Twitter bans comedian Kathy Griffin for impersonating Elon Musk

Posted on November 7, 2022 by Admin

Users adopt Musk’s name after he announces suspension of accounts pretending to be someone else

Elon Musk has banned a US comedian’s Twitter account after taking on users who impersonate him on the platform.

Twitter’s new owner announced an immediate ban on accounts pretending to be someone else without flagging them as parodies. The move resulted in the removal of an “Elon Musk” account held by the comedian Kathy Griffin, who had changed her account name to match that of the Tesla chief executive.

TikTok tells European users its staff in China get access to their data

Posted on November 2, 2022 by Admin

Privacy policy update confirms data of continent’s users available to range of TikTok bases including in Brazil, Israel and US

TikTok is spelling out to its European users that their data can be accessed by employees outside the continent, including in China, amid political and regulatory concerns about Chinese access to user information on the platform.

The Chinese-owned social video app is updating its privacy policy to confirm that staff in countries, including China, are allowed to access user data to ensure their experience of the platform is “consistent, enjoyable and safe”.

Banned Twitter accounts will not be reinstated until after US midterms

Posted on November 2, 2022 by Admin

Elon Musk says setting up process over those barred, including Donald Trump, will take ‘at least a few more weeks’

Banned Twitter accounts including Donald Trump’s will not be reinstated until after the US midterm elections at least, the platform’s new owner, Elon Musk, has said.

The Tesla chief executive’s statement came as a study revealed that Twitter had taken down six disinformation networks on the platform linked to China and Iran that had been tweeting about the 8 November elections.

From Ed Balls to BTS: the greatest hits in Twitter’s history

Posted on October 29, 2022 by Admin

To mark the site’s takeover by the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, we present a survey of its most media-friendly moments

Twitter has great influence for a social media platform. It has a comparatively modest 230 million users, given that the likes of Instagram, Facebook and TikTok have user bases that run into the billions. But Twitter is beloved of politicians, celebrities, commentators and journalists and can have a great impact on the political and news cycle as a result. Here are some of the best-known and notorious tweets in the company’s 16-year history.

Vardy v Rooney: ‘Wagatha Christie’ play to hit West End stage

Posted on October 20, 2022 by Admin

Producer says trial asked questions about boundaries between privacy and celebrity and what it is to be a Wag

A play about the “Wagatha Christie” trial is to be staged in the West End by the producers behind Agatha Christie’s seminal drama Witness for the Prosecution.

Vardy v Rooney: the Wagatha Christie Trial, adapted from the original high court transcripts by Liv Hennessy and directed by Lisa Spirling, brings the legal battle between Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney to life for one night only this autumn.

Social media firms ‘monetising misery’, says Molly Russell’s father after inquest

Posted on September 30, 2022 by Admin

Coroner finds harmful online content likely to have contributed to Molly’s death ‘in a more than minimal way’

Molly Russell’s father has accused the world’s biggest social media firms of “monetising misery” after an inquest ruled that harmful online content contributed to the 14-year-old’s death.

Ian Russell accused Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, of guiding his daughter on a “demented trail of life-sucking content”, after the landmark ruling raised the regulatory pressure on social media companies.

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Class or crass? Brands walk a fine line in marking Queen’s death

Posted on September 10, 2022 by Admin

Posts by Playmobil and Legoland Windsor provoked comment, as did the Queen Elizabeth II workout

Charles proclaimed King – live updates

Content is king, in #marketingspeak at least, but many brands have discovered that the Queen is not content.

In the tumult of reaction to news of the Queen’s death, social media managers struggled to work out the best way to communicate to their customers.

Queen’s death intensifies criticism of British empire’s violent atrocities

Posted on September 10, 2022 by Admin

American commentators, academics and others are calling into reconsideration of monarchy’s lasting influences

The death of Queen Elizabeth II revived longstanding criticism in the US over the monarchy’s enrichment from the British empire’s violent colonization of African, Asian and Caribbean nations and their diasporas.

Since her death on Thursday, American commentators, academics, and a former US diplomat, among others, took to social media and elsewhere to call for fully wrestling with the British monarchy’s lasting influence in light of the monarch’s death.

Hope not hate: England women football team enjoy positive social media posts

Posted on August 24, 2022 by Admin

Study shows female Euro players got 125 positive posts for each hate one – in contrast to abuse directed at England men

The vast majority of social media posts directed at England women’s triumphant Euro 2022 football players across a three-month period were positive, research has found.

The study of 78,141 posts on Twitter, Reddit and the imageboard website 4chan identified more than 50,000 positive posts – roughly one “hate” post for every 125 “hope” ones.