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Surveys: Half of U.S. adults under 50 get health information from influencers or podcasts; 86% of health influencers are on Instagram, 62% on TikTok, 45% on YouTube (Pew Research Center)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 8, 2026

Pew Research Center: Surveys: Half of U.S. adults under 50 get health information from influencers or podcasts; 86% of health…

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Q&A with New York Times reporter Tiffany Hsu on AI-generated online influencers, how the volume of synthetic content produces user burnout, and more (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 11, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: The dilemma of the Anthropic myth, violence against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta The Big Technology…

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Kalshi is attempting to expand its user base through targeted marketing, recruiting female influencers, and more; 26% of users are now women, up from 13% in May 2025 (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 9, 2026

The Wall Street Journal: Kalshi is attempting to expand its user base through targeted marketing, recruiting female influencers, and more;…

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Inside the world’s largest crypto casino stake, which claims about 4% of all BTC transactions, with popularity boosted by celebrities like Drake and influencers on Kick (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 1, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “Bad Date”, with Jason Snell The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball.…

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David Sacks and top MAGA influencers publicly oppose House Speaker Brian Mast’s AI OVERWATCH bill to regulate AI chip sales to China (Axios)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 18, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Are Google’s Geminis winning?, Drama of thinking machines, The potential of Claude Cowork The Big…

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Five FaZe Clan influencers step down after contract negotiations with new management fail; Matt Kalish, who invested $10 million, calls FaZe’s current structure ‘unsustainable’ (Cecilia D’Anastasio/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 26, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Alex and Ranjan’s Outlook for 2026: ChatGPT 1 Billion, AI Shopping, Apple’s Big Year, AI…

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Crypto casinos have become online gambling havens for teenagers and problem gamblers, backed by operators who turn social media influencers into recruiters (New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 14, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI Priority 2026, Disney’s AI Play, Data Center Construction Issues The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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In a lawsuit, US company TP-Link claims Netgear orchestrated a smear campaign by spreading false statements to journalists and influencers about TP-Link’s ties to China (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 19, 2025

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “Knee-Jerk Contrarian,” with Dan Frommer The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball.…

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The share of information on influencers on Bluesky doubled after the American elections from 2024 to 43%, but X remains popular, 82% of news influencers who maintain an account (Pew Research Center)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 31, 2025

Featured podcasts Techmeme comes home: Big Meta / Andundil Deal is a big problem The news of the day, every…

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How the neonazi influencers on Telegram formed the Terrorgram collective and a network of cats and channels, targeted a teenager in Slovakia and prepared him to kill (Propublica)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 10, 2025

Propuplica:: How neonazi influencers on Telegram formed the Terrorgram collective and a network of cats and channels, targeted a teenager…

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Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to fall below $67,000 on Tuesday for the first time since April, following Strategy’s first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9% (Bloomberg)

a CoreWeave-linked data center raised $900 million via five-year junk bonds, priced at par for a 7.5% yield, as the industry increasingly shifts to high-yield bonds (Gowri Gurumurthy/Bloomberg)

Microsoft launches MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning model, trained “from scratch on clean data, without distillation of third-party models” (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Internal position: Guy Rosen, Meta’s chief information security officer who previously oversaw Meta’s election integrity work, will leave in the coming months (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Meta Expands Teen Account Safety Features to Limit Harmful Content on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger, including Nutrition, Weightlifting and Anxiety (Eli Tan/New York Times)

Browsing: influencers

Surveys: Half of U.S. adults under 50 get health information from influencers or podcasts; 86% of health influencers are on Instagram, 62% on TikTok, 45% on YouTube (Pew Research Center)

Q&A with New York Times reporter Tiffany Hsu on AI-generated online influencers, how the volume of synthetic content produces user burnout, and more (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)

Kalshi is attempting to expand its user base through targeted marketing, recruiting female influencers, and more; 26% of users are now women, up from 13% in May 2025 (Wall Street Journal)

Inside the world’s largest crypto casino stake, which claims about 4% of all BTC transactions, with popularity boosted by celebrities like Drake and influencers on Kick (Bloomberg)

David Sacks and top MAGA influencers publicly oppose House Speaker Brian Mast’s AI OVERWATCH bill to regulate AI chip sales to China (Axios)

Five FaZe Clan influencers step down after contract negotiations with new management fail; Matt Kalish, who invested $10 million, calls FaZe’s current structure ‘unsustainable’ (Cecilia D’Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Crypto casinos have become online gambling havens for teenagers and problem gamblers, backed by operators who turn social media influencers into recruiters (New York Times)

In a lawsuit, US company TP-Link claims Netgear orchestrated a smear campaign by spreading false statements to journalists and influencers about TP-Link’s ties to China (Bloomberg)

The share of information on influencers on Bluesky doubled after the American elections from 2024 to 43%, but X remains popular, 82% of news influencers who maintain an account (Pew Research Center)

How the neonazi influencers on Telegram formed the Terrorgram collective and a network of cats and channels, targeted a teenager in Slovakia and prepared him to kill (Propublica)