed. Suddenly, before you can even dive into the clip, the feed refreshes, and the video is gone.It seems like something like that would be […]
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X will reportedly charge third-party developers extra monthly ‘per account’ feesElon Musk’s X appears to be adding yet another fee for third party apps, according to an affected app developer.After acquiring then-Twitter, Musk made big sweeping changes to the platform’s API, which allows third-party developers to integrate X into their platforms. The biggest change? Charging […]
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In late 2022, long before multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk decided to rename the company to X, rumors swirled that the mercurial CEO was getting ready to shake up Twitter’s verification system. His proposal: charge each subscriber for the privilege of being verified without ever doing the homework of actually verifying their identity — an […] […]
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