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Web Power: Time’s List of the Internet’s Most Influential People

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Time Magazine has published its annual list of people who have had the greatest impact on social media and the news, with celebrities, popular bloggers and singers among them. Every one of them has millions of followers across English-language social media platforms, such as YouTube, Instagram and Facebook.

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BTS performs "Fake Love" at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday, May 20, 2018, in Las Vegas.
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Barbadian singer and actress Rihanna poses on the carpet upon arrival to attend the European premiere of the film "Ocean's 8" in London on June 13, 2018.
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US President Donald Trump speaks to the press onboard Air Force One en route to Bedminster, New Jersey, from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., June 29, 2018.
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American singer Kanye West performs on the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival of Music and Performing Arts on Worthy Farm near the village of Pilton in Somerset, South West England, on June 27, 2015.
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New York Daily News Senior Justice Writer Shaun King speaks during an International Women's Day rally in Seattle, Washington on March 8, 2017.
Throngs of demonstrators, mostly women and many wearing pink, rallied in New York and Washington to protest against President Donald Trump's policies toward women on International Women's Day.
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Scott Rogowsky attends the world premiere of "Ocean's 8" at Alice Tully Hall on Tuesday, June 5, 2018, in New York.
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Kylie Jenner arrives for the 2018 Met Gala on May 7, 2018, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The Gala raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. The Gala's 2018 theme is “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.”
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Matt Drudge carries a laptop computer as he walks up the stairs to his Hollywood-area apartment in Los Angeles on June 18, 1997. The Drudge Report, the daily barrage of breaking news, gossip and politics he e-mails to some 65,000 subscribers, is hotter than hot.
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David Hogg, left, a student activist from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School speaking to a student as they walk out of school, Friday, April 20, 2018 in Parkland, Fla. Another wave of student walkouts is expected to disrupt classes Friday at hundreds of schools across the U.S. as young activists press for tougher gun laws. The protests were chosen to line up with the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting, which left 13 people dead in Littleton, Colorado. At 10 a.m., students plan to gather for moments of silence honoring the victims at Columbine and other shootings.
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Busy Philipps attends the 4th Annual Baby2Baby Gala held at 3Labs on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015, in Culver City, Calif.
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