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More than half of Americans get their news regularly from Tiktok. And this has more than doubled in 5 years. Tiktok has become a key gateway to news and politics.

This makes ownership of and content on the platform even more important.

Source: @pewresearch.org

What an eloquent, concise, and firm summary of Trump's perpetual corruption.

Target could have doubled down on its DEI efforts and easily won more business and increased customer loyalty. Instead, they cowered to the Trump Administration and its racist, homophobic, sexist policies.

My family was once regular Target shoppers but we haven't given them a dime since Jan. 24.

Just take a multivitamin. 🙄

I barely passed the required basic statistics course in grad school. Maybe if Stats, STAT! had been available, I might've done better!

Chinese Officials Consider Elon Musk Takeover of TikTok US Reports suggests that Chinese officials are considering an Elon Musk takeover of the app.

Nobody wants this. Nobody.

Here's an online quiz all should take. It's a simple test: read a bunch of headlines and choose whether you believe each is real or fake.

Test your misinformation susceptibility here: yourmist.streamlit.app

#misinformation #fakenews

Gatefold album cover of "Bitches Brew" by Miles Davis.

Here's what I listened to during my treadmill run this morning. Wayne Shorter hits some wild notes. Definitely not a Christmas album!

You know the #MedSky community has hit a critical mass when all the major medical journals have set up camp here.

Thank you to @sarasyrah.bsky.social for helping set up the @nejm.org handle and to @chrisiacono.bsky.social who will be doing the heavy lifting in managing the great content to come.

Only if you promise to follow and tell your friends. 😀

Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid It’s not just a phase.

Social media has dissolved the mortar of our society and made America stupid, Jonathan Haidt argued in 2022. It’s not just a phase. theatln.tc/XH7Zf8OQ

Respectfully, I found this post misleading, so I unfollowed you.

Majority of social media influencers don’t verify information before sharing it, study finds | CNN Business A majority of social media influencers don’t verify information before sharing it with their audiences, a study published Tuesday by the UN’s scientific and cultural arm found, underscoring concerns t...

Shocker

Physicians Flock to Bluesky, Hoping to Leave X Behind Many compare it to the early days of Twitter

It seems Bluesky is the place to be for physicians and researchers.

www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

America in a nutshell.

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GIFs are here!

Thought you were announcing a YouTube Shorts knockoff for a second there.

Threads users: will you or have you opted in to seeing political content in your feed?

Should Bluesky similarly steer away from politics?

www.socialmediatoday.com/news/metas-d...

Bluesky NEEDS animated GIFs

Also, no animated GIFs on Bluesky??

Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are all down. Social media managers hopping on to Bluesky, LinkedIn, and anything other than X: