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Two Weeks Later, QAnon Supporters Are Still Awaiting JFK Jr.’s Return at the Grassy Knoll
One might think that after waiting around Dallas, Texas for weeks expecting JFK Jr. (a man who is dead) to emerge and give a surprise speech restoring Donald Trump to the presidency, one would simply conclude that JFK Jr. is dead and he’s not going to do that. That is not the case for QAnon…
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Verification Badges May Actually Encourage Users to Post Fake News, Study Finds
One potential reason for the explosion of hoaxes, political disinformation, and fabricated clickbait on social media in recent years is the goddamn blue checkmarks, according to new peer-reviewed research accepted for publication in the Journal of Management Information Systems.
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Palantir Co-Founder Starts Anti-Woke University With Clown Car of Intellectual Dark Web Dweebs
A sampling of the nation’s most intolerable contrarian columnists, right-wing pundits, and other stuffed shirts is launching their own university in a bid to challenge the supposedly woke academic status quo — courtesy of funding from an obscure libertarian nonprofit linked to Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse May Be Coming to a Crumbling Strip Mall Near You
Facebook — sorry, it’s calling itself Meta now — is planning on dipping consumers’ toes in the so-called metaverse by launching retail stores to showcase AR and VR products, the New York Times reported on Friday.