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YouTube Says It Will Temporarily Block Channels That Share Election Disinformation
After years of warnings that YouTube is fostering the political radicalisation of a generation by allowing debunked conspiracy theory content to thrive on its platform, the biggest streaming video site on the web seems to be feeling a little jumpy. Following the Wednesday attack by rioters on Capitol Hill, YouTube says it will be taking…
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Help This YouTuber Paint His Video Thumbnail Using Nothing but Comments
When it comes to the rules of the internet, you can always count on two things to be true: crowdsourced projects will fly off the rails, and YouTube commenters are the worst. Despite these foundational principles, YouTuber Sean Hodgins has thrown caution to the wind and hacked together a little experiment that allows people like…
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New Tech Developments We’re Actually Excited About in 2021
2021 will be the year of being thankful that the world hasn’t completely ended. I don’t want to hear any “we were promised flying cars”-style whining. The new year will be all about rethinking how far we’ve come, where we’re already going, and how much we’ve been getting wrong along the way.
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Mysterious Computer Shop Owner Sues Twitter for Defamation Over Hunter Biden Story
Back in October, Twitter temporarily blocked a New York Post story that was reportedly based on materials taken from a laptop owned by Hunter Biden. The story’s dubious sourcing and suspicious timing led to widespread scepticism, and Twitter decided to temporarily ban links to the story under its policy against sharing “hacked materials.” Now, the…