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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey suggests a decentralized future for Twitter
The idea is somewhat at odds with how Twitter has operated up to this point.
YouTube is training thousands of raters to enforce its new harassment policy
YouTube has already removed comedy videos and political commentary videos under this policy.
Verizon Media rumored to lay off 150 more staff before Christmas
Reports say the layoffs are imminent.
YouTube purges iDubbbz Content Cop video and comedy videos as it retroactively enforces new harassment policy
Creators had feared that this new policy would trigger a massive purge on the site.
New “WhatsApp by Facebook” loading screen causes some users to threaten to abandon the app
Somehow, this is what it took for some users.
YouTube purge to hit creators with harsh punishments for going “too far” with insults, mockery and even jokes
YouTube creators have been predicting that a December YouTube purge was coming. Here it is.
Facebook malfunction suggests its ads transparency tools are missing data
Journalists are spooked.
Comedian Andrew Doyle trolled The Independent into publishing woke parody hoax as fact
Andrew Doyle, the comedian behind Titania McGrath, said these hoaxes reveal that “the social justice ideology has infected our mainstream media.”
Tom Brokaw laments lack of trust in journalists in social media era, “we’ve lost control”
Brokaw seems to think fake news is something new.
Merriam-Webster dictionary chooses personal pronoun “they” as “word of the year”
For 2018 it was “justice.” For 2017, it was “feminism.”
The Pirate Bay is testing movie streaming
Users don’t have to download anything – just hit play.
Twitch users shocked after being banned from a stream as streamer purges every “little poor person”
“Can you ban every little poor person who can’t afford a sub?”