What’s Trending Today: Tucker Carlson Returns to Twitter, Powell Gets Pranked, Knicks Advance

Welcome to Social Buzz, a daily column looking at what’s trending on social media platforms. I’m Caitlin Fichtel, an editor on Bloomberg’s Breaking News team, which monitors everything from company statements to tweets from some of the most prominent people in the financial world. Here’s your daily look at what the internet is talking about.

Fired Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson emerged on Twitter Wednesday for the first time since he was ousted from Rupert Murdoch’s empire, with a two-minute broadside against US media and politics. Alluding to his sudden termination at Fox News as taking “a little time off,” the former presenter castigated American media for not discussing important issues, saying one thing he had noticed in recent days was “how unbelievably stupid most of the debates you see on television are. They are completely irrelevant. They mean nothing.”