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This week in social media news, Snapchat research highlights users’ excitement about returning to the movies, TikTok launches a creative hub to help guide business accounts, Twitter’s latest study reveals users’ financial optimism about the year and Facebook may soon launch campaign budget optimization across multiple platforms, not just ad sets.  Snapchatters Plan Their Return To The Movie Theaters As movie theaters start to reopen, the top activity Snapchatters are most excited about doing post-pandemic is going to the movies, shows the platform’s latest research. Another 81 percent say they’ll watch movies in theaters as much or more often than before the pandemic. Why it matters: Snapchatters are 1.7 times more likely to see a movie on premiere weekend compared to non-Snapchatters, giving studio advertisers an opportunity to boost opening box office sales by running native Snapchat ads like AR Lenses, Story Ads and Filters leading up film releases. Snapchat’s findings come as large movie chains including AMC and Regal Cinemas have reopened some of their locations nationwide in recent weeks. The details: Nearly all of Snapchatters (96 percent) say they heard about a film they watched in theaters from an ad, usually weeks before they ended up seeing it.…

21st Apr 2021 9:23 AM Premium Content Subscriber only A young Sunshine Coast DJ who performs regularly at some of the region's best-known venues has pleaded guilty to trafficking in party-drug MDMA, telling an undercover officer he was ordering one ounce "rocks" at a time to split up and sell. Sippy Downs man Louis Wade Quinn, 21, who performs under the name LOQI at venues including 1911 (upstairs at the Duporth Tavern), NightQuarter and the Helm (since closed), was sentenced in Brisbane Supreme Court on Tuesday. The court heard the drug trafficking occurred between June 6 - August 20, 2018, at various locations on the Sunshine Coast using the social media application Snapchat. On five occasions during this period, Quinn supplied a total of 65 MDMA capsules to undercover police, who paid the defendant $1050. During the transactions, Quinn "made admissions to sourcing ounces of 'rock'," Crown prosecutor Toby Corsbie told the court. BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA – NewsWire Photos – APRIL 20, 2021. Louis Quinn, a 21 year-old DJ, leaves the Supreme Court in Brisbane. He was sentenced for trafficking MDMA. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Dan Peled Analysis of the capsules supplied to the officers revealed a total of 12.57g of…

Players Can Now Bring Expressive Bitmoji Stickers to the UNO Mobile Game EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – April. 19, 2021 – Mattel163, a mobile gaming joint venture between Mattel (NASDAQ: MAT) and NetEase (NASDAQ: NTES), today launched a new update to bring Bitmoji to the UNO!™ mobile game.  In partnership with Snap, beginning today UNO! players can showcase their use their custom Bitmoji avatar in UNO! mobile games and club chat for a completely personalized UNO! experience. “We are excited to be partnering with Snapchat to integrate the ever-popular Bitmoji into the UNO! mobile game,” said Amy Huang, CEO of Mattel163. “This new feature will enable us to deliver a more unique and personalized game experience to our global players to further enhance the gameplay.” “Bitmoji are all about expression and having fun, and we’re thrilled to partner with Mattel163 to integrate them into a beloved game like UNO! that was created around those principals,” said John Imah, Head of Games and Brands Partnerships at Snapchat. “When we launched Bitmoji for Games last year, we envisioned working with innovative partners like Mattel163 to personalize the player experience, and we can’t wait to see how players will create new shareable moments in…

A 30-year-old Stroud man cried as he was sentenced to 22 months in jail for posting naked photographs of two women on social media. Jake Ede of Bath Road, Rodborough, got hold of risque and explicit photos that the women had intended only their partners to see and put them on Snapchat and Instagram, Gloucester Crown Court was told on Friday (April 16). Ede began sobbing loudly in the dock when the judge told him he would have to go straight to jail. The judge, Recorder Kate Brunner QC, told Ede: “What you did repeatedly was the worst possible use of social media. You hid behind anonymity to torment people who had trusted you. “You used social media to get into the women’s lives in a way which was terrifying for them. “They were terrified by not knowing who was trying to get at them. They felt degraded because of the sexual images that were shared on the internet. They felt threatened by your actions, which had an ongoing effect on their personal relationships.” The court was told that the first victim met Ede ten years ago and they had a brief relationship. Jake Ede In 2016, the woman began…

LAKEWOOD, Ohio — A Lakewood man who posed as a 15-year-old girl on social media and received explicit photos of a minor before posting them to TikTok, pleaded guilty Monday to the distribution of child pornography, according to a news release from Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut.Brian Grinnell, 36 of Lakewood, posed as a 15-year-old girl and met a girl who was under 12 years old on Omegle, an online website and mobile application that allows users to interact with strangers, according to the news release.During their communication on the app, Grinnell and the minor started communicating on Snapchat where he told the minor victim to take sexually explicit photos and videos of herself and send them to him over Snapchat.After she felt threatened by Grinnell, the girl unfriended and blocked him on Snapchat.According to the news release, Grinnell found the minor’s friend on TikTok and stated that unless the girl contacted him, he would post a video of her naked on TikTok.Grinnell then posted sexually explicit videos of the minor on TikTok. When a friend of the victim, who is also a minor, begged Grinnell not to post any additional videos, he…

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A case to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court next week presents one of those rare instances in which different LGBTQ groups are on opposite sides. The case is Mahanoy v. BL, an appeal which asks the Supreme Court to take a new look at a long-standing First Amendment decision from 1969 and say whether it needs to be re-thought, given today’s new social media and cyber-bullying realities. In friend-of-the-court briefs submitted in the case, different LGBTQ groups and leaders are taking different sides. Some argue that schools need the authority to discipline students for inappropriate messages even when those messages are delivered off-campus and after-school. Others say students need protection from school authorities over-reaching into the personal views and expressions of students. Both sides say the case, which has no LGBT-specific elements, could have important implications for LGBTQ students. The case before the court started in 2017, when a student at a small public high school in central Pennsylvania posted an angry message on Snapchat, expressing her anguish at having been rejected for the varsity cheerleading squad. The student, identified in numerous news reports as Brandi Levy, is identified in court documents as B.L., and she attended Mahanoy…

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Swae Lee’s new Snapchat show “Swae Meets World” debuts today Saturday (April 17). The reality docuseries is part of Snapchat Originals, which is the social media platform’s new original programming initiative. “Swae Meets World” will give fans who subscribe a behind-the-scenes look at Khalif “Swae Lee” Brown’s exciting rockstar lifestyle. The five-time Grammy nominee is still very much a part of Rae Sremmurd. And while his brother Slim Jxmmi makes an appearance in the first episode, this show is strictly about Swae. In the first episode, titled “Swae Lee’s having the wildest year of his life, no cap,” Swae is conflicted. He has to focus on his first solo album, while grieving the death of his father. The 27-year-old Tupelo, Mississippi native experienced a serious tragedy when Michael Sullivan, Swae and Jxmmi’s half-brother, was charged with felony first-degree murder of his own father. “Allegedly the police say my brother shot my dad,” Swae says during the episode. “It’s unbelievable. You can’t even imagine. It’s like something out of a movie. I’m still dealing with it. I don’t even know how to deal with it all the way completely. It’s traumatic but it like puts fury inside of you. It puts…

Investigators say they found no evidence to establish the “just cause” necessary to justify Hunt's termination or to invoke any other discipline.