Sean is a business reporter who covers tech and media for TheWrap based in New York City. His beat includes companies like Meta and TikTok, as well as notable industry figures like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Sean covers the news landscape and closely watches digital media.
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Twitter Users Mock New ‘Fleets’ Function: ‘I Just Think of Enemas’
“I work in the pharmacy and when [Fleets] was trending I was like ‘oh was there a recall or something?” another user joked
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Twitter Added 300,000 Warning Labels to Election Tweets, Jack Dorsey Says
Platform wanted to add “broader context” to election-related posts, Dorsey said
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Obama Suggests Facebook and Twitter May Need Government Regulation to Combat Misinformation and Lies
“The First Amendment doesn’t require private companies to provide a platform for any view that is out there,” former president says
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TikTok Gets 15-Day Extension on Divestment Plan, Treasury Says
A deadline had initially been set for Thursday for Bytedance, TikTok’s parent company, to offload its American assets
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TikTok Avoids Shutdown, Commerce Department Won’t Enforce Deadline
The popular video app was facing a Thursday deadline
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Facebook Extends Suspension on US Political Ads for ‘Another Month’
Social network initially blocked political ads from running for a week after Election Day, aiming to block “premature victory” claims
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TikTok Seeks Extension on Divestment Deadline, Says It Hasn’t Heard From US Regulators in Weeks
The Nov. 12 deadline is fast approaching
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New York Times Reporter Incorrectly Rips Accurate Facebook Headlines as ‘Right-Wing Misinformation’
“Most of these stories aren’t ‘false,’ per se,” reporter Kevin Roose later said, after Twitter users blasted him for his framing of popular Facebook stories
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Stephen Curry’s Unanimous Media Scores Podcast Deal With Audible
Curry already has two shows lined up, including one based on his popular “Five Minutes From Home” series on YouTube
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How Big Tech ‘Dodged a Bullet’ With a Biden Victory
“I can’t imagine a world in which Joe Biden is going to really attack [social platforms] and vilify them,” one analyst says
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Parler, a Twitter Alternative for Conservatives, Shatters Download Record Post-Election
The free-speech focused app shot to the top of Apple and Google’s app stores on Monday. Here’s why.
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AMC, Disney Shares Surge on Promising COVID-19 Vaccine News
“Stay-at-home” stocks like Netflix, Roku and Zoom went in the opposite direction
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Biden Defeats Trump – in New Twitter Followers Since Election Day
More than 2 million people have followed Biden since Election Day, or about twice as many as have followed the president during that same time
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Roku’s Stock Races to All-Time High After Surprise Q3 Profit
Streaming device maker’s stock price increases 11% to $250 per share during early trading on Friday
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Roku Trounces Wall Street’s Revenue Estimates With Unexpected Q3 Profit
Streaming device company added nearly 3 million new accounts, bringing Roku to 46 million overall