Category: influencer

Ban Shein, China’s Fast-Fashion Company

Commentary Shein, China’s fast-fashion company, moved its headquarters from Nanjing to Singapore last year, apparently in an attempt to globalize and escape the bad reputation of its parent country. Yet most of its business operations, including almost all its factories and warehouses, remain in China. Shein apparently tried to rehabilitate what’s left of its China…


LIVE 5:30 PM ET: TikTok Influencers Decry Proposed Ban

Some TikTok influencers hold a news conference at 5:00 p.m. ET on March 22 to denounce the efforts of the Biden administration to restrict the social media app, one day before TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies to a House committee. …


LIVE NOW: TikTok Influencers Decry Proposed Ban

Some TikTok influencers hold a news conference at 5:00 p.m. ET on March 22 to denounce the efforts of the Biden administration to restrict the social media app, one day before TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies to a House committee. …


TikTok Influencers Decry Proposed Ban

Some TikTok influencers hold a news conference at 5:00 p.m. ET on March 22 to denounce the efforts of the Biden administration to restrict the social media app, one day before TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies to a House committee. …


Chinese Regime Tightens Online Censorship, Clamps Down on Influencers

The Chinese communist regime’s Cyberspace Administration (CAC) launched a two-month “purge” on March 12 to strictly control the dissemination of information on China’s internet and to increase the censorship of online citizen journalists. The move has caused uproar online, however. A popular Chinese social media influencer also fell victim to the newly tightened censorship rules…


Influencer or Impactor?

In the digital world we live in, there has been a rise of “influencers,” who are intended to use their presence and reach. But are influencers actually impacting anyone for good? Or are they just human marketing tools in a vast sea of e-commerce and social engineering? …


Chinese Influencer Fined $16 Million for Tax Evasion, as the Regime Tightens Control of Livestreaming Industry

China fined a top social media influencer $16 million for tax evasion. It’s the regime’s latest punishment of the country’s top online personalties and part of its nationwide crackdown on the livestreaming industry. On June 16, Fuzhou Municipal Taxation Bureau of Jiangxi Province announced online that it ordered Xu Guohao to pay 108 million yuan…


UK Lawmakers Urge Government to Regulate Online Influencer Culture

Child influencers on social media platforms fell out of the protection afforded by employment laws, a select committee of British MPs said. The Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) Committee urged the government to bolster the advertising and employment laws to bring influencer culture into scope. In a report published on Monday, the DCMS committee said the…


Australian Financial Experts Welcome ASIC’s Warning to Unlicensed Financial Influencers

Financial experts have welcomed the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) warning to social media financial influencers for providing financial advice and services online without a license. ASIC stated that financial advice and services must be provided by licensees and that social media influencers, often called finfluencers, who provide financial product advice and financial services…


US Skateboarder, Belgian Influencer Killed in Iceland Crash

AKUREYRI, Iceland—American skateboarder and social media influencer Josh Neuman was one of four men killed when a sightseeing plane crashed into a lake in Iceland, authorities in the North Atlantic island nation said Monday. Neuman, 22, was on the flight to create commercial content for the Belgian fashion brand Suspicious Antwerp along with Tim Alings,…