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Living
TikTok Bumps Its Creator Fund From $200 Million To $1 Billion
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Jul 31, 2020
TikTok
Biden Campaign Bans TikTok From Staff’s Personal & Work Phones
Michelle Santiago...
Jul 28, 2020
Living
TikTok Is Latest Social Media Platform To Crack Down On QAnon Content
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Jul 24, 2020
Tech
Twitter Cracks Down On QAnon, Banning Thousands Of Accounts
Twitter is banning thousands of accounts linked to QAnon content for violating the platform’s terms and conditions, specifically its rules against ta
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Travel
Disney Bans Eating & Drinking While Walking To Ensure People Wear...
After a much-criticized reopening in mid-July that was followed by a record spike in COVID-19 cases, Orlando, Florida’s Disney World remains open. Th
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Michelle Santiago...
College
A Few Colleges Have Announced Tuition Discounts For Virtual Classes
As July nears its close, the question of college tuition becomes increasingly urgent. Most campuses will offer virtual classes, if not in addition to socia
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Food & Drinks
Trader Joe’s Announces Changes Following Petition Against R...
High school senior Briones Bedell’s Change.org petition to remove racist packaging from Trader Joe’s products reached a high point over the wee
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Michelle Santiago...
TikTok
What Is Shadow Banning & Why Are TikTokers Complaining About It?
If you spend enough time on any of TikTok’s subkingdoms (except for Straight TikTok) you’ll likely come across a user’s desperate plea to have a post
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Michelle Santiago...
Best of Instagram
Instagram’s TikTok Competitor, Reels, Is Coming This August
Through all the mayhem surrounding TikTok these days, it’s worth remembering that TikTok is not the first nor last social media platform of its kind. Tik
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Michelle Santiago...
TikTok
White House Says Decision On TikTok Ban Will Come In A Matter Of ...
Update: This story was originally published on July 16 at 3:46 p.m. ET. It has since been published with statements from TikTok. It would be unwise to take
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Michelle Santiago...
Best of Instagram
Gen Z Is Revitalizing Instagram With “What __ R U” Na...
This story was originally published on July 14, 2020. It’s been a while since an Instagram trend really took off. But recently, a series of posts followi
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Michelle Santiago...
Living
Snapchat Is Testing A Feature That Will Make It More Like TikTok
When news hit that the Trump administration was contemplating a TikTok ban, all kinds of alternative apps saw an opportunity. After TikTok was banned in In
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Michelle Santiago...
Living
People On Social Media Are Not Exactly Thrilled About Disney Worl...
On July 7, the Washington Post reported that, at the time, one in every 100 Floridians was infected by COVID-19, no doubt due to the state’s liberal reop
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Michelle Santiago...
iPhone
Why So Many Apps Are Crashing On iPhones Today
On Friday morning, thousands of iPhone users woke up to find that a lot of their go-to apps were crashing. The affected apps so far include Spotify, Pinter
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Michelle Santiago...
Entertainment
You’ll Be Mad You’re Not Competing In This Sims Reali...
March’s sweeping shelter-in-place order triggered a spike in video game downloads and purchases. From Animal Crossing to Fortnite, we gave ourselves
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Michelle Santiago...
Food & Drinks
Uber Is Launching A Grocery Delivery Service
Grocery delivery services are as old as grocery stores themselves. But our months-long stint of shelter-in-place order compliance changed how most of us pr
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Michelle Santiago...
Dating Advice
Tinder Is Testing Video Chatting For Virtual Dates
Maybe you can hold off on dating for a month, or two or three to focus on building yourself up from the inside. But we’re about five months into a qu
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Michelle Santiago...
Living
Delta Will Resume Alcohol Service For Select Passengers
While the country re-opens, and re-closes, and re-opens in a confused effort to “go back to normal,” airlines continue to rethink how we fly. J
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Michelle Santiago...
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Food & Drinks
What It Means When Brands Boycott Social Media Ads
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Color of Change, the Anti-Defamation League, and a group of other organizations hav
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Michelle Santiago...
Coronavirus
Coronavirus Contact Tracing Won’t Work If You Don’t P...
While we’re not using our phones for navigating, ride-sharing, or event-planning as much, the pandemic lockdown has made the war on screen time a thi
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Michelle Santiago...
Food & Drinks
Eskimo Pies Are Over As The Company Discontinues Racist Branding
It’s an unfortunate but urgent realization: you look at your pantry or scan the grocery store aisles and see a sea of Black faces, smiling even, on A
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Michelle Santiago...
Food News
How To Get Free Panera Coffee Through Labor Day
Any old-school financial advisor will blame the state of your personal finances on your coffee intake before realizing that the economy might be past the p
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Michelle Santiago...
Juneteeth
Virtual Events To Help You Take Part In Juneteenth Festivities
Today is Juneteenth, a holiday long-celebrated among Black Americans that commemorates the liberation of the last enslaved Black people of the South. In ou
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Michelle Santiago...
Food & Drinks
Taco Bell Manager Fired After Wearing Black Lives Matter Mask
The “It’s a free country,” retort loses its appeal when the clauses and exceptions that condition the “free” are glaringly ob
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Michelle Santiago...
Food & Drinks
Aunt Jemima Is Finally Giving Its Racist Branding An Overhaul
Up until today, Aunt Jemima touted its history with pride. On the brand’s website, the “Our History” tab is proudly displayed, in it, a m
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Michelle Santiago...
TikTok
Black Creators React To TikTok’s Apology & Share Experience...
#BlackLivesMatter has over 4.6 billion posts on TikTok. While TikTok is a Chinese import, today’s users, as well as the platform, are entirely indebt
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Michelle Santiago...
TikTok
Why So Many TikTok Creators Changed Their Profile Pictures
Across the country, people are organizing, donating, and protesting police brutality and institutional racism. The #BlackLivesMatter hashtag has become a p
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Michelle Santiago...
TikTok
TikTok’s #BlackLivesMatter & #GeorgeFloyd Issues, Explained
A viral tweet from last night claimed TikTok had, “blocked the #BlackLivesMatter tag and every single tag related to George Floyd,” the 46-year
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Michelle Santiago...
Guide To Wine
Newly Approved Rosé Prosecco Is Going To Be The Summer Drink Of 2021
It’s not that we’ve given up all hope. Moreso, we want to keep a level head of what to expect of this summer. This will not be a summer of 12-h
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Michelle Santiago...
Food & Drinks
Starbucks Color-Changing Tumblers Are Back In New Seasonal Shades
First, we’re going to need everyone to take a deep breath and steady themselves. When we shared the news last year that Starbucks had dropped color-c
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Michelle Santiago...
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