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1,300 adult performers accuse Instagram of unfairly deleting their accounts
The Adult Performers Actors Guild (APAG) has a list of over 1,300 performers who say their accounts have been unfairly deleted ...
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Everything the Cybertruck looks like, according to the internet
Elon Musk revealed the Cybertruck, Tesla's handsome new machine, in all its angular glory. It's a very cool car, but that doesn't mean the internet isn't going to poke fun at how utterly weird it looks. If you can count on Twitter and Reddit for nothing else, you can count on it ...
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These songs inspired by Trump's handwritten quid pro quo defense are peak Twitter
The Twitter-verse is alive with the sound of music that was inspired by the most unusual of lyricists: US President Donald J. Trump. Earlier this week the embattled number 45 put on one of the strangest performances of his presidency as he spoke to media outside the White House. ...
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Unlike Facebook, Snapchat will fact-check political ads
In an interview with CNBC, Evan Spiegel, Snapchat's CEO, said his company will fact-check and review all ads on the platform, ...
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Facebook let anti-vaxxers run rampant with misinformation ads, because money
Earlier this year Facebook said it would crack down on ads from groups peddling misinformation about vaccines. The announcement was heralded by medical professionals and pundits as a capstone in their efforts to fight the pro-disease movement. However, in the time since the announcement, ...
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265 Indian fake news sites caught pushing anti-Pakistan propaganda
Researchers have discovered a network of 265 fake local news sites across 65 countries that are being used to disseminate ...
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The EU is coming after big tech again — this time for political ads
The EU is said to be considering new political ad regulations so that "people know who is behind the campaigning, who pays ...
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How a ban on political ads is the second best gift Twitter ever gave Trump
The climate crisis is a heavily partisan issue in US politics. Thought it's not a hard-and-fast rule, most Democrats believe the fossil fuel industry needs to be heavily-checked and nearly all Republicans accept money from oil companies. There are Democrats who take money from big ...
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Study: Social media to blame for declining internet freedom this decade — it's down to US to fix
A new study published by Freedom House has blamed social media as a whole for the reason of declining internet freedom in ...
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WTF: A California teacher wore blackface in class to rap about AI
A white California high school teacher showed up for classes in blackface last week as part of his Halloween costume. Social ...
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It’s ‘impossible to exist’ on Facebook as an NSFW artist
Facebook updated its policies, under the guise of preventing “sexual solicitation,” and now restricts solicitation involving ...
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Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
Instagram is now locking down its platform by preventing signed-out users from having unlimited access to public profiles. ...
