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| Aug 8, 2026 | Теорема Миттаг-Леффлера: главная теорема всего комплексного анализа | Возьмите функцию на комплексной плоскости, у которой производная существует всюду, кроме отдельных изолированных точек.
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| Aug 5, 2026 | Cyclospora Kills Two in Michigan After Taylor Farms Lobbied to Delay Its Recall | By Donald C. Case
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| Jul 17, 2026 | CDC Links Record Cyclospora Outbreak to Taylor Farms Lettuce at Taco Bell | By Frederick Rodriguez
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| May 30, 2026 | Berkshire trails red-hot S&P 500 by biggest margin so far this year | (This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.)
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| Apr 26, 2026 | Page: Trump, the pope and the gospel of ‘Pulp Fiction’ | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
It is hardly surprising that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s explicitly Christian monthly worship services monthly in the Pentagon have raised alarm in some quarters about the separation of chu... |
| Jan 20, 2026 | Because ICE Is Losing In Minnesota, Hegseth Is Prepping For Actual Martial Law | LOL this government thought actual murder would shut Minneapolis down. You absolute idiots. Whatever kills us makes us stronger. And I say that as only a part-time Minnesotan. I’ve split time between there and South Dakota over the past cou... |
| Aug 27, 2025 | Смирись: ты ненормальный | Автор фото — мой отец.
Я встречал много людей, которым не нравится их работа. И когда я их спрашиваю, чем бы они занимались вместо неё, около 75% из них отвечают что-то вроде: «Хммм, не знаю. Я бы хотел открыть свою небольшую кофейню!» Если... |
| Jul 29, 2025 | Extraordinarily Renditioned Migrants Report Back From El Salvador’s Maximum Security Hellhole | President Trump wanted a war on Latin Americans and found an obliging partner in El Salvador, currently headed by President Nayib Bukele. Bukele has managed to bring down El Salvador’s homicide rate since he became president, but it’s more ... |
| Jun 22, 2025 | Opinion: James Foulds: Grok’s ‘white genocide’ responses show how generative AI can be weaponized | AI chatbots and AI alignment
AI chatbots are based on large language models, which are machine learning models for mimicking natural language. Pretrained large language models are trained on vast bodies of text, including books, academic pa... |
| Apr 9, 2025 | Guest opinion: Denise Fazio: We mustn’t sacrifice 60 years of progress on civil rights | In Colorado, most people vote by mail and are required to present an ID if voting in person; a photo isn’t required. (Mail-in ballots must be received by citizens’ County Clerks by 7:00 p.m., Election Day.) The Colorado DMV shares daily upd... |
| Jan 30, 2025 | National Politics | Trump was challenged after blaming DEI for the DC plane crash. Here’s what he said | Q: “Are you saying this crash was somehow caused as the result of diversity hiring? And what evidence have you seen to support these claims?”
TRUMP: “It just could have been. We have a high standard. We’ve had a much higher standard than an... |
| Jan 3, 2025 | Justin Wohl Joins Aditude as Vice President of Strategy | Aditude, a leading provider of cutting-edge, enterprise adtech solutions for publishers, announced the appointment of Justin Wohl as Vice President of Strategy. Wohl brings extensive experience in publisher monetization and a deep commitmen... |
| Aug 3, 2024 | Bridging the Digital Divide: The Role of Decentralized Infrastructure in AI and Misinformation | In the digital age, two critical challenges loom large: the growing demand for artificial intelligence (AI) resources and the rampant spread of misinformation. Both issues are intertwined, reflecting a landscape where access to technology a... |
| Jul 30, 2024 | Africa: Verifying Facts in the Age of AI - Librarians Offer 5 Strategies | The phenomenal growth in artificial intelligence tools has made it easy to create a story quickly, complicating a reader's ability to determine if a news source or article is truthful or reliable. For instance, earlier this year, people wer... |
| Jul 26, 2024 | The AI Dilemma: Navigating the Landscape of Innovation and Regulation**
** | ** The landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) is a wild frontier. It promises innovation, efficiency, and transformation. Yet, as the dust settles, the reality is stark. The AI boom is not the golden age many envisioned. Companies are st... |
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| Jun 19, 2024 | UNESCO Report Warns AI Could Be Used to Spread Misleading, False Claims on Holocaust | By Inno Flores
Published Jun 19, 2024 4:25AM EDT
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| Jun 12, 2024 | Commentary | Guest opinion: Tom Thomas: I’ve been wondering a lot lately. Do you wonder? | I was taught that the allocation of Senate seats by state was a compromise to protect smaller states. I wonder if it had as much to do with securing the ability of the southern states to block any attempts at abolition. I wonder if the Sena... |
| May 29, 2024 | Google Research Shows How AI-Powered Misinformation Spreads at Lightning Speed | By Aldohn Domingo
Published May 29, 2024 7:28AM EDT
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| Apr 19, 2024 | ‘Lol, No’ Is The Perfect Response To LAPD’s Nonsense ‘IP’ Threat Letter Over ‘Fuck The LAPD’ Shirt | We’ve had plenty of posts discussing all manner of behavior from the Los Angeles Police Dept. and/or the LAPD union here at Techdirt. As you might imagine if you’re a regular reader here, the majority of those posts haven’t exactly involved... |
| Mar 22, 2024 | CSIR moves to deal with digital election interference | Disinformation poses a serious threat to the upcoming South African election as it could manipulate public opinion and even influence the 29 May outcome, according to Zubeida Dawood, CSIR research group leader in cybersecurity.
