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| Mar 22, 2021 | The Node: NFTs Made It to ‘Then They Mock You’ Even Faster Than Bitcoin Did | My all-time favorite movie review came out in 2012 when The New Yorker tasked Anthony Lane with covering “The Amazing Spider-Man” and “Take This Waltz.” Really, I just like the end of the first paragraph, which makes a distinctly New Yorker... |
| Mar 26, 2020 | Facebook gives step-by-step instructions on how to spot fake news | Sign up for our special edition newsletter to get a daily update on the coronavirus pandemic.
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Unsettling footage shows children in Shanghai wearing hazmat suits on way to school Fully vaccinated health care worker catch... |
| Mar 26, 2020 | Facebook gives step-by-step instructions on how to spot fake news | Sign up for our special edition newsletter to get a daily update on the coronavirus pandemic.
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Nicki Minaj exposes how anti-vaxxers aren't always who liberal media says — and the folly of Biden's hectoring Anti... |
| Feb 4, 2020 | Cards Against Humanity acquires ClickHole, will make employees the majority owners | Cards Against Humanity, the company behind the card game of the same name, has acquired the satirical site ClickHole from G/O Media.
BuzzFeed News broke the story last night, reporting that ClickHole’s employees will become the majority own... |
| Dec 20, 2018 | Rational Security: The 'Syria Later' Edition | The future of Brexit is...anyone’s guess. A sealed subpoena and a courtroom smackdown: The latest on L’Affaire Russe. And the U.S. announces it’s withdrawing troops from Syria.
Ben has found a plant he can’t kill.
Tamara hits a career miles... |
| Jan 19, 2018 | Yes, cities should indeed fight for tech jobs | Few events have jolted the urban planning crowd quite like Amazon’s process for selecting the company’s new second headquarters (dubbed HQ2). The company put up a massive carrot of 50,000 jobs and $5 billion in investment, and then proceede... |
| Oct 26, 2017 | Startup Spotlight: Can a machine learn to laugh? Botnik crosses a comedian with AI to find out | Jamie Brew and Elle O’Brien, the Seattle-based half of Botnik. Bob Mankoff and Joseph Parker are based in New York and Florida, respectively. (Botnik Photo)
If the game Cards Against Humanity and those refrigerator poetry magnets had a digi... |
| Jul 21, 2017 | Term Sheet — Friday, July 21 | BLIND EYE
The following column appeared in the latest print issue of Fortune.
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He’s not alone in that sentiment. Startup land expects, and receives, constant hype and ador... |
| Jan 8, 2016 | How to Make Online Discourse Less of a Trash Fire in 2016 | No.
The idea of the internet troll as a grotty men's rights activist in Milwaukee, gently marinating in his own smegma and Cheetos crumbs, make us feel safe. It's easy to deal with online criticism or abuse when you don't res... |
| Nov 15, 2015 | Inside, Robot | Before the robots replace us we will make love to them. This point is becoming increasingly clear as I wander through the odd world of teledildonics and marvel at the leaps and bounds by which the technology – once in the realm of fantasy –... |
| Sep 24, 2015 | Rational Security: The "Je Suis Francis" Edition | Tamara talks about Russia's intervention in Syria. Good luck with that. Shane discusses the U.S. and China's contemplation of a “cyber arms treaty.” Good luck with that too. And I talk about the New York Times editorial board'... |
| Aug 31, 2015 | EXCLUSIVE: This Bushwick engineer built a WICKEDLY good Daily Mail parody site | One of the best things about Best Stories Online is that its satirical stories aren’t really different from the Daily Mail stories it parodies. The heinous ads that show up on the sidebar and below articles look so authentic that when you c... |
| Sep 10, 2014 | Internet Slowdown Day Generated 1,000 Calls Per Minute To Congress | A brief update on how the Internet Slowdown Day effort went, in case you missed it. Tons of sites jumped on board, including my favorite, Clickhole (The Onion’s lovingly wonderful attempt to satirize clickbait sites), which showed off image... |
| Aug 25, 2014 | Facebook Learns People Hate Clickbait; You Won’t Believe What Happened Next | Three months after Facebook product head Mike Hudack’s infamous rage against the media landscape his company helped create, the world’s largest social network is taking a stand against “clickbait”—stories with misleading, incomplete or sens... |
| Aug 17, 2014 | Facebook tests 'satire' tag to avoid confusion on News Feed | Anu Passary, Tech Times 17 August 2014, 09:08 am
Facebook is testing a "satire" tag so that users do not get confused about the authenticity when they see certain headlines on the News feed.
Several satirical news publications lik... |
| Aug 15, 2014 | Does Facebook think users are dumb? “Satire” tag added to Onion articles [Updated] | Not all links on Facebook will get slapped with a "satire" tag, but if users click through an Onion article and return to their feeds, they'll probably find some stuff that's been tagged. reader comments 131 with 111 pos... |
| Aug 5, 2014 | Whysk Is Here to Redefine On-Demand Transportation | Clickhole, The Onion’s self-described “latest and greatest online social experience filled with the most clickable, irresistibly shareable content anywhere on the internet,” is fun. It really is. It’s a self-aware Buzzfeed. It’s a self-loat... |
| Aug 5, 2014 | How Will The TLC React To Whysk, Clickhole’s New Uber Competitor? | Sometimes the key to making a good startup is modifying an existing idea with slight improvements. Whysk, a new transportation venture profiled in the video above, is iterating on the service provided by companies like Uber and Lyft, but wi... |
| Aug 4, 2014 | Monday Morning Cup of Coffee: BofA mortgage woes piling up | Monday Morning Cup of Coffee takes a look at news crossing HousingWire's weekend desk, with more coverage to come on bigger issues.
Zillow’s (Z) survey of 104 economists for their home price expectation report show a strong belief that... |
| Jun 12, 2014 | The Onion's viral news site, Clickhole, is as funny as it is smart | Despite the growing backlash against clickbait hyperbole overtaking our social media feeds, viral media sites find new ways to crawl their way back into our lives.
Now, parody news site The Onion has its answer to viral news madness: A new ... |
| Jun 12, 2014 | 6 Ways The Onion’s Clickbait Parody Site Is Everything – What You Read Here May Change Your Life | Today, The Onion launched Clickhole, its self-described “latest and greatest online social experience filled with the most clickable, irresistibly shareable content anywhere on the internet.”
And here’s why it’s absolutely everything.
1. It... |
| Jun 12, 2014 | The Onion’s ClickHole Opens Its Traffic-Baiting Maw | If you want to gorge yourself on listicles and surveys and headlines that promise things “you won’t believe” (let’s stop being so damn incredulous shall we?), there’s a new hot dog stand in town. The Onion has launched ClickHole, its BuzzFe... |
| Apr 30, 2014 | The Onion Asks Itself ‘What Kind Of BuzzFeed Parody Are You?’ With New Website ClickHole | BuzzFeed and Upworthy are tough to parody, since they seem to cross the line into self-parody often enough, but news lampoon site The Onion is going to give it a shot anyway. The joke media giant is launching ClickHole this June according t... |