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The Supreme Court sided with the White House in a challenge to the administration’s efforts to curb disinformation on social media. In a 6-3 ruling, the justices ruled that two states and five social media users lacked standing to show that First Amendment rights were violated as Biden administration…

EXCLUSIVE: Formats powerhouse Banijay, which produces and sells the likes of Big Brother, Survivor and Total Wipeout around the world, has lashed out at social media and YouTube copycat versions of some of TV’s biggest hits. Lucas Green, the French-headquartered outfit’s Chief Content Officer of…

"Exactly" That's what Elon Musk replied today to a post on X that cast doubt on the integrity of OpenAI after its recent voiceover squabble with Scarlett Johansson. If that had been it, this would have been just another instance of the impulsive billionaire firing off again on the social media…

UPDATED with exec comments. Blake Chandlee, President, Global Business Solutions at ByteDance / TikTok, kicked off the company’s NewFronts presentation in New York with a thank-you to advertisers and push-back against government critics. “I want you to know, we are not backing down,” he said. He…

Snapchat parent Snap Inc. made a flurry of announcements during its NewFronts presentation to advertisers, including team-ups with Issa Rae and Live Nation as well as the launch of an in-app sports channel. At the event Wednesday night in New York, the company said it has also renewed its agreements…

The ever-glamorous Christie Brinkley posted a decidedly unglamorous photo on social media — an image that showed her recovering from a procedure to remove skin cancer near her left eye. “The good news for me is we caught the basal cell Carcinoma early, she wrote on Instagram (see the post below)…

UPDATED with resolution of outage. Instagram and Facebook returned to full operation mid-day Tuesday following a 2-hour outage. Andy Stone, a spokesman for parent company Meta Platforms, issued an update and an apology on X, formerly Twitter. “Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have…

UPDATE: Supreme Court justices have been grappling all morning on the question of whether social media platforms are neutral gatekeepers, or whether their content moderation practices count as expressive activity protected by the First Amendment. The justices raised a series of questions over the…

Shares in social media firm Snap Inc. plunged as much as 30% in after-hours trading following the company’s release of muted fourth-quarter results. The SnapChat parent’s numbers were roughly in line with Wall Street analysts’ expectations, making the stock movement all the more intriguing. Adjusted…

Reddit appears to be moving closer to a long-anticipated IPO. Citing sources, the news agency Reuters reported that the tech company could make the move to go public as soon as March and has been drawing up paperwork toward that end. Reddit had filed a confidential SEC registration in 2021 as it…

Despite Elon Musk’s vow to file a “thermonuclear lawsuit” against Media Matters the “split second” that courts opened today, the X/Twitter owner’s legal action has yet to materialize. Meanwhile, with a number of major advertisers on the sidelines over concerns about antisemitism on the platform, CEO…

Carol Vorderman has become the first presenter to leave a BBC role over its new social media guidelines. The presenter, who is a frequent political poster on X/Twitter, revealed she is leaving her Saturday morning radio show on BBC Radio Wales after five years after — aptly with a social media…