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The ‘Most Cancelled Man’ In America Gets His Platform Back on Twitter
Nick Fuentes, a known white nationalist streamer who pushes Holocaust denial conspiracies and other anti-Semitic hate, has a lingering, if not growing presence across social media. He has followers subtly spreading his ideology on sites like Instagram, but now Elon Musk and Twitter has done the overt racist, homophobe, and anti-Semite a solid by giving…
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Behind the Scenes, TikTok Employees Are Pulling the Strings of Virality
Hitting the viral internet jackpot might seem like a combination of algorithm and luck (with, sure, a dose of talent or skill). But it’s not all the result of a pre-programmed black box of computer coded decision making. Employees at TikTok and ByteDance reportedly have a hidden tool up their sleeves: a feature internally referred…
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The U.S. Feds Are Investigating How Big Data Hurts Marginalised Groups
The Commerce Department announced Wednesday that it is launching an investigation into how widespread data collection and corporate surveillance pose an outsized risk to marginalised groups.
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Video of Nepal Plane Crash Circulates Online as Investigators Piece Together What Went Wrong
The final moments aboard the deadly Yeti Airlines plane heading for Nepal surfaced in a video mere moments before the aircraft came crashing to the ground following an explosion on Sunday, killing all 72 passengers on board.