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Anheuser-Busch exec steps down after Bud Light sales slump following Dylan Mulvaney controversy

19Nov

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Anheuser-Busch exec steps down after Bud Light sales slump following Dylan Mulvaney controversy

Anheuser-Busch CEO on Dylan Mulvaney backlash Anheuser-Busch CEO: Bud Light should be bringing people together 07:52 Anheuser-Busch InBev's U.S. chief marketing officer is leaving the beverage giant following public backlash over a promotion that led to a sharp drop in sales of Bud light, one of the company's most important products.Benoit Garbe, who joined Anheuser-Busch in 2021, will resign at the end of the year "in order to embark on a n...

17Nov

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TikTok’s Osama bin Laden Fiasco

TikTok’s hot new social-media influencer is . . . Osama bin Laden. Yes, the terrorist who plotted 9/11 went viral this week, and not in a good way. Users have been posting videos to the Chinese-owned app, urging their followers to read bin Laden’s 2002 “letter to America,” while suggesting he was on to something. “I will never look at this country the same,” one user said.The videos racked up hundreds of thousands of views. TikTok said Thursday it is “aggressively removing” such content. “The number of videos on TikTok is small and reports of it trending on our platform are inaccurate,” the company said. Then it blamed critics and journalists for noticing, saying that all the attention was driving more traffic to the posts. The British newspaper the Guardian unpublished its copy of the bi...

Martin Scorsese Hilariously Admits He’s ‘Tricked Into’ Making TikToks With Daughter Francesca

17Nov

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Martin Scorsese Hilariously Admits He’s ‘Tricked Into’ Making TikToks With Daughter Francesca

The internet is pretty happy that acclaimed filmmaker Martin Scorsese has branched out from a behind-the-screens cinematic genius to starring in front of the camera as a social media sensation that we all didn’t know we needed. If you’re familiar with TikTok, then you’ve probably come across a few of his daughter Francesca’s short videos, which range from her hilariously asking the Oscar winner to guess slang words such as “sneaky link” to candid moments from the star’s everyday life.In a new interview with the Los Angeles Times, Scorsese, 81, revealed that he was actually adorably bamboozled by Francesca into making the videos that have garnered millions of views. “I was tricked into that,” Scorsese said of a recent TikTok, in which fans were floored to witness him rank 2014’s “Birdman” ...

TikTok is ending its Creator Fund, which paid users for making content

8Nov

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TikTok is ending its Creator Fund, which paid users for making content

TikTok is suspending its Creator Fund, a $1 billion allotment to pay the app's users for creating successful content. The company is replacing the fund with another program that it said will pay creators more money. The fund was rolled out in 2021, giving successful creators – people who make TikTok videos with at least 100k views – an opportunity to apply to make money off their videos. TikTok, which launched the fund with $200 million in 2020, said at the time it would hit $1 billion in the U.S. in three years. CBS News has reached out to TikTok to confirm how much it paid out. But some creators complained about how little they made from the fund. In January 2022, after creator Hank Green complained about TikTok's Creator Fund in a YouTube video, some...

Greece’s New Political Star Is a TikTok Creation

29Oct

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Greece’s New Political Star Is a TikTok Creation

On the night that Greece’s biggest left-wing party voted for its new leader, all anyone could talk about was pizza. At stake was the future of the Syriza party, which had run Greece at the head of a coalition government from 2015 to 2019. As the votes came in on September 19, one of the candidates, Stefanos Kasselakis, was holed up in his campaign headquarters. Over the previous few weeks, Kasselakis, a former Goldman Sachs associate and shipowner, had emerged seemingly from nowhere to become the frontrunner, and journalists were camped outside his office. As the evening drew on, his team ordered pizzas. Kasselakis—young, handsome, sporting carefully combed hair and wearing a shirt open at the collar with rolled-up sleeves—came down to the lobby with his partner, Tyler McBeth, to collect ...

22Oct

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TikTok steps up efforts to counter misinformation about Israel-Hamas war

London CNN — TikTok is stepping up efforts to counter misinformation, incitement to violence and hate relating to the Israel-Hamas war on its online platform, it announced Sunday, days after the European Union (EU) warned social media companies they risked falling foul of the bloc’s content moderation laws. As part of its measures, TikTok is launching a command center to coordinate the work of its “safety professionals” around the world, improving the software it uses to automatically detect and remove graphic and violent content, and hiring more Arabic and Hebrew speakers to moderate content. TikTok said in a statement that, following the brutal attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians on October 7, ...

20Oct

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EU asks Meta for more details on efforts to stop Israel-Hamas war misinformation

London CNN — The European Union has told Meta it has a week to explain in greater detail how it is fighting the spread of illegal content and disinformation on its Facebook and Instagram platforms following the attacks across Israel by Hamas. The European Commission, the bloc’s executive arm, said it had sent the formal request for information to Meta (META) Thursday. The commission also asked TikTok for more information on the steps it had taken to prevent the spread of “terrorist and violent content and hate speech,” it said, but without referring to the Israel-Hamas war. Last week, EU Commissioner Thierry Breton wrote to several social media companies, including Meta and TikTok, gi...

How Social Media Abdicated Responsibility for the News

18Oct

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How Social Media Abdicated Responsibility for the News

In February of last year, when Russia invaded Ukraine, the horror of war filtered out into the world through user-generated videos on TikTok. Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines and civilians sheltering in their homes posted videos showing advancing tanks, bombed-out apartment blocks, and rations packages being delivered to troops. Both the volume and the intimacy of the footage seemed unprecedented; the conflict was quickly dubbed the “first TikTok war.” Ten days ago, the eruption of violence between Hamas and Israel became the second major war of that new era of social media. But social media has changed to a surprising degree in the intervening year and a half. Across the major platforms, our feeds are less reliable sources of authentic crowdsourced news than they ever were—which was...

15Oct

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EU officials warn TikTok over Israel-Hamas disinformation

CNN — EU officials warned TikTok Thursday about “illegal content and disinformation” on its platform linked to the war between Hamas and Israel, calling for CEO Shou Zi Chew to respond within 24 hours. In a letter to Chew, European Commissioner Thierry Breton said failure to comply with European Union laws around content moderation could result in penalties. It is the third such letter Breton has sent to large social media platforms this week, after he sent similar warnings to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, and Meta. In August, a recently passed EU law known as the Digital Services Act went into effect for large online platforms including the companies Breton addressed t...

Federal judge rips into Montana’s statewide TikTok ban in preliminary injunction hearing

15Oct

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Federal judge rips into Montana’s statewide TikTok ban in preliminary injunction hearing

CNN — A Montana federal judge on Thursday tore into a contested state law that bans TikTok from all personal devices, saying in a hearing that the legislation appears driven by “paternalistic” views of social media users and suggesting lawmakers could have taken many steps short of an attempted ban to achieve their goals. The sharp criticism of Montana’s legislature and attorney general comes as TikTok and a group of content creators on the platform have sought a ruling temporarily blocking the law. The legal battle is closely watched because it is viewed as a bellwether for TikTok’s future in the United States, where dozens of states and the US government have already banned the app on official ...