Transgender social media influencer to talk with SLU students It was announced last week that transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney will be visiting Saint Louis University Monday. 04/20/2024 - 3:00 am | View Link
Bitcoin halving, Trump Media stock falling, and banks rising: Markets news roundup Bitcoin is going through its latest so-called “halving” event. The halving will cut the current reward for mining new coins from 6.25 Bitcoin to 3.125. Halving is an integral part of the Bitcoin ... 04/20/2024 - 2:00 am | View Link
Trump Media's trouble, Elon Musk's pay-to-tweet, Amazon's Prime Video problem: Business news roundup The firm responsible for auditing Trump Media & Technology Group was labeled as “so seriously deficient in its performance” that it was removed from a national peer review program. 04/20/2024 - 2:00 am | View Link
The TikTok ban misses the big picture: America’s social media literary problem Americans’ sources of information have declined in quality, and the problem goes beyond any one social media platform. 04/20/2024 - 1:59 am | View Link
Meet Emily Austin, the social media star behind DAZN’s Devin Haney-Ryan Garcia promotion Emily Austin, a sports and entertainment host who has recently begun dabbling in political commentary as well, was recently announced as DAZN’s social presenter throughout fight week. She was featured ... 04/20/2024 - 12:45 am | View Link
Social media Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks. [1] [2] Social media refer to new forms of media that involve interactive participation. 04/19/2024 - 4:10 am | View Website
Social media | Definition, History, Examples, & Facts ... social media, a form of mass media communications on the Internet (such as on websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos). Social networking and social media are overlapping concepts, but social networking is usually understood as users ... 04/19/2024 - 2:15 am | View Website
Social Media Use in 2021 | Pew Research Center To better understand Americans’ use of social media, online platforms and messaging apps, Pew Research Center surveyed 1,502 U.S. adults from Jan. 25 to Feb. 8, 2021, by cellphone and landline phone. 04/18/2024 - 8:32 pm | View Website
What is Social Media? Social media is a collective term for websites and applications that focus on communication, community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration. People use social media to stay in touch and interact with friends, family and various communities. 04/18/2024 - 6:44 pm | View Website
What Is Social Media? Social media are web-based communication tools that enable people to interact with each other by sharing and consuming information. Yes, it's a broad definition—but keep in mind that social media is a very broad term. 04/18/2024 - 1:01 pm | View Website
For civil rights activists like Amanda Nguyen and Kelley Robinson, the road to a more equal future can be long and difficult. Two things crucial for getting there, they said in conversation with CNN anchor Abby Philip at Wednesday’s TIME100 Summit, are joy and math.
“I think joy is the most radical form of rebellion,” said Nguyen, who was a key force behind passing the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Rights Act in 2016 (and is also an astronaut).
Though Phoebe Robinson and Alex Edelman have opposing opinions on ice cream principles, both stand-up comedians believe in the importance of reaching people through the power of making them laugh.
Robinson, who is also an author, podcast host and was the co-star of HBO’s “2 Dope Queens” joined Edelman, whose most recent Broadway show Just for Us recently premiered on HBO, at the TIME100 Summit on Wednesday in a conversation moderated by TIME Editor in Chief Sam Jacobs.
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“If you’re making people laugh, they’re listening, and they’re receiving.
(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Arizona doctors could give their patients abortions in California under a proposal announced Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom to circumvent a ban on nearly all abortions in that state.
It would apply only to doctors licensed in good standing in Arizona and their patients, and last only through the end of November.
U. S. health and agriculture officials are ramping up testing and tracking of bird flu in dairy cows in an urgent effort to understand — and stop — the growing outbreak.
So far, the risk to humans remains low, officials said, but scientists are wary that the virus could change to spread more easily among people.
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The virus, known as Type A H5N1, has been detected in nearly three dozen dairy herds in eight states.
Actor and climate activist Jane Fonda called for Americans to vote for “climate champions” up-and-down the ballot on Wednesday at the TIME100 Summit.
“Joe Biden provides us a context in which we can fight and he can be pressured,” Fonda said. “The orange guy, forget it. There’s no space to fight or disagree.”
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While Fonda did not explicitly touch on Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, her comments seemed to be targeted in part to those on the left frustrated with the Biden Administration’s reluctance to call for a permanent ceasefire and its continued military aid to Israel as it carries out what critics see as a genocide.
Former Secretary of State John Kerry said at the TIME100 Summit Wednesday that the effort to ween the world off fossil fuels is in a “profoundly” better place now than it was three years ago under Donald Trump.
President Biden’s predecessor put the climate agenda on a “bleak pathway,” says Kerry, who was named the first Presidential climate envoy by Biden in 2021, and spoke onstage with TIME senior correspondent Justin Worland.