WASHINGTON — Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., on Tuesday announced a challenge to Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., for the top Republican leadership job in the Senate. “The status quo is broken and big change is needed,” Scott said in a tweet. “It’s time for new leadership in the Senate that unites Republicans to advance a bold …
SAN FRANCISCO — On Wednesday, Facebook parent company Meta laid off 11,000 people. It didn’t take long for many of them to discuss the cuts and their plans going forward on social media. NBC News reviewed 28 posts about the layoffs that appeared to be from former employees of Meta. Some said they were immediately …
During the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, Kodye Elyse started posting what she described as “normal mom quarantine content” on TikTok. Kodye Elyse, a cosmetic tattoo artist, said she “really wasn’t on social media” before then, so she barely had any followers. Because her videos weren’t getting many views, she felt it “wasn’t a …
Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, said late Sunday that he was suspended from Instagram for 30 days. Ye posted a screenshot of an Instagram notification about the suspension on Parler, the conservative “free speech” social media platform, which recently announced Ye would acquire it. A Meta spokesperson confirmed that the company deleted …
Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk said he was not involved in the social media giant lifting a restriction on Ye’s account, telling a user that it was done before he completed his $44 billion acquisition of the company. On Friday, Musk wrote that the platform is “forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints” …
