Black Mirror actor Will Poulter explains why he quit Twitter after Bandersnatch release

Why Netflix's Adolescence is a wake-up call to society

The age of social media has transformed the world and is shaping communication, culture, politics, business, and even personal identity, today. What’s going on with our society?’” But the web series is layered and as you dig deeper, you realise how social media contributed extensively to shaping 13-year-old Jamie Miller’s personality, self-image, self-esteem, fragile ego and the social isolation he …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

John Abraham explains why he stays off social media: People hit you below the belt

India Today

John Abraham is one actor who doesn’t use social media to promote his films or work. John said that one should decide whose opinions truly matter, "So, I think you need to understand and demarcate who matters to you and who doesn't. I've done it for so many years.” Speaking about how toxic social media can get, John added, “People …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Maya Hawke says some producers cast actors on basis of social media following

Hindustan Times

Los Angeles, "Stranger Things" star Maya Hawke says number of followers on social media apps plays an important role in getting a project greenlit today. Maya Hawke says some producers cast actors on basis of social media following While she is not a fan of platforms like Instagram, the actor-singer said some producers ask directors to ensure that the actors …

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1 month, 1 week ago

What I found when I tried to unplug from social media

CNN

CNN — I noticed the compulsive behaviors first. “It also made me think, if we could quit social media in general — like we all would honestly probably love to do — what are we losing connection-wise?” she asked. “Social media platforms, in and of themselves, can be seen as intrinsically neutral,” said Daniel Miller, director of University College London’s …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

6 News anchor Leo Puglisi is not your average 17-year-old

ABC

During the long summer holidays between primary school and high school, that imperceptible threshold where childhood is left behind, Leo Puglisi rebranded his news channel. On the first day of 2020, Leo's channel HMV — which stood for Hawthorn, Melbourne Victoria, "like the old TV call signs" he says — became 6 News. With Australians under the age of 16 …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Exclusive: Naga Chaitanya on social media criticism and staying grounded

India Today

Coming from an illustrious film lineage, Naga Chaitanya has carved a niche for himself in the industry, making choices that reflect his individuality rather than the weight of his legacy. Currently seen in Thandel, the actor spoke exclusively with India Today Digital about staying grounded, dealing with social media criticism, and embracing career highs and lows. There’s still a long …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Gregg Wallace returns to social media months after MasterChef scandal

The Independent

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Social Network star Jesse Eisenberg no longer wants to be ‘associated’ with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg; here’s why

Live Mint

Jesse Eisenberg, who received immense appreciation for his role as Mark Zuckerberg in the 2010 film The Social Network, has said he no longer wants to be “associated” with the Meta CEO. The movie, based on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, proved to be a major milestone in his life and a major link between him and the tech billionaire. In …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Jesse Eisenberg Is Done Being 'Associated' With 'Problematic' Mark Zuckerberg

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Jesse Eisenberg doesn’t even want to be Facebook friends with Mark Zuckerberg. The “Social Network” star told BBC Radio 4’s “Today” program Tuesday that just because he played the Meta CEO and Facebook co-founder in a movie, he doesn’t ally himself in any way with Zuckerberg — and was eager to distance himself as much as possible …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Porn star says his career was destroyed by false claims he nearly killed a dog with meth

The Independent

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Stephen Fry says there’s one modern invention he wants to ‘destroy’

The Independent

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

TikTok's woes in the United States highlight the 'Godfather' battle to control social media

ABC

Social media users and content creators should be able to ditch and switch platforms without losing their followers, renegade economist Yanis Varoufakis argues. "There is fierce competition across social media from the likes of TikTok, X, YouTube, Reddit, SnapChat, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram and many others," they argue. " Sydney TikTok influencer and self-professed "salad lady" Fidan Shevket started cross-posting her …

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Swara Bhasker slams Twitter for ‘permanently suspending’ her account over a ‘Republic Day wish’

Hindustan Times

Actor Swara Bhasker took to Instagram to share her frustration after her X account was permanently suspended. The actor shared her frustration about how two of her tweets, including a Republic Day wish, were marked for copyright infringement. Swara Bhasker on Twitter account suspension Swara posted screenshots of the notices she received from X, apart from the posts that were …

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2 months ago

Man Misses Flight After IndiGo Changes Flight Timings: 'Was Offered Rs 6,000 To Delete Social Media Post'

ABP News

A passenger who missed his IndiGo flight due to short-notice schedule changes alleged that the airline attempted to bribe him into deleting a social media post that went viral, criticising the airline's handling of the situation. Gupta alleged that the airline offered him Rs 6,000 to delete a critical post about their services on social media platform X. “How do …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Brad Pitt’s team reminds fans he’s not on social media after a woman gets big-time scammed

LA Times

After a French woman said she was conned by scammers pretending to be Brad Pitt, the actor’s spokesperson reminded fans that the A-list actor is not on social media. “It’s awful that scammers take advantage of fans’ strong connection with celebrities, but this is an important reminder to not respond to unsolicited online outreach, especially from actors who have no …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be