At a CSIR me... |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Editorials | Editorial: Dig into discovering the truth this election cycle | For better or worse, we are now into another campaign season.
The political landscape has not been dulled since the last presidential election between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump and it’s not likely to get any better as voters shou... |
| Jan 11, 2024 | The Epstein story may not be the fantastical conspiracy of blackmail and murder that drew you in. But it is disgusting — and more common than you think. | Law The Epstein story may not be the fantastical conspiracy of blackmail and murder that drew you in. But it is disgusting — and more common than you think.
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| Oct 2, 2023 | Entertainment | What you can do for Banned Books Week 2023 | They weren’t burning the books. Yet.
After a video went viral this month showing two Missouri state senators torching a pile of boxes using flamethrowers, a clarification was issued that, no, they weren’t burning books. Apparently, the fire... |
| Aug 31, 2023 | 25 things you probably never knew about Walt Disney | Entertainment 25 things you probably never knew about Walt Disney
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| Aug 21, 2023 | Ted Cruz shares fake photo of a shark swimming on a flooded highway as Tropical Storm Hilary batters California: 'Holy crap' | Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas won his home state in the 2016 Republican presidential primary. Trump came in second place in that race. AP Photo/Alex Brandon
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| Jul 14, 2023 | The Truth Warriors ML’s Frontline Battle Against Fake News | In the age of information overload, it has become increasingly challenging to distinguish truth from falsehood. Fake news, which is false or misleading information presented as if it were true, poses a significant threat to society. It spre... |
| Jun 22, 2023 | Elon Musk speaks out over reports linking Starlink with the missing submersible by taking a dig at a fact-checking site | Elon Musk has broken his silence on reports that the firm behind Titan's submersible used Starlink.
In response to an updated fact-checking article, Musk tweeted: "You can't even run a good psy op."
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| Jun 21, 2023 | EV Motorcycle Startup Shows How Culture Drives Marketplace | RAJASTHAN, INDIA: Family of four on a motorcycle demonstrates minimally one of the previously unmet ... [+] cultural needs: additional passenger seating.getty |
| Jun 10, 2023 | Vintage photos show how deep sea diving and exploration has evolved over the years | A diver gets ready to search for treasure in Tobermory Bay in 1954. Bettmann/Getty
Exploring the world's oceans has been one of humankind's most difficult endeavours.
Over centuries, diving technology has developed from diving bells to clun... |
| May 25, 2023 | Africa: No, Hackers Can't Copy Your Contact List or Steal Banking Details Simply By Phoning You - Ignore Widely Shared Claim | IN SHORT: A message dating as far back as 2012 is once again circulating on Facebook and WhatsApp, warning the public not to answer or call back numbers with certain country codes. It claims this is how hackers are able to get your personal... |
| May 16, 2023 | What the Media Has Learned Since 2016—And What it Hasn’t | Leslie Moonves, then the CEO of CBS News, famously said in 2016 that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign “may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” It was hard not to think of Moonves’s comment during CNN’s disastrous live ... |
| May 12, 2023 | Elon Musk says Tucker Carlson will be subject to Twitter's fact-checking force, Community Notes. This might be a problem for a TV host whose record on Snopes isn't exactly the cleanest. | Tucker Carlson announced Tuesday that his show would be airing on Twitter.
Elon Musk responded by saying anything misleading would be flagged by community notes.
