2016
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2016 Really Was An Awful Year For Celebrity Deaths. Here’s The Science To Prove It
Many, many well-known people passed away last year. We know this. But did it just seem like a lot? Or was it a pretty standard year, and we were just paying more attention? Someone has actually done an empirical study into if 2016 was, indeed, a dangerous year to be a celebrity, and this is…
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A Look Back At The Movies And TV Shows Of 2016 [NSFW]
Video: Do you want to take a look back at 2016? Yeah, me neither. I’ve blocked out so much of what happened this year that I’m not even sure if it was a memorable year for movies and TV shows. If I squeeze my brain really hard to remember: Spider-Man was fun in Captain America:…
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Mark Zuckerberg: A Year In Review
By some metrics, Mark Zuckerberg had an excellent year. Facebook, his supreme breadwinner, made enough money to keep a small country afloat. The platform’s user base kept growing. It became a top destination for news, and its influence over every aspect of our lives further metastasized. He even gave the Pope a model drone!
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How Much Is Facebook To Blame?
Throughout this year’s US presidential campaign, journalists have focused, correctly, on the power of Facebook to shape, distort and ultimately control the news and information that inform and educate voters. They have written dozens of stories about the proliferating number of anonymous, low-rent websites that publish bombastic and clearly inaccurate stories designed to spread throughout…