A week after Ye, more commonly known as the former Kanye West, was kicked off of Twitter and Instagram for antisemitic posts, the rapper is offering to buy conservative social media network Parler. The network tweeted the news Monday morning, saying the deal “ensures Parler a future role in creating an uncancelable ecosystem where all…

Kanye West’s Twitter and Instagram accounts were restricted after the music superstar unleashed a series of antisemitic posts. That controversy came on the heels of West’s appearance at Paris Fashion Week, where he wore a “White Lives Matter” t-shirt. As some in conservative media jumped to the hip-hop mogul’s defense, others wondered what sparked the…

College athletes are now able to cash in on their name, image and likeness (NIL) after the NCAA drafted new rules last year in response to a Supreme Court decision. National, regional and local brands are all paying big money for collegiate sports stars to promote their wares. Just this week, Nike signed its first…

Social media giant TikTok is heating up competition in the U.S. A new report indicates the Chinese-owned platform is setting up its own product fulfillment centers in America to expand into the e-commerce space. The company posted several job openings on LinkedIn, seeking out industry veterans in Seattle and Los Angeles to support the new warehouses.…

According to reports from Russian news agencies, Russia’s financial monitoring agency added Meta to its list of “terrorists and extremists.” The company owns the social media and messaging apps Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Meta was found guilty of “extremist activity” in Russia back in March. Russia blamed Meta for allegedly censoring out Russian news outlets…

The Kardashian-Jenner family is the biggest influencer collective in the world. Kris, Kim, Kylie, Kourtney, Khloe and Kendall have more than 1.2 billion followers combined. A profile that large allows the clan to make highly lucrative deals to promote pretty much anything, and we have the promos that landed them in legal hot water in this…

Major advertisers are pulling their business from Twitter after advertisements for their companies appeared alongside tweets soliciting child pornography. Dyson, Mazda, Forbes, PBS Kids and Direct TV have all removed their ads from the social media site. Those companies as well as Disney, NBC Universal, and Coca-Cola were among 30 advertisers that appeared on the…

Two Facebook users are suing parent-company Meta, claiming the company is tracking and collecting their data across the web without consent. The proposed class-action lawsuit says the social media company is evading Apple’s 2021 privacy policy and violating state and federal laws. Apple first introduced App Tracking Transparency (ATT) in 2021 with a pop-up that…

Warner Bros. just killed its “Batgirl” movie, which was in its final stages, after spending tens of millions of dollars on the project. Sources told the New York Post the movie was “irredeemable.” The superhero movie, which had been set to debut on HBO Max later this year, had a $70 million budget and was…

The economy has technically been shrinking all year, but what about Wall Street? After the busiest business week of the summer, now more than half of the country’s largest companies have reported second quarter earnings. Here’s what we have learned from them so far. #1: Big Oil strikes gold The two largest U.S. oil companies,…