census
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Trump Insists He Could’ve Won Without Social Media During Morning Toilet Tweets
Donald Trump insisted in a tweet yesterday morning, U.S. time, that he could’ve won the presidency in 2016 without the help of social media. But Trump immediately contradicted himself, sending out a series of follow-up tweets claiming that he doesn’t need the mainstream media and that social media is much more important.
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Facebook Claimed It Could Sell Ads To 10 Million More Millennials Than Actually Exist
Citing census data, an equity research analyst claims Facebook is once again inflating one of its key metrics, this time grossly over-reporting its ability to sell ads and effectively inventing millions more young Americans than actually exist.
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#CensusFail 2016: ABS Fluffed Off Concerns About DDoS Attacks
Remember the #censusfail incident last year when millions of Australians were unable to fill out the mandatory Census online because the website was slammed by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack? It appears the ABS was overconfident about the website’s ability to fend of a DDoS attack.
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ABS Says IBM Screwed Up The Census
More details about exactly what lead to the Census website shutdown on 9 August have come to light — with The Australian Bureau of Statistics stating in a Senate inquiry IBM “failed to properly implement” geoblocking, leaving it wide open to denial of service attacks.