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• Here's the real tea: A primer on YouTube drama channels

  YouTube channels devoted specifically to gossip about other YouTubers. Here's a quick primer on what they do and why it's ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• White House launches social media survey to collect Conservative tears

  The Trump administration on Wednesday launched a new tool where pissed off Conservatives can whine about social media bias. So long as they’re legal citizens, anyway. For Conservatives like Trump, a man who rose to prominence on the backs of the social networks he’s now convinced ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Elon says Tesla will field 1M fully autonomous robo-taxis by 2020 – AI experts call BS

  Elon Musk, the PT Barnum of tech, is currently getting a ration of ridicule from some of the world's foremost leading AI experts over his ridiculous claim that Tesla will field a million fully autonomous cars by 2020. https://twitter.com/kaifulee/status/1126238951960993792 Musk, ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Online extremism is taking a mental toll on researchers studying it

  The deluge of hate and extremist content on social platforms are taking a toll on their mental health and leaves some with ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Revenge of the nerds: Facebook is developing human-level AI to fight bullying

  Facebook might be taking its bullying problem a lot more seriously than you think. Rather than hire more humans to flag troubling content, it plans on developing AI with human level intelligence to do the job. An official company blog post today, on the subject of content moderation, ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Tumblr’s Head of Culture and Fashion shares the platform's most curious subcultures

  Valentine Uhovski started his career as an editor and journalist, and has written for the likes of The Wall Street Journal ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• Dead Facebook users could outnumber the living by 2069

  Within the next 50 years, Facebook could feel more like a place for the dead than the living, according to academics from ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Here's what Democratic presidential hopefuls say about AI on Twitter (not much)

  In the era of Trumpian politics the public forum is no longer the evening news or the morning paper: it's Twitter. We decided to see which politicians were embracing the platform to discuss what we feel will be one of the most important issues of their potential presidency: artificial ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Bumble will use AI to automatically censor unsolicited nudes

  Starting in June, users of dating apps including Bumble, Badoo, Chappy, and Lumen will have access to the AI-based tool “Private ...

  • Cara Curtis

• China’s dating apps are experimenting with livestreamed matchmaking

  China’s largest date-to-marry matchmaking apps are experimenting with leveraging live-streaming to help users find love, ...

  • Trivium UB

• Unwanted sexting linked to anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem

  A new study shows early evidence that receiving unsolicited sexual imagery through text, or being coerced into sending it ...

  • Tristan Greene

• TikTok Watch: High-schoolers are trolling teachers by using their first names

  The results are entertaining to watch.

  • Matthew Hughes