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Running Amok
The conduct on display in Gaza is part psychological warfare, part colonial theatre, part occupation soldiers having fun, and none of it is new. By Mary Turfah
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ICQ, RIP: Why all instant messaging disappears (in the end)
ICQ's impending shutdown is making us downright nostalgic. How do you remember using the once mighty cross-platform client?
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Why Bluesky Remains The Most Interesting Experiment In Social Media, By Far
These days, everyone hates big tech, and that’s often for very good reasons. You shouldn’t trust giant centralized companies that have collected a ridiculous amount of data on you. There are few re…
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#Happy: The Dictatorship of Happiness on Social Media
We spend hours on Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, seduced by their promise: to be able to share our life and our opinions with the whole world. In this virtual world, everyone is happy. Everyone has perfect bodies, lives fulfilled lives in stylish houses surrounded by beautiful friends and family. Everyone shows off and everyone judges. But this irresistible quest for recognition can quickly turn into addiction, wreaking havoc on our mental health. And teenagers are the most susceptible. In this film, we examine the real dangers of the “happycracy” promoted on social networks and hear from some of its young victims.
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Elon Only Started Buying Up Twitter Shares After Twitter Refused To Ban Plane Tracking Account
Far from being the free-speech advocate he claims to be, Elon’s purchase of twitter suggests that from the very start a major motivation in the purchase, was to silence accounts he disliked.
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Jessica Ashooh: The taming of Reddit and the National Security State Plant tabbed to do it
How and why did a hawkish young mandarin hothoused at elite universities and in the halls of state power end up an executive at an anarchic messageboard site with an anti-establishment reputation?
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The rise and fall of Usenet: How the original social media platform came to be
With Google dropping support for the oldest of social networks, Usenet is now left without another major entry gate.
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What's the golden age of online services? Well, now is good
Yearning for the pre-web internet can be misplaced... it certainly wasn't user-friendly
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Why This Ghostwriter Loves His Haters
Bestselling author and ghostwriter Joshua Lisec explains how to turn internet criticism into increased publicity, higher click rates, and more revenue.
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Would you pay $17 a month for Facebook and Instagram?
Europeans will soon have the option to pay to stop ads in Meta apps. Yes, there’s a catch.
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Reddit will start paying you real money for your karma
Reddit announced a contributor program on Monday, which awards users actual, real money for their fake internet points. Now, eligible users will be able
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Reddit Is No Longer the "Weird" Social Media. It’s Also Not Quite Normal.
There’s the Reddit of ‘Dumb Money’ that prompted a major fiasco in the finance industry, and then there’s the Reddit of celebrity AMAs and refining your pedestrian Google searches. On today’s Reddit, you can have both.
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Get started with Nostr
This guide will help you understand the basics of Nostr and get you all set up and ready to use Nostr with a new account. We’ll cover how to create a new lightning wallet, create an account, and sign into a client safely.
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Facebook is getting rid of the News tab in Europe
Meta plans to deprecate the Facebook News tab in early December for users in the U.K., France and Germany.
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Burning Man memes are swamping social media
Tens of thousands of festivalgoers are stranded in a remote Nevada lake bed, trapped in mud. The internet is less than sympathetic.
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It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore
Social media is on the decline. Instagram is all ads. No one's posting on BeReal. TikTok is for influencers. The new place for sharing: group chats.
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Will Musk’s Removing X/Twitter User-Blocking Feature Get It Kicked Off Apple and Google App Stores?
Elon Musk set off a firestorm Friday by announcing that Twitter, now called X, would “delete” the service’s longstanding user-blocking feature — raising the prospect that, a…
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15-year-old social media influencer who claims her parents ripped her off inspires Illinois law allowing kids to sue
"The rise of social media has given children new opportunities to earn a profit,” Sen. David Koehler said. “Many parents have taken this opportunity to pocket the money.”
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Threads Has Been 8 Years in the Making, but App Was Built in Just 6 Months
Twitter's troubled state helped push Meta's competitor along to launch
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How To Grow Your Hearts On Tiktok
Do you want to grow big with TikTok? You can be active on TikTok to increase TikTok hearts fast. You can buy TikTok hearts to transform your TikTok presence. Your path to TikTok fame starts with more hearts. Let's go!