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• Social media conspiracies blame coronavirus on 5G internet

  Conspiracy theorists are infecting YouTube and Facebook with bogus theories that 5G mobile internet is responsible for the ...

  • Bryan Clark

• This Giphy/Jif peanut butter collab over GIF pronunciation is a no-brainer

  Giphy and Jif the peanut butter company are teaming up to settle the debate over how to pronounce "GIF" once and for all. ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Facebook uses its ad policies to block apps that compete with its dating service

  Facebook Dating was always doomed to be as dystopian and inhumane as a speech from Mark “I'm not a robot, I swear it” Zuckerberg, but who could have guessed that the company would consider cheating and hookup sites its direct competition. The creators of an app called #Open ...

  • Tristan Greene

• George Soros: Zuckerberg is on Trump's side and must be removed

  Billionaire philanthropist George Soros has called for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg to "be removed ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Facebook changes its ad rules over Bloomberg's cringey memes

  Presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg has taken to Instagram, paying content creators for memes. Facebook's figuring out ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Clearview AI's false claims of accuracy increase the dangers of its face recognition software

  Clearview AI's calamitous press campaign had another mishap yesterday when the ACLU slammed its claims of being rated "100% ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Instagram tests IGTV ads that let creators monetize their vids

  Instagram might finally let its creators make money directly from their work via ads on IGTV videos, a feature that's been ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• This Amazon parody dating site is hilarious... and also kind of creepy

  Don't worry, "Amazon Dating" is currently just a joke website. And we sincerely hope it stays that way, because the joke ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Here are 3 ways we can redesign social media to reduce 'FoMO' anxiety

  Fear of missing out, or FoMO, is commonly described as that anxious feeling you get when you think other people might be ...

  • The Conversation

• Facebook refused to remove a business Page dedicated to a woman's butthole

  Buzzfeed yesterday published an article about a woman who'd spent the past five years trying to get Facebook to take down ...

  • Tristan Greene

• We asked an actual Italian about the new ‘Italian hand’ emoji

  There's something new coming to your phone: the Italian hand (AKA pinching hand) emoji. To understand this more, we asked ...

  • Callum Booth

• Unicode Consortium finally added a transgender flag emoji and more gender-inclusive designs

  The Unicode Consortium revealed 117 new 2020 emoji designs, and among them is a transgender flag and more gender-inclusive ...

  • Cara Curtis