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Byline: Taylor Lorenz - - - Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly identified Karl Folk as a researcher at Augsburg University. Folk is a student at Augsburg, but [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Mingling with the top brass and world leaders at the NATO summit in Washington this week will be some fresher faces on a unique mission: social media [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Caroline Gleich, the Utah Democrat vying to replace retiring Sen. Mitt Romney (R), is asking the Federal Election Commission to update its rules for the age of [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz The power of online content creators has made them darlings of corporate marketing crucial to the launch of new products. Meta knows better than most how influential [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Correction: After this article was published, The Washington Post received additional information about the methodology used for the YouTube survey and determined that it does not meet [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz A day after Joe Biden's halting performance in the first presidential debate fueled a surge of memes, the White House on Friday unveiled plans to host a [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz You already knew Taylor Swift was a generational megastar whose shows can swell local economies and literally shake the earth. But now Swift's gravitational force is set [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz In 2020, hundreds of top TikTok content creators banded together in service of a single goal: get Joe Biden elected. They posted videos, hosted online events and [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz An artificial intelligence start-up says it has found thousands of vulnerabilities in popular generative AI programs and released a list of its discoveries. After testing popular generative [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz A group of TikTok creators have been selected by Substack for a year-long incubator program aimed at helping them expand their reach and businesses. The program, called [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz, Drew Harwell Eight TikTok creators sued the U.S. government Tuesday over a new law that would force the sale or ban of the popular video app, arguing [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz As hundreds of police officers descended on UCLA's campus last week, Bret Hamilton, a 31-year-old Twitch streamer who covers news and politics, documented their every move. He [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz The newsletter platform Substack is attempting to court TikTok creators with the launch of a new program for video stars that will help turn their TikTok channels [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz With the passage of the bill that could effectively ban TikTok, ByteDanceâs other major product, the short form video editor CapCut, is in jeopardy. Multiple House aides [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz, Gus Garcia-Roberts John Hart-Battles, a 17-year-old high school junior in Oklahoma, joined Planet Fitness last June to keep in shape as a member of his schoolÇÖs color [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Hundreds of political and news content creators, along with activists, meme account administrators and journalists, have signed an open letter to Meta asking the company to reverse [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz, Meryl Kornfield In the polls, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a long shot independent presidential candidate, struggling to compete against the well-funded incumbent and his spotlight-grabbing predecessor. [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Over the past few years, a very specific style of video editing has all but guaranteed success on social media. Known as âretention editingâ because of its [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz The LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD issued a report Wednesday documenting dozens of anti-trans posts on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, MetaÇÖs primary social media outlets, and calling on [...]

Byline: Ian Duncan, Taylor Lorenz The nationÇÖs top aviation safety officials sought to reassure travelers this week that flying in the United States remains incredibly safe, despite a series of [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz YouTube star MrBeast has struck a deal with Amazon MGM to produce a massive reality TV competition game show - a watershed moment for the entertainment industry [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz House lawmakers making impassioned arguments for shutting down TikTok last week overwhelmingly persuaded their fellow representatives, but repeated many claims that are false, unproven or disputed. Here [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz TikTok drove $14.7 billion in small-business ownersâ revenue in 2023 and contributed $24.2 billion to U.S. gross domestic product last year, according to a company-paid report issued [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Small-business owners, educators, activists and young people who use TikTok were scrambling to respond Wednesday after the House approved a proposal to ban the popular app, with [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has gone from a sleepy string of towns on the San Francisco Peninsula packed with hard-working tech geeks to an [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz TikTok drove $14.7 billion in small-business ownersâ revenue in 2023 and contributed $24.2 billion to U.S. gross domestic product last year, according to a report issued Wednesday. [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Small-business owners, educators, activists and young people who say they benefit from TikTok were scrambling on how to respond Wednesday after the House passed a bill that [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz In late November, popular influencers including Emily Mariko and Rachel Mansfield began posting videos of themselves making âthe viral roasted feta soup.â âFeta is having another moment!â [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz LOS ANGELES - Far-right activist Chaya Raichik splits her time between California, where sheâs registered to vote, and Florida, where she often travels. But the place where [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz President Biden officially joined TikTok on Sunday. The campaign announced his arrival on the platform with a video captioned ǣlol hey guys.ǥ In his first post, during [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz, Naomi Nix Meta announced on Friday it would stop proactively recommending political content on Instagram or its upstart text-based app Threads, alarming news and politics-focused creators and [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Recently, when the influencer Landon Romano uploaded a video, TikTok inserted a small search bar below his content with the phrase ǣLandon Romano HIV.ǥ Romano, a gay [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz A company best known for its posts on Instagram announced on Tuesday that it will try to capitalize on young peopleÇÖs growing use of social media for [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz YouTube released new details about its payments to creators on Tuesday, offering a pledge to continue its commitment to long-form storytelling as it faces a challenge from [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz TikTok is offering incentives to content creators to post long, horizontal videos. The platform began sending alerts to a select group of creators in recent weeks, telling [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka, Taylor Lorenz - - - Correction: A previous version of this article misstated the name of the group of social media influencers that worked in 2020 support [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz As the war in Gaza rages on, and both sides battle for support and public attention, supporters of Israel are making use of tools that allow them [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz As soon as Marc Sebastian, a 33-year-old content creator, heard about Royal Caribbeanâs nine-month Ultimate World Cruise, which departed in January to travel the world, he knew [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz and Will Oremus One of the newsletter platform Substack's most prominent writers is abandoning the platform over its decision not to moderate praise for Nazis and pro-Holocaust [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz When Joseph Arujo, a 20-year-old content creator and student in Los Angeles, began seeing 2023 recap videos in his feed last month, he began scouring his hard [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz LOS ANGELES - California state senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego) has announced plans to introduce a bill aimed at protecting child influencers from financial exploitation, a move [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz When Elon Musk reinstated far-right influencer and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's account on X on Sunday night, digital marketer and activist Nandini Jammi sprang into action. She [...]

Byline: Herb Scribner and Taylor Lorenz CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article misidentified actress Jenna Ortega as Jenny. The article has been corrected. - - - Netflix released its [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz The biggest online phenomenon of the year is an animated video series that primarily appeals to children, filled with obscure internet and gaming references that most adults [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Every morning before school, Evelyn, a seventh-grader in suburban Kansas City, props her iPhone up against the mirror of her vanity, applies a series of makeup and [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Substack, a platform created largely for newsletters, is rolling out a suite of new video creation and editing tools - a sign of how critical video has [...]

Byline: Jeff Stein and Taylor Lorenz On Dec. 20, 2022, Topher Olive went to a McDonald's in the town of Post Falls, Idaho, and ordered a limited edition 'smoky' double [...]