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Donald Trump used Truth Social to urge the cancellation of broadcast licenses for media outlets he considers hostile to him and the Republican Party. The post quickly ricocheted across platforms, drawing fresh lines around press freedom and dredging up the perennial question of how social teams should show up when

The U.S. will deny visas to five European figures, including a former EU commissioner, accusing them of efforts to suppress American viewpoints on social media. The move doesn’t rewrite any platform policy, but it sharply raises the political and legal temperature around how platforms interact with foreign governments

The NBA dropped a timely data point before its Christmas Day showcase: a top-10 list of the most-viewed players across the league’s social channels this season, with Luka Dončić at No. 1 by a wide margin. The bigger picture: highlight-dense, personality-forward stars are still the most reliable currency in

Reporters surfaced what appeared to be a 2019 letter allegedly from Jeffrey Epstein to Larry Nassar - including a reference to Donald Trump - and within hours the Department of Justice said the document was almost certainly fake, citing mismatched handwriting and a postmark date after Epstein’s death. The

Sandy City Fire Department leaned into holiday culture with a playful elf-themed reminder about fire safety-an approach that turns an evergreen PSA into something timely and shareable. The key takeaway here: framing matters. Wrapping safety guidance in festive creative reduces scroll-past and increases the odds that a community actually absorbs

A straw poll reported from TPUSA’s AmericaFest suggests strong support for Israel among attendees, alongside sharply negative sentiment toward Islam. It’s a self-selected, event-based readout - informative about a specific audience, not a stand-in for the broader conservative electorate. Still, expect the results to circulate across right-leaning feeds

The Justice Department has released a large new batch of Epstein case files-tens of thousands of pages-stoking another wave of online speculation with limited new substance. Mentions of Donald Trump largely stem from media clippings and flight logs from the 1990s, which a prosecutor noted showed more trips on Epstein’

AI hasn’t invented extremism-but it has industrialized it. Generative tools make it cheaper and faster to spin up persuasive narratives, fake personas, and realistic audio or video that can evade quick glances and flood feeds. The difference now is volume and velocity: coordinated actors can run content farms, A/

MarketBeat’s screener puts a mixed bag of “social media stocks to watch” on today’s radar: Trump Media & Technology Group (Truth Social’s parent), JOYY, Weibo, Sprout Social-and a duplicate or two, which suggests the list is more a pulse check than a thesis. The signal here isn’

Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest active ranger, has died at 104, with her family and the agency sharing the news on social platforms. Soskin turned public attention into education, using her visibility to surface overlooked histories and lived experiences that rarely make front-page news. The key