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On Monday, Microsoft made it public that they are shutting down their attempt at a Twitch competitor (Mixer) less than a year after luring Ninja and some other big name creators to the brand via exclusivity deals. That shutdown becomes official on July 22. According to Forbes, this move came after Mixer acquired almost no […]
If the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air‘s Uncle Phil was the celebrity father figure of the millennials, Will Smith has now become Gen Z’s version of the late James Avery. As a result, it was fitting that Jada Pinkett-Smith used the Father’s Day episode of Red Table Talk to have a conversation with her husband. During their conversation, […]
The North Face has become one of the biggest brands to join the latest advertising boycott against Facebook due to the company’s inaction towards Donald Trump’s racist, inflammatory and violence-inciting posts on their platforms. “We’re in. We’re Out,” North Face tweeted on their official account on Friday afternoon in response to a tweet with a quote […]
As protests over the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police continue, Facebook executives have openly criticized Mark Zuckerberg’s stance on Donald Trump. As The New York Times reports, a number of high-profile Facebook employees staged a virtual walkout on Monday to protest the company’s decision to take no action over Trump’s more extreme […]
Following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, protests have sparked across the country as citizens have taken to the streets to voice their outrage at his wrongful death. Amidst the protests, riots have also begun to break out in the city of Minneapolis as well, invoking President Trump to take to […]
Facebook has once again banned Natural News, an infamous peddler of conspiracy-focused content. But the ban wasn’t due to the outlet’s propagation of fake news—it was for alleged spam tactics. The tech giant made the move last week after discovering the outlet was using troll farms from North Macedonia and the Philippines to spread its articles, many of which included false information […]
According to a report published on Tuesday by The Wall Street Journal top executives at Facebook either weakened or completely threw out solutions that had been proposed after an internal investigation of theirs found evidence that the social media juggernaut had been intensifying divisiveness and polarization amongst its users. This issue (which you probably already […]
A video of an Oklahoma delivery truck driver being blocked in a neighborhood during a stressful confrontation has gone viral after initially being posted on Facebook. The driver, Travis Miller, and his co-worker were making a delivery to a home in Oklahoma City when a man alleging to be the neighborhood’s homeowners association president blocked Miller’s […]
Conspiracy theories have been floating around since coronavirus started to take hold. But, one Manchester, England woman was unknowingly tangled in this web of lies. Sarah-Louise Cooper told BuzzFeed News that her friends informed her that her pictures were being used to spread a fake story about the coronavirus pandemic on Facebook. “Every single photo is mine,” Cooper said […]
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot definitely isn’t happy about this. Just when it seemed like quarantine regulations were starting to catch on, a video surfaced proving otherwise. Per TMZ, over 1,000 people met up on the West Side of Chicago for a party. Not only was this crowd way over the ten-person limit, they also ignored social […]
