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De-influencing: Is Ethical Consumption Becoming a Trend?

De-influencing: Is Ethical Consumption Becoming a Trend?

Gabby Bell, Contributor February 8, 2023

It goes without saying that TikTok has a direct influence on consumer habits. The social media platform is notorious for its quickly changing trend cycles, always offering users something new to buy. With...

The World vs. Ye

The World vs. Ye

Drew Pellin, Contributor November 2, 2022

Ye, known for his controversial personality, has faced a public reckoning all of October. At the beginning of the month, the artist unloaded a storm of controversy at his Paris Fashion Week YEEZY show....

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 5: Former Facebook employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen testifies during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing entitled 'Protecting Kids Online: Testimony from a Facebook Whistleblower' on Capitol Hill, October 05, 2021 in Washington, DC. Haugen left Facebook in May and provided internal company documents about Facebook to journalists and others, alleging that Facebook consistently chooses profit over safety. (Photo by Jabin Botsford-Pool/Getty Images)

Facebook Whistleblower Testifies to Senate

Murphy Eggers, Contributor October 13, 2021

If you attempted to check your Facebook feed early last week and got an error, you are not alone.  Early last week, Facebook had a major network outage for nearly 5 hours before the problem was resolved. ...

End SARS; the viral Twitter movement from nigeria

End SARS; the viral Twitter movement from nigeria

Jaden Welborn, Author November 20, 2020

Social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram carry the torch in advocating for social justice; attempting to bring attention to and reprimand disparate treatment and societal inequalities. Instagram...

The Social Dilemma Review

The Social Dilemma Review

Adam Erickson, Contributor October 22, 2020

For those unfamiliar, the Social Dilemma is a new Netflix documentary that investigates the dangerous repercussions of social networking and the internet as a whole. The documentary is unique in that fact...

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