Social Media is for the Birds #nobodycares

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I guess this is better then Grindr *not* doing something...

Grindr will remove ethnicity filters in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement

After years of controversy.

www.theverge.com

 

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Interesting read.

A guide to fighting lies, fake news, and chaos online

A guide to slowing down and reading up on internet news

www.theverge.com

 

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K-pop stans are flooding right-wing hashtags like #BlueLivesMatter and #MAGA

K-pop stans take to the hashtags

www.theverge.com

K-pop stans have a fearsome reputation online, able to mobilize in vast numbers in support of their chosen cause. Usually that just means spreading the gospel of K-pop, but as protests have erupted across America in response to the police killing of George Floyd, and President Trump has threatened to send in the military against those on the streets, fans have found a new cause: flooding right-wing hashtags like #MAGA and #BlueLivesMatter with memes, GIFs, and videos of their favorite K-pop artists.

This recent political activation seems to have started after the Dallas Police Department asked the public on Sunday to submit videos of “illegal activity from the protests” via a dedicated app. Stans responded by submitting K-pop content including fancams (short, fan-recorded clips of artists) and Dallas PD were eventually forced to take down the app.

 

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K-pop stans are flooding right-wing hashtags like #BlueLivesMatter and #MAGA

K-pop stans take to the hashtags

www.theverge.com

 

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Son of a...

LinkedIn employees use forum about diversity to defend racism

As protests over the police killing of George Floyd continue to spread across the country, LinkedIn employees came together to discuss diversity and inclusion.

www.theverge.com

On Wednesday, LinkedIn hosted a town hall about racial justice in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd. The forum was supposed to be an opportunity for employees to come together and discuss how they could support one another. Instead, the conversation turned suddenly hostile, as people used the video chat’s anonymous commenting feature to defend racist sentiments and question the efficacy of the protests. The comments were first reported by The Daily Beast; The Verge has independently confirmed them.

 

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The creation of a meme -- a librarian gets onto the far-right's case (there had been claims, apparently, that the meme was created and circulated by NHS workers)

 

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How campaigns are run on social media using plausible-sounding Potemkin campaign accounts, for non-existent organisations that are no more than someone with access to Photoshop and social media.

 

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Kids now spend nearly as much time watching TikTok as YouTube in US, UK and Spain | TechCrunch

A new study on kids' app usage and habits indicates a major threat to YouTube's dominance, as kids now split their time between Google's online video

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A new study on kids’ app usage and habits indicates a major threat to YouTube’s dominance, as kids now split their time between Google’s online video platform and other apps, like TikTok, Netflix and mobile games like Roblox. Kids ages four to 15 now spend an average of 85 minutes per day watching YouTube videos, compared with 80 minutes per day spent on TikTok. The latter app also drove growth in kids’ social app use by 100% in 2019 and 200% in 2020, the report found.

The data in the annual report by digital safety app maker Qustodio was provided by 60,000 families with children ages four to 14 in the U.S., U.K. and Spain, so its data isn’t representative of global trends. The research encompasses children’s online habits from February 2019 to April 2020, takes into account the COVID-19 crisis and is specifically focused on four main categories of mobile applications: online video, social media, video games and education.

 

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On my break yesterday...

(Wanted - theft of journalism)

 

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Man sues Twitch for having too many sexy female streamers

A California sex addict is suing the video streaming platform Twitch for $25 million after claiming that the site’s overabundance of “scantily clad gamers” have caused him to injure his penis, according to the lawsuit.

In the legal document filed at a Santa Clara County court on June 15, San Francisco’s Erik Estavillo claimed that the Amazon subsidiary had “subjected him to overly suggestive and sexual content from various female streamers.”

To cure the “Twitch” in his pants, the self-proclaimed sex addict reportedly resorted to using a Fleshlight to masturbate while watching the salacious gamers, which resulted in him “chaffing” his penis every day.

The plaintiff’s randy pastime was “extremely painful” and caused him redness and mild infections that forced him to use “Neosporin on his tip to prevent necrosis,” per the 56-page document.

Estavillo alleges in the transcript he even once ejaculated on his PC monitor, which caused his gaming system to short-circuit and resulted in a fire that temporarily caused his apartment to black out.

In response to The Post’s request for comment on the allegations, a Twitch spokesperson simply stated, “These claims are frivolous and have absolutely no merit.”

 

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“female”

 

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Are TikTok activists actually shutting down Trump’s merch stores with abandoned shopping carts?

The symbolism might be more powerful than the results

www.theverge.com

Some critics of President Donald Trump have spent the last few days trying to lock up Trump-branded merchandise by leaving thousands of products from his online stores in shopping carts. But while the attack has become a kind of resistance meme, reminiscent of recent pranks on the president’s Tulsa rally, it’s far less clear whether the hoax actually prevented Trump’s stores from selling merchandise.

 

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The Grand Shift begins...

 

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A man of his word.

 

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The Grand Shift begins...

Hahahaha!

Just Like Every Other Platform, Parler Will Take Down Content And Face Impossible Content Moderation Choices

Like Gab before it, the hot new Twitter-wannabe service for assholes and trolls kicked off of Twitter is Parler. The President and a bunch of his supporters have hyped it up, and the latest is that…

www.techdirt.com

Their user agreement includes this:

Parler may remove any content and terminate your access to the Services at any time and for any reason or no reason, although Parler endeavors to allow all free speech that is lawful and does not infringe the legal rights of others. Any invitation made by Parler to you to use the Services or submit content to the Services, or the fact that Parler may receive a benefit from your use of the Services or provision of content to the Services, will not obligate Parler to maintain any content or maintain your access to the Services. Parler will have no liability to you for removing any content, for terminating your access to the Services, or for modifying or terminating the Services, at any time and in any way and for any reason or no reason. Although the Parler Guidelines provide guidance to you regarding content that is not appropriate, Parler is free to remove content and terminate your access to the Services even where the Guidelines have been followed.

 

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Alarming if true (which it probably is)