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[Link] BeReal Isn’t Real and Makes Everyone Look Extremely Boring
Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com
BeReal is the anti-Instagram social media app that’s designed to show people’s lives as they really are by encouraging users to post during random, two-minute time increments during the day.
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[Link] Police Arrest Man For Uploading ‘Parasite’ Movie Edit to YouTube
Read: 13/3/2022 torrentfreak.com
Police in Japan have just arrested another man for posting 10-movie summaries to YouTube including the hit Korean drama 'Parasite'.
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[Link] This TikTok-Viral WFH Mouse Jiggler Will Make Your Boss Think You're Online
Read: 9/3/2022 www.vice.com
A fair point.
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[Link] AEC preparing to combat Trump-style misinformation in 2022 election
Read: 27/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
Social media companies should commit to taking down unauthorised political material in agreed timeframes to combat misinformation in elections, according to the Australian electoral commissioner, Tom Rogers.
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[Link] ‘It is surreal’: the five-second book reviews going viral on TikTok
Read: 2/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Fifteen seconds is all you need. Point your phone camera to a shelf and hold up your favourite book, or three. Add a trending soundtrack, a caption, a couple of hashtags – #BookTok #FYP. Throw a pandemic into the mix and you have the formula: you can make a book review go viral.
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[Link] Black TikTokers Are Tired of Not Getting Paid for the Moves You Stole
Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com
But neither of them created that choreography. It was Jalaiah Harmon, who was 14 years old at the time. Neither D’Amelio nor Rae initially gave her credit, and they apologized only after being called out. Influencers like Rae and D’Amelio have turned their stardom into lucrative careers.
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[Link] Should politicians like Peter Dutton suck up Twitter’s hot-gives and -takes or pursue vindication?
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
You’ve got to wonder how Peter Dutton, one of the most wealthy and overstretched members of federal parliament, fathoms up the wherewithal to sue for defamation an unemployed, crowdfunded refugee advocate who called him something nasty on Twitter. Busy? You bet you are.
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[Link] Constant Craving: How Digital Media Turned Us All Into Dopamine Addicts
Read: 3/11/2021 getpocket.com
According to addiction expert Dr. Anna Lembke, our smartphones are making us dopamine junkies, with each swipe, like and tweet feeding our habit. So how do we beat our digital dependency?
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[Link] Inside the Facebook Group that Sexualises Pregnant Women
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
The group, whose name in Malay “Koleksi Mak Buyung Malaysia'' translates to “My Collection of Pregnant Women,” attracted at least 5,000 members before it was removed on Monday evening for “violating site policies”.
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[Link] Alleged TikTok ‘Skyrim IRL’ Murders Shows the Real Danger of Stalkerware
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Last week Ali Nassar Abulaban, a popular TikTok and other social media personality with over a million followers combined across his accounts, allegedly murdered his wife and a man.
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[Link] What Crisis? Facebook Made $9 Billion In Profit in the Last 3 Months
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. On the face of it, Facebook has been having one of the worst weeks in its history.
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[Link] What We Know About the ‘Skeletal’ Remains of Brian Laundrie
Read: 22/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed Thursday that remains found at a Florida nature park belonged to Brian Laundrie, the 23-year-old who was a person of interest in the death of his fiancée, 22-year-old Gabby Petito.
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[Link] Netflix Isn’t Backing Down on Dave Chappelle and Neither Are Its Workers
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Employees have pledged to walk out of work on Wednesday, including the LGBTQ+ storytelling team and its head of queer editorial.
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[Link] Kids and their computers: Several hours a day of screen time is OK, study suggests
Read: 17/10/2021 theconversation.com
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. Even when kids spend five hours a day on screen – whether computers, television or text – it doesn’t appear to be harmful.
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[Link] The Gamers Who Regularly Stream to No One
Read: 14/10/2021 www.vice.com
Alex has been streaming for an average of six viewers for nearly three years. Alex, who goes by cobaltgear on Twitch, has been streaming mostly pre-2010 games from his California home since 2017. The numbers tend to vary.
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[Link] How friend ‘lost to misinformation’ drove Facebook whistleblower
Read: 5/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Frances Haugen, the whistleblower behind a series of damaging revelations about Facebook, is adamant that she wants to help the social media giant and not foment hatred of it.
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[Link] Facebook Knew Its Algorithm Fed QAnon Content to Users Within a Week
Read: 5/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Facebook knew its recommendation algorithm was a problem, so it set up a study to test out just how bad the problem was.
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[Link] Reddit Just Banned One of the Biggest Subreddits for COVID-19 Misinformation
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
A week after its CEO said that COVID misinformation wasn’t much of a problem on the site, Reddit has reversed course and banned r/NoNewNormal, a subreddit it said was responsible for massive amounts of COVID-19 misinformation on the site.
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[Link] Nazis and incels are using Gotye and MGMT to evade TikTok's auto-moderators, report finds
Read: 25/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
While it's hardly surprising fringe groups have used social media platforms to post hateful material, experts say TikTok has birthed creative ways to distribute the content and avoid auto-takedowns.
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[Link] We Talked to a Dealer Selling Ivermectin Through Shady Facebook Ads
Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com
Facebook makes money by allowing people to buy ads on its platform depicting ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug commonly used in veterinary medicine, as a treatment for or preventative measure against COVID-19, even though there's no scientific evidence it's effective when used this way.
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[Link] Brunswick’s Good Karma Network shuts amid claims of ‘toxic positivity’, racism
Read: 22/8/2021 www.theage.com.au
It began as a place online where you could share excess lemons with your neighbours, pass on clothes your kids had outgrown or lend someone a power tool: a utopian vision of an online community sharing gifts and advice.
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[Link] At Home and Broke? Steal an Instagram Story of Somebody Else’s Fancy Dinner
Read: 11/8/2021 www.vice.com
Daniel Greenberg, the head of commerce at MSCHF, said that he was sold on the New York art and design collective’s latest drop after testing it on his own Instagram account.
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[Link] We Tried the Viral TikTok Face Mask That Makes You Look Old
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
In our quest for glowing, youthful skin and hair, we’ve tried it all. We’ve consulted skin care savants, we’ve oiled our pubes, and we’ve spelunked through Sephora sales.
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