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Twitter: How to See the Users You’ve Blocked
Twitter allows people to block other Twitter users to prevent those users from interacting with them. People can view the list of users they’ve blocked from within Twitter’s Settings menu. On this list, they have the option to unblock users they’ve previously blocked. Our guide will show you how to see the users you’ve blocked…
MPWIS Podcast: WNBA’s Commissioner on the Rise and the Future of Women’s Basketball
On the season finale of the Most Powerful Women in Sports podcast, Adweek’s former chief content officer Lisa Granatstein sits down with Cathy Engelbert, commissioner of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). Engelbert joined the WNBA in 2019 as the league’s first commissioner, after spending much of her career at Deloitte where she was its…
Kardashian Clout: Instagram Kills Video-Pushing Feed Test
Instagram is cancelling the test a few days after Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian urged Meta to stop trying to mimic TikTok.
Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for Fri, 29 Jul 2022
Rats And Snakes Get Ferreted Out On TV Reality-Competition Shows
The rats in “Rat In the Kitchen” on TBS and the snakes in “Snake In the Grass” on USA Network are not real rodents and reptiles.
What Brands Can Learn From the Power of Latinx Superheroes
This past spring, Sony Pictures announced that Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny would soon become a superhero, dawning the mask of the relatively obscure luchador El Muerto. We also saw the fan favorite character, America Chavez, (portrayed by Xochitl Gomez) introduced within the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the latest Doctor Strange film, along with Oscar…
Drone Contraband Deliveries Are Rampant at US Prisons
Law enforcement officers face an air assault as drugs, weapons and phones are flown in to prisoners.
The Case for Making Public Transit Free Everywhere
From Spain to Germany and Luxembourg to Estonia, more and more countries are experimenting with fare-free transportation.
These Darkly Humorous Cold Brew Ads Star an Insightful (but Still Wild) Bear
Coffee culture is strong on TikTok and Instagram, making them the ideal playgrounds for advertisers hoping to connect java brands with eager fans. But when paid social platforms updated their privacy policies, making it harder for Wandering Bear to physically find its caffeine-loving audience, the cold brew brand found that leaning on the algorithm was…