Pinterest’s Kristie Painting on social media positivity


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It isn’t a good time to be at the helm of one of the world’s biggest social media platforms. You might be axing tens of thousands of jobs (Facebook), subjecting your newly bought platform to death by a thousand cuts (Twitter), or facing scrutiny for your ties to China (TikTok). Unless you’re Pinterest — a social media platform beloved by gardeners, fashionistas and foodies that has seemingly avoided much of social media’s recent spat of bad press. From a business perspective, Pinterest is doing rather well. Its fourth-quarter financials last year showed a climbing monthly user base of 450 million,...