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| May 11, 2023 | Elon Musk says Tucker Carlson will be subject to Twitter's fact-checking force, Community Notes. This might be a problem for a TV host whose record on Snopes isn't exactly the cleanest. | Tucker Carlson announced on Wednesday that he'll be bringing his show to Twitter where he could be subject to fact-checking by the platform's Community Notes feature. Seth Wening and Gregory Bull/AP
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| May 4, 2023 | The life and death of a robot vacuum | I’m heading back to the South Bay next week, thanks to Google I/O, which is coming back to the Shoreline Amphitheater. I honestly don’t expect much of anything related to this beat, though AI is going to be all over that thing. That’s hardl... |
| May 1, 2023 | McDonald’s logo has sexy hidden meaning — and fans are shocked | More On: mcdonald's
Al Sharpton puts McDonald’s ‘on notice’ over alleged racial discrimination Hair, bugs, mold — the shocking truth behind what’s inside your favorite foods McDonald’s posts Q1 sales of nearly $6B on higher menu prices New ... |
| Apr 24, 2023 | DEA’s Fentanyl Narrative Clown Car Being Overseen By A ‘Reformer’ Who Replaced Old Corruption With Her Own Brand Of Corruption | The DEA has always been ridiculous when it comes to drugs. It overplays the downside, refuses to acknowledge any upside, and has been instrumental in ensuring people suffering from mental health issues are unable to access the drugs that mi... |
| Feb 6, 2023 | Докажи, если сможешь | Прежде чем начать, ответьте на вопрос. Это не обязательно, но вам будет гораздо интереснее читать один из блоков если вы сделаете это. Мария смотрит на Светлану, Светлана смотрит на Ирину. Мария в браке, Ирина — нет. Смотрит ли здесь кто-то... |
| Dec 22, 2022 | The year EVs outgrew Tesla | Critics have long dismissed electric vehicles as overly expensive, inconvenient, and unrealistic. But 2022 didn’t hear them. This year has seen record sales for EVs, and there is now billions in new federal funding designed to incentivize c... |
| Dec 11, 2022 | История револьверной двери: от ручного привода до магнитной левитации | Последнее время особое удовольствие доставляет мне изучение старых устройств, механизмов и патентов. Возможно, просто меняются интересы, а возможно как писал Ливий в прелюдии к своей Истории Рима: «Я нахожу древность полезным занятием хотя ... |
| Dec 10, 2022 | The brother of the ex-US Marine jailed in Russia slams Donald Trump for exploiting his imprisonment to attack President Biden | American detainee Paul Whelan holds a sign ahead of a hearing in Moscow. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
The brother of Paul Whelan, the ex-US Marine imprisoned in Russia, slammed Donald Trump.
Trump criticized the Biden administration for the priso... |
| Dec 3, 2022 | Дальше заголовка можно не читать | Растущий поток информации в интернете уже привел к тому, что все больше людей не читают новости дальше заголовка. Недавно в такую ловушку попал самый богатый человек планеты Илон Маск, владеющий состоянием в $180 млрд,— он перепостил в Twit... |
| Nov 22, 2022 | Trump faced a jury pool 'notorious' for huge damages before settling a lawsuit brought by protesters, experts say | Donald Trump arrives to a press event to announce his candidacy for the U.S. presidency at Trump Tower on June 16, 2015 in New York City. He made derogatory remarks about Mexicans. Christopher Gregory/Getty Images
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| Nov 16, 2022 | After decades of setbacks, scientists make strides toward the holy grail of male birth control | The headlines spelled the end of a short-lived scientific hope: “Male birth control study nixed after men can’t handle side effects women face daily,” USA Today announced. “Men Back Out of Male Birth Control Study Because They Couldn’t Hand... |
| Oct 24, 2022 | Почему электроника выгорает перед грозой | Многие слышали, что перед грозой лучше обесточивать электроприборы. Если вам довелось вынимать из системника материнку со сгоревшим сетевым портом, то этот запах запомнится навсегда.
Но в чём именно заключается причина выгорания, если гроза... |
| Oct 10, 2022 | Trump gave conflicting defenses about the Mar-a-Lago raid, claiming both that all the documents are 'mine,' and that some were planted | Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on October 9, 2022 in Mesa, Arizona. Mario Tama/Getty Images
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| Oct 7, 2022 | An old photo of Elon Musk and Ghislaine Maxwell was tagged with a note on Twitter saying there is 'no photo evidence that suggests they conversed' after a new 'context' feature rolled out | A photo of Elon Musk and Ghislaine Maxwell was tagged on Twitter with a context note.
It's part of a new Twitter feature rollout called Birdwatch intended to curb misinformation.
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| Oct 2, 2022 | Заблуждения программистов о почтовых адресах | У всех легковых автомобилей четыре колеса. Исключение из этого правила: Reliant Robin.
Если у автомобиля больше четырёх колёс, то это грузовик, автобус или вообще автопоезд. Исключение найдётся и здесь: Mercedes-AMG G 63 6x6.
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| Sep 21, 2022 | NyQuil chicken isn’t actually a TikTok trend | It’s about time that we learn the difference between what’s a viral trend and what’s just one person posting a meme that goes viral.
For the sake of humanity, let’s count our lucky stars: NyQuil chicken is not a real threat to public health... |
| Aug 25, 2022 | What To Do When The Changes Just Keