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1) Lad Bible apologises after threatening to sue blogger

 - The Lad Bible is a social media community page which attracts young aged males as a target audience.
- The Lad Bible have apologised to sue blogger after the blogger insulting the social media page.
- The Lad Bible has become a social media phenomenon as it gathers news from online and presents in to the millions of followers.
- A person named Gareth Arnoult has claimed that The Lad Bible are to be criticised for not crediting the original owners of photos and videos.
- The Lad Bible did not see the funny side to this blog and threatened to sue the blogger.
- The blogger Gareth Arnoult published the threat in which The Lad Bible stopped their plan to sue.
- The Lad Bible also apologised to the blogger.

I think that the blogger should be allowed to voice his opinion and not get any court cases against him . This also reinforces the fact that any ordinary person can make blogs and can directly affect big companies like The Lad Bible.

2) Social Media star deletes Instagram account

- Teenager who quit platform after realising how much she was getting paid to promote products has created her own website
- Essena O'Neil who is 18 years old who had 612,00 followers on Instagram
- she write captions under the Instagram posts telling followers when she was getting paid to promote clothes and food
- She know has her own website to promote veganism, plant base nutrition, environmental awareness etc.
- The website features a button where viewers can donate money to Essena.

I think that making an own platform may be tricker to get traffic from her social media fan following to her website. Also operating on social media websites such as Instagram help people to discover famous Instagram accounts through the discover section. This means that Essena would have grown more on the social media website. I don't understand why Essena deleted her Instagram profile and not had an Instagram profile and a website as the Instagram account could be a platform to promote the website before deciding to close the social media account.