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The Tribune reported last year that a company called Influenceable LLC was paid to recruit influencers to defend Attorney General Ken Paxton over his impeachment.
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Oklahoma has filed a lawsuit against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram.
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There are new efforts by some members of Congress to completely ban the app in the United States because of national security concerns and other issues.
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Traffickers are peddling the opioid and recruiting smugglers through platforms like WhatsApp, TikTok and Instagram.
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Tesla has ramped up hiring in Central Texas and the Boring Company, Neuralink and SpaceX also have facilities in the Austin area.
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The directive from Gov. Greg Abbott comes the same day the state of Indiana filed a lawsuit against the app.
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The community of bookworms on the social app TikTok, known collectively as BookTok, has become a powerful force in the publishing industry.
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On TikTok 25-year-old Teal Lehto goes by “WesternWaterGirl,” and her clips regularly garner hundreds of thousands of views. Since joining the app in April, she’s amassed nearly 48,000 followers who tune in for her fast-paced, snarky and often profanity-laced takes on the West’s water crisis.
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The 2021 law sought to prohibit social media companies from banning users based on their viewpoints.
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House Bill 20’s primary Senate sponsor argued that social media platforms are the modern equivalent of “common carriers” and should be treated as such in terms of protecting freedom of speech.