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Twitter Seems to Believe Its Problem Is People Can’t Pack Enough Bile and Bullshit into 140 Characters
CEO Jack Dorsey announced the news of a trial run of a 280-character limit for people who tweet in English. Teresa Kroeger/Getty Images “This is a small change, but a big move for us,” Twitter’s CEO just tweeted. This is a small change, but a big move for us. 140 was an arbitrary choice based […]
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It’s Been a Year Since Gawker Died, Long Live Gawker
Hulk Hogan and Peter Thiel killed Gawker a year ago today. pool/getty Today marks one year since the end of Gawker, an online media company undone by a rich guy with a grudge. As Sydney wrote last year, Gawker was on the receiving end of plenty of hate (some of it deserved) during its time, […]
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Maddow on White Supremacist Violence: “A Persistent Infection in White American Culture”
Rachel Maddow opened last night with a timely reminder: white supremacist and neo-Nazi violence is nothing new. Demonstrations, robberies, assassinations, hostage-takings, and efforts by racist rightwing extremists to start a race war—nothing new. “It always seems amazing every time it surfaces, but we have always had it,” Maddow said of American white supremacism and neo-Nazism. […]
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BuzzFeed Is Starting a Morning Show That Will Live-Stream Daily on Twitter
In case you are not a millennial, the “DM” in the show’s title stands for “direct message.”
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Some Are Cracking Under Pressure of Peak TV, Pop Culture References, and the Normalization of Obsessive Fandom
I don’t care about game of thrones pic.twitter.com/uyWOuuym24— derek (@eedrk) July 24, 2017 It’s true: movies can’t kill you. Score one for the mountains. In other news… the trailer for Stranger Things Season 2 is out…
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ICYMI: Pressed During Debate, NRA Spokesperson Gives Statement About Philando Castile’s Death
CNN Remember that frighteningly unhinged ad from the National Rifle Association? You know, the one that attacked cities and maybe kinda-sorta called for violence using “us” vs. “them” rhetoric? Yesterday, Women’s March organizer Tamika Mallory debated NRA spokesperson and ad star Dana Loesch on CNN. Mallory slammed Loesch and the NRA for their “narrow” representation […]
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Trump Administration: Ignore the President’s Tweets
Both Kellyanne “Lying Liar” Conway and Sebastian “Closet Nazi” Gorka went on television yesterday and slammed the media for covering Trump’s tweets: Two advisers to President Donald Trump attacked morning show hosts for covering the president’s tweets after he issued a series of statements pushing his “travel ban,” an executive order banning U.S. entry for […]
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While the President Rails Against “Fake News,” Manipulative Aides Slip Him Actual Fake News
“I just read this thing someone printed off the Internet and put on my desk. Very upsetting. We gotta do something.” Getty Images Fresh dismay, courtesy of today’s Politico report on how President Donald Trump gets his fake news. The story begins with Trump’s chief of staff trying to get control over what news reaches […]
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Bisexual People Are Fighting Invisibility and Erasure on Twitter
Being the B in LGBT can feel isolating sometimes. Twitter users wanted to change that. Marc Bruxelle Beginning Wednesday, Twitterers across the globe have been celebrating bisexuality and combatting cultural erasure of their identity through the hashtag #BiTwitter. Sure, things trend on social media all the time, but this time, it’s a little different. After […]
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Lindy West Quits Twitter: “It Is Unusable for Anyone But Trolls, Robots and Dictators”
I disagree that it is “unusable” for people like me. Though I did LOL when Twitter’s founder asked for feedback and had the above interaction. Lindy West is not known for understatement, going along with authority figures, or sugar-coating. She takes a fierce stand when it comes to trolls: She wants to defeat them or […]