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 🇺🇸 With an increase in the time period between the polls closing and the declared result in the US election due to millions of postal votes needing to be counted, there’s a fear this could cause a situation where...

🎅 Too early to talk about Christmas? The latest report from Brand Watch says conversation on social media around the festive period is up 23% on last year already with many people looking forward to the holidays already. ...

📱 The Papaya young directors award looks to put promising video content creators in front of the advertising industry in Poland. One of this years finalists had a clever take on content that would inevitably be viewed on a...

⚖️ Germany were the first country in the world to introduce a law that was meant to have a significant effect on law social media. Now Turkey have followed suit with a change in law which introduces a number...

💃 Video conferences are common place in life at the moment and we’ve discussed the effects of Zoom Face, however it seems there’s also an effect on fashion with retailers over indexing in sales of clothing for the top...

🇹🇷 The saga continues… Facebook has decided to defy the new law in Turkey requiring social media companies to establish a formal presence in the country. The law requires technology companies with more than 1m daily users to store...

👀 Excessive internet use is said to be behind a rise in youngsters seeking treatment to reverse the signs of premature ageing. A “lack of sleep” and “too much screen time” is pre-disposing youngsters to developing “bigger eye...

😷  For the first time in 12 years the mask wearing emoji from Apple has been upgraded to replace the plain yellow face with sad eyes that looks sick, to what appears to be a smiley face wearing a...

📰 Various anonymous Instagram accounts dedicated to celebrity gossip, news, and rumour are increasingly becoming the go-to “credible” source on all things celeb related. In the last two decades there’s been a shift of celebrities becoming their own paparazzi, posting...

👨‍🚀  The online game “Among Us” has been trending all over social media for the last few weeks influencing content and various memes. This has now crossed over into beauty with various makeup and nail inspired concepts featuring the...

💰  With the rise of video conferencing fuelled by the pandemic Zoom now offers an integration with PayPal that allows users to charge attendees. The service is initially set to be only available in the US for now, but...

🎤 Although not technically social media, the impact of Google’s latest updates to their search functionality will have an impact across all things tech and media related. The main callouts from their Google Presents: Search On 2020 video, which...

 💉 As the world strives to find a vaccination for Covid-19 social media platforms are becoming under increasing pressure to repair the public belief in science which has been eroded by misinformation on their platforms. YouTube have stated they are...

 In the last few weeks the song Put Your Records On by Ritt Momney (not Mitt Romney…) has been attached to the TikTok challenge #10SecondVS which sees users start to create a seemingly crass makeup tutorial in the first...

🔺  There’s been controversy online with the announcement of Gal Gadot to be cast as the lead in the new Cleopatra film. Outside of the “cultural whitewashing” discussion on social media, this film has already garnered lots of media...