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Facebook to hide number of likes in trial aimed at improving users' wellbeing
Social media giant said the move was backed by anti-bullying and mental health groups
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Reddit bans r/donaldtrump forum for inciting violence
Reddit warned moderators of "repeated policy violations."
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Happy Birthday, Wikipedia
Lessons from the success of a different sort of tech titan
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Front-end predictions for 2021 and beyond | Browser London
Where is front-end development heading in 2021? Jay Freestone examines trends and technologies that will shape web development this year.
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A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?
In 1995, a WIRED cofounder challenged a Luddite-loving doomsayer to a prescient wager on tech and civilization’s fate. Now their judge weighs in.
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5 Podcast Biz Predictions for 2021
The year ahead may represent a period for the podcast space less tumultuous than that of 2020, a year when many brands paused ad spending to weather the initial damage of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Study: Folklore structure reveals how conspiracy theories emerge, fall apart
Rumors swirling around 2016 Wikileaks dump was glue that held "Pizzagate" together.
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Facts won't fix this: experts on how to fight America's disinformation crisis
Trump’s false claims about the election and coronavirus are taking a dangerous toll. Can the divide be healed?
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New research shows online dating can cultivate a rejection mindset
A group of psychologists in the Netherlands have discovered that we have a tendency to gradually close ourselves off when dating online.
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Pirate Site Search Traffic Tanked Following Google Updates
A detailed analysis of the yearly pirate site traffic trends shows that visitors from search engines dropped by roughly a third.
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Did Social Media Kill the Open Web?
What does the social web's growth mean for the open web?
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Reddit clone Voat, home to hate speech and QAnon, has shut down
The platform was a haven for communities deemed too racist or hateful for Reddit.
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Facebook is the worst brand of the year
The year 2020 straddles the massive gap between the company Facebook projects itself to be and the one defined by its IRL actions.
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The Fetishization of Mr. Rogers’s ‘Look for the Helpers’
Turning the reassuring line for children into a meme for adults should make everyone uncomfortable.
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The Internet Is Starting to Turn on MLMs
Multilevel-marketing companies rely on social media for recruiting. TikTok just became the first major platform to ban it.
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Chatroulette Is On the Rise Again—With Help From AI
The hottest app of early 2010 faded quickly when it was flooded with unwanted nudity. Smarter content moderation is helping to revive it.
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Zoomification of society: Tech’s influence (and necessity) was impossible to ignore in 2020
After a pandemic year that pushed more of life online, the idea of spending even more time on the internet doesn't sound so crazy anymore.
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Introducing the Open Library Explorer
Try it here! If you like it, share it.
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With the Election Over, Facebook Gets Back to Spreading Misinformation
Turns out what's good for the world is bad for Mark Zuckerberg’s bottom line.
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Ryan Kaji, 9, earns $29.5m as this year's highest-paid YouTuber
Ryan’s World ‘child influencer’ also made estimated $200m from branded toys and clothing
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