Tag: Influencers
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Hurricane Milton influencers brought in millions of views and a horde of new followers
As winds whipped through Florida and Hurricane Milton’s storm surge flooded parts of Tampa, online content creators posted to social media and livestreamed about their experiences to millions of people around the world. From the time Milton developed into a hurricane until the moments it made landfall, social media users in Florida uploaded content featuring…
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California enacts laws to protect child influencers’ financial security
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills to protect the earnings of child influencers and content creators into law Thursday. Newsom signed SB 764, a bill that requires content creators that feature children in at least 30% of their content to set aside a proportionate percentage of their earnings in trusts for the minors. State…
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Social media influencers go dark on TikTok after promoting futuristic Saudi megacity
The videos from Saudi Arabia’s futuristic urban development project spread quickly across the internet, and almost as quickly started to disappear. At least five influencers who had been posting videos from Neom, the multiyear project launched by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to build a high-tech megacity, have either closed their social media accounts or…
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Influencers Matt and Abby deny leaving kids alone on cruise ship while they went out to dinner
Popular content creators Matt and Abby Howard denied online speculation that they left their young children alone in a cruise ship cabin while they left for dinner. Over the weekend, the pair faced a flurry of criticism from their followers online after Abby Howard, 25, posted an Instagram story in which she shared that she…