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☆ Opinion | Taylor Swift and the Profound Weirdness of MAGA
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( David French | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

That’s a key lesson of the MAGA right’s deeply strange turn against Taylor Swift and her boyfriend, the Kansas City Chiefs’ star tight end Travis Kelce. In fact, that’s a key lesson from this entire sorry era in American political and cultural life. Even as he condemned Swift, one prominent MAGA figure recently boasted that his “side” still had Kid Rock, Ted Nugent and Jon Voight. According to them, Taylor Swift’s extraordinary popularity isn’t the organic outcome of a talented and appealing superstar’s bond with her fans. No, according to them, Swift’s rise is an “op” or a “psyop” engineered by the deep state in order to benefit Joe Biden.

Persons: Hatred, MAGA, Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, Swift, Phil Bredesen, Republican Marsha Blackburn, Joe Biden, Kelce, “, Laura Ingraham’s, Rock, Ted Nugent, Jon Voight, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, can’t, Taylor Organizations: Kansas City Chiefs, Democratic, Senate, Republican, Pfizer, —, Fox News, Dixie Locations: Tennessee, MAGA America

☆ Taylor Swift campaigning for Joe Biden? Younger campaign aides are reportedly hoping to make it happen
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewAs President Joe Biden looks ahead to an all-but-certain rematch against Donald Trump, there's one possible endorsement that reportedly has younger staffers buzzing: Taylor Swift. And I also have custom cookies 🍪💪😘📷 @inezandvinoodh pic.twitter.com/DByvIgKocr — Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) October 7, 2020But this time, Biden campaign staffers are hoping to leverage Swift's star power in an even bigger way, according to The New York Times. AdvertisementAccording to The Times, the Biden campaign recently urged applicants to a social media position not to describe how they would use Taylor Swift — because too many people had already done the same. More than 35,000 people registered to vote after Swift urged her Instagram followers to do so in September.

Persons: —, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Taylor Swift, Biden, I’ll, e, Tim, flo, Tim e, Tay, Sen Organizations: Service, Business, NFL Locations: America

☆ US senators demand documents from Meta over its handling of teen mental health
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Washington CNN —A group of US senators is demanding that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg hand over troves of emails and documents that could show how the company handled the knowledge that its platforms could harm the mental health of teens. The company didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the letter. Meta spokesman Andy Stone said that the company is in touch with the members who signed the letter. The letter further accuses Meta of showing an “apparent willful disregard” for young people’s well-being, of “misrepresentations to Congress” and of “profiting from threats” to user safety. The letter requests a response by Nov. 30 and calls for Meta to provide its correspondence related to Bejar’s warnings to executives, as well as senior leaders’ own correspondence with Zuckerberg about proposed investments in user well-being.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, ”, Connecticut Democrat Richard Blumenthal, Tennessee Republican Marsha Blackburn, Dick Durbin, South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham ; Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren, Missouri Republican Josh Hawley, Meta, Arturo Bejar, Andrea Joy Campbell, didn’t, Andy Stone, people’s, ’ Organizations: Washington CNN, Facebook, Connecticut Democrat, Tennessee Republican, South Carolina Republican, South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham ; Massachusetts Democrat, Missouri Republican, Meta Locations: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Tennessee, Illinois, South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham ; Massachusetts, Missouri

☆ US senators examine TikTok hiring of ByteDance executives
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Two U.S. senators said they were investigating short video sharing app TikTok's reported decision recently to hire several high-level executives from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. Republican Senator Josh Hawley, who sought unanimously consent to win approval for legislation to ban TikTok in May, plans to force a vote on the issue later this year. "We need to come back to it and we need to ban it," he told Reuters last month. "(TikTok) has hired lobbyists by the bazillion, they are in the halls constantly and they have been able to stop progress." TikTok is fighting a ban by the state of Montana set to take effect on Jan. 1.

Persons: Richard Blumenthal, Republican Marsha Blackburn, Shou Zi Chew, TikTok, Maria Cantwell, Josh Hawley, Donald Trump, David Shepardson, Jonathan Oatis, Mark Porter, Alexandra Hudson Organizations: ByteDance, Democrat, Republican, U.S, Biden, White, TikTok, Reuters, HK, Alexandra Hudson Our, Thomson Locations: China, Montana

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