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Truth Social’s parent company just listed five exchange-traded funds positioned around a “Made in America” thesis and screens flagged as “anti-DEI” by industry trackers. The funds hit the market today, while DJT - the platform’s publicly traded stock - traded lower on the news. The key takeaway here:

Canada said via a social media post today that it has engaged European leaders on advancing Ukraine’s security, recovery, and a negotiated settlement to the conflict. The statement reinforces ongoing diplomatic momentum around de-escalation and reconstruction, and it will shape how Ukraine-related narratives surface across feeds. Expect a pivot

MarketBeat’s latest screen flagged a curious mix of social names: Trump Media & Technology Group, JOYY, Sprout Social, and Strive (with JOYY appearing twice on the list). Beyond the ticker chatter, the signal for marketers is clear: investor attention is stretching beyond mega-cap ads businesses to two distinct camps-consumer

The CFP Cotton Bowl Classic in Dallas doubled as a live case study in real-time social. Across feeds, the content that traveled fastest followed a predictable pattern: field-level phone footage, tunnel walks, marching band hits, sideline reactions, and fan-cam eruptions stitched into tight vertical edits. Audio was the differentiator. Crowd

A handwritten “bucket list” attributed to Ye bounced across feeds this week with adventure-bait entries like skydiving, swimming with sharks, and climbing a volcano. Ye has since denied it, calling the list fake and “not my handwriting.” That’s the story: a viral artifact with celebrity sheen, followed by a

In the days between Stranger Things Season 5’s Christmas Day drop and the New Year’s Eve finale, social feeds filled with claims of missing scenes, plot holes, and an “original cut” allegedly left on the editing room floor. An unverified Google Doc listing supposed cuts spread quickly, a

American parents just put social media use and screen time near the top of their 2025 child health worries, per the latest C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital poll surveying families with kids ages 1–18. The study also probed concerns like bullying, internet safety, lack of physical activity, parental

Lightspeed Ventures partner Michael Mignano sparked debate by arguing that OpenAI’s Sora will make social media creators “far, far, far less valuable,” even predicting the “end of the creator.” The claim is provocative; the underlying shift is real. Text-to-video systems like Sora dramatically reduce production time and cost for

President Trump told reporters the U.S. has struck a dockside facility “along the shore” where boats accused of carrying drugs “load up,” framing it as an escalation from months of maritime strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. He did not specify the location, whether the military or CIA

Iran’s currency hitting a new low against the U.S. dollar has triggered a second day of demonstrations by traders and shopkeepers, with crowds gathering in Tehran’s Saadi Street and the Shush area. User-shot clips and on-the-ground posts are already rippling across social feeds, a familiar cadence for