Wired

If you dwell in certain internet neighborhoods long enough, the rules of governing, however absurd or toxic, become second nature. Even fans of the platform would refer to it as “the hellsite.” But people stayed, largely because there didn’t seem to be a viable alternative. “Trying to find my niche subset of humor on here,” @lvteef posted on December 3, …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Fred Hechinger lives out his circus dream

The Independent

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Get reprimanded for not being active on social media, says Saiyami Kher

Hindustan Times

Mumbai, Actor Saiyami Kher says she is often asked by people in the film industry to be "out there" on social media, a piece of advice she finds difficult to follow. Get reprimanded for not being active on social media, says Saiyami Kher Kher, known for work in “Choked”, “Ghoomer”, and “Breathe: Into The Shadows", said one has to project …

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4 months ago

Elon Musk confirms that he’s limiting people’s ability to share outside news on X

The Independent

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4 months ago

Growing social media app vows to shake up ‘toxic’ status quo

The Independent

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5 months ago

Twitter brain drain: Academic exodus followed Elon Musk’s takeover

The Independent

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5 months, 1 week ago

‘I’m Out’: Jelly Roll Says He’s Quitting X, ‘Most Toxic Negative App To Ever Exist’

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Over the weekend, the country musician, 39, announced that he’s leaving the social media platform, slamming it as “toxic.” “This is for sure the most toxic negative app to exist ever — PERIOD. lol,” Jelly Roll, whose real name is Jason Bradley DeFord, posted on Sunday. It’s a safe place for everyone to say mean shit to …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Danny Dyer slams Keir Starmer in furious rant: ‘Why Angela Rayner’s not leading things I don’t know’

The Independent

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

"Completely shocked": What Lauren Greenfield learned following LA teens and their phones for a year

Salon

Lauren Greenfield and I both know quite a bit about what it means to be steeped in the world of teens and internet culture, albeit for different reasons. So in that kind of spread, I think the way young people use social media completely changed." That's kind of where they end up, at the end saying, “We just need to …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

The internet helped make JJ Redick the next Lakers coach. Now he’s unplugging

LA Times

Lakers coach JJ Redick, listening to general manager Rob Pelinka address the media last week, became an internet sensation as a broadcaster and podcaster. “It’s a dark place,” Redick said of social media to Bleacher Report in 2018. If I’m going to be commentating on the discourse on ‘First Take’ or if I’m going to be commentating on the discourse …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

‘How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter’ authors say platform is ‘a tool for controlling political discourse’

LA Times

Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter is the subject of a new book, “Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter,” out Sept. 17. On the Shelf Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter By Kate Conger and Ryan Mac Penguin Press: 480 pages, $32 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Peep Show’s Matt King leaves Twitter after discovering disturbing video on the platform

The Independent

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Ben Stiller reveals why he stopped taking lead roles for seven years

The Independent

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Bill Belichick, 72, makes shock social media move amid romance with Gen Z girlfriend and new ESPN gig

Daily Mail

Former New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick is trying plenty of new things now that he's out of an NFL coaching job. Bill Belichick has officially joined Instagram - his first foray into social media at the ager of 72 - amid his romance with 23-year-old Jordan Hudson Within hours of the account going live, Belichick already amassed thousands of …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Bob Tischler death: Producer and writer who helped save Saturday Night Live dies aged 78

The Independent

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

'I am NOT a monster. I am not abusive.' Strictly star Graziano breaks silence after he was dropped from the show following anonymous complaints - and in world-first interview reveals what really happe

Daily Mail

Graziano Di Prima is in pieces. A month ago, Graziano, one of Strictly Come Dancing's most likeable professional dancers, was dropped from the show following anonymous complaints from 'third parties'. Four days after he was told he was being dropped from Strictly on July 9, unnamed BBC sources claimed 'shock footage' of 'heated' rehearsals with his celebrity partner and former …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Arshad Warsi speaks out against social media’s influence on kids: You're consuming sh*t

Hindustan Times

Actor Arshad Warsi, who is also a dad to son Zeke and daughter Zene, feels outraged at the kind of impact social media have on today’s generation. Actor Arshad Warsi “The whole thing about, ‘You have to try everything’ has become the new norm. Matlab har woh cheez joh purkho ke zamaane se chali aa rahi hai, humare maa baap …

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8 months ago

James Woods’ Oppenheimer credit ‘kept quiet’ over fears his pro-Trump Twitter could threaten film’s success

The Independent

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

South Dakota Gov. Noem's official social media accounts seem to disappear without explanation

The Independent

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Vishwak Sen deletes Instagram. What's cooking?

