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James Charles trends after Twitter mob falsely accuse him of saying the n-word during song
Charles said he skipped over the word but the Twitter mob came for him anyway.
Hank Green deletes tweet accusing YouTubers of trying to create “victimhood narrative for themselves”
The tweet was in relation to distrust in the media.
“Fact checker” deletes Twitter account after comments saying Monsey attack on Jews was “complicated”
The inflammatory comments faced backlash online.
New data shows strange patterns in Rotten Tomatoes Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker audience reviews
The Audience Score for the movie has been stuck at 86% since it gained over 60,000 reviews.
Instagram meme fact checkers acknowledge “concerning” shrinking of freedom of expression
The fact checker Africa Check seems oblivious that their actions are contributing to the decline in freedom of expression.
Another study debunks the media’s “YouTube radicalization” theory
Despite all the evidence to the contrary, the “radicalization” myth remains.
Congressional candidate Brianna Wu uses debunked The Last Jedi Russian bots myth to solicit campaign donations
The myth that Russian bots were behind most of the backlash against the movie has been thoroughly debunked.
The myth that Russian bots provided the criticism against The Last Jedi is back
A New York Times article reignited the myth.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score for The Rise of Skywalker stuck at 86%, raises suspicion
The Audience Score for the divisive movie has remained at 86%, despite almost 50,000 reviews being added.
The internet reacts to CBC cutting Donald Trump’s 10-second Home Alone 2 cameo to save for “commercial time”
Users are calling it an act of censorship. CBC says the edits were made in 2014.
CBC writer: Baby Yoda memes are problematic and Disney should crack down on them
Hot take of the year.
HBO begins production on TV series of sci-fi classic Snow Crash
The series is set in a not-too-unrecognizable dystopian future where conglomerates run entire neighborhoods like mini fifedoms