Over several years, social media influencers have earned a bad rep among regulators for shilling risky and unvetted tokens to millions of investors. Pursuing the crackdown on such scenarios, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reportedly issued a subpoena to influencers who were found promoting cryptocurrencies such as HEX, PulseChain and PulseX. Swedish researcher … Read more
Nov. 4, 2022 – What good is health information on popular social media platforms like TikTok if it’s misleading? Most of the popular videos about irritable bowel syndrome using the #IBS hashtag on TikTok are posted by influencers or the public rather than by medical professionals or health establishments, according to research presented at the American College … Read more
The European Union (EU) bill aiming to regulate cryptocurrencies could result in crypto influencers being charged with market manipulation if they fail to disclose potential conflicts of interest. The Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) bill, which has been approved by the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs on Oct. 10, is expected to … Read more
Meta is expanding the rollout of NFTs across its platforms, despite a slowdown in the trading of digital assets. Creators on Instagram will be able to make and sell their own NFTs — digital assets representing art or imagery that cannot be replicated — directly to fans, both on and off the platform, Meta said … Read more
Two New Zealanders detained in Iran for the last few months have been allowed to leave the country, New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said on Wednesday. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had earlier on Tuesday said in a video broadcast live on Facebook that the New Zealand government had for the … Read more
People are often skeptical about Web3, many of them influencers and digital content creators. Notably, many of those most reluctant to embrace Web3 are very successful on Web2. Since they’ve mastered monetization on popular Web2 platforms such as TikTok, Twitch and others, why bother learning the rules of a new game? The current regulatory debate … Read more
Saturday Night Live opened with a rather creative Bowen Yang hosted game show, So You Think You Won’t Snap, as contestants were challenged to not go out of their minds in rage as they are reminded of some of the week’s most unnerving news headlines. Yang, as host Morgan Freegirl, challenged the contestants to not … Read more
Written by Leah Dolan, CNNCopenhagen, Denmark In March 2022, celebrity fashion counterculturalist Julia Fox arrived at the Vanity Fair Oscar After-Party dressed in a head-turning black leather gown with a halter-neck-turned-hand wrapped around her neck. The “grip dress” made headlines across the fashion press. Fox’s look had “won the blue carpet,” wrote Vanity Fair, while … Read more
She’s got more than 130,000 followers on Instagram, where she posts photos of her globetrotting adventures. Her makeup is always impeccable, her clothes look straight off the runway. She sings, dances and models — and none of it is real. Rozy is a South Korean “virtual influencer,” a digitally rendered human so realistic she is … Read more
Brooklyn and Bailey McKnight. Courtesy Brooklyn and Bailey McKnight Twinning! Identical twins Brooklyn and Bailey McKnight have had a large social media presence since they were 13 — and the 22-year-old influencers are only gaining in popularity. “Just twins living life,” the sisters’ Instagram bio reads — as they take their millions of followers along … Read more