Deccan Chronicle

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9 months ago

Jay Slater’s disappearance has exposed the horrifying cruelty of social media

The Independent

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9 months, 1 week ago

Yellowstone: Kevin Costner shares real reason he left cast of US series

The Independent

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9 months, 1 week ago

How Prentice Penny docuseries charts the good, the bad and the ugly of Black Twitter

LA Times

You’ve probably heard or read these phrases somewhere: “Oscars So White,” “Me Too,” “Say Her Name,” “Black Girl Magic,” “Black Lives Matter.” They’ve all become part of the national lexicon. Now that Twitter is called X and has lost its luster, former “Insecure” showrunner Prentice Penny and Wired writer Jason Parham have teamed up as executive producers to document those …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Staying off social media can be challenging. These teens also find it liberating

Associated Press

WESTPORT, Conn. — Kate Bulkeley’s pledge to stay off social media in high school worked at first. “Social media is now the air kids breathe,” says Rich, who runs the hospital’s Clinic for Interactive Media and Internet Disorders. WHEN IT’S EVERYWHERE, IT’S HARD TO AVOID At school, on the subway and at dance classes around New York City, Gabriela is …

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55 years, 2 months ago

Twitter Is Dead, Long Live the Portal

Wired

Leah Feiger: I can't wait to hear about all of that. But from 2020 onwards, once Donald Trump got kicked off the platform and there was a major shutdown on content in relation to Covid-19 and the vaccines, he became increasingly outraged at what he saw as this over-censorious thing where he felt that people of a certain viewpoint were …

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10 months, 1 week ago

"We've been doing that to survive": "Black Twitter" filmmaker on Black culture repurposing spaces

Salon

Why did you first join Twitter? “You get to see people's kind of the way they think.” Penny continued, “And I think that becomes much more of an interesting person to want to meet than just seeing a picture and not knowing what's happening here.” “Black Twitter" is based on Jason Parham’s Wired article “A People’s History of Black Twitter." …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

BBC star Gary Lineker says critics of his political views and online posts have a 'lack of empathy' and says he will carry on because he would be 'ashamed' to stay quiet

Daily Mail

Gary Lineker has suggested his critics lack empathy - and that he would be 'ashamed' of himself if he didn't speak out on social media. The England football legend condemned what he termed 'tribality' in social media and said he found a lack of empathy towards migrants 'incomprehensible'. The England football legend condemned what he termed 'tribality' in social media …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Antonio Brown's vile social media history after digs at Caitlin Clark

Daily Mail

Since storming out of his final NFL appearance two years ago, Antonio Brown's offensive and vulgar behavior on social media has known no limits. At the peak of his playing days Brown carved out a reputation as one of the best in the business; helping the Tampa Bay Buccaneers win the Super Bowl in 2021 and making it to the …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

The free jazz ensemble known as Black Twitter, and how it became the subject of a new docuseries

LA Times

Collective improvisation is a Black technology. A new docuseries on Hulu, “Black Twitter: A People’s History,” traces the path that the free jazz ensemble that is Black Twitter took in becoming an arbiter of cultural shifts time and again, a harbor of soft but insistent vigilantism. 143 — a number that first earned significance as the late ’90s pager code …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Black Twitter: A People’s History’ tells how humor and hashtags fostered a subculture

LA Times

When Hulu announced that it would be releasing a docuseries about Black Twitter, the streamer got an immediate earful from … Black Twitter. As one person posted on the platform, “The Black Twitter response to the Black Twitter doc is so very #BlackTwitter.” The makers of “Black Twitter: A People’s History,” the three-part series that premiered at the South by …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Influencer publishing is having a big moment with social media celebrities writing books

The Hindu

Last month, Penguin India, the largest English language books publisher in the subcontinent, threw a party in Mumbai. According to entrepreneur Ankur Warikoo, famous for his YouTube videos on personal finance — his most popular video is on “how to pay a 25-year loan in just 10 years” — when he first decided to pen a book, “I was writing …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Internet roasts man who used his engagement to talk about sales on LinkedIn: ‘LinkedIn is a disease’

The Independent

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10 months, 4 weeks ago

Aaron Sorkin writing Social Network ‘quasi-sequel’ because he blames Facebook for January 6 riot

The Independent

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11 months ago

Aaron Sorkin working on new Facebook movie tied to January 6 riots

The Hindu

Aaron Sorkin, Oscar-winning writer of The Social Network, is working on a follow-up movie about Facebook that will explore the company's role in the January 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol. Sorkin, who depicted the creation and early years of Facebook in 2010's The Social Network, said the tech giant has since then played a major role in the …

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11 months, 1 week ago

Journalist who accused NPR of liberal bias resigns from the network

LA Times

Uri Berliner, the veteran NPR journalist who publicly accused his employer of liberal bias, has resigned from the network. But I cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged by a new CEO whose divisive views confirm the very problems I cite in my Free Press essay.” Berliner, a business editor at the network, was suspended last Friday, four …

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Black Mirror actor Will Poulter explains why he quit Twitter after Bandersnatch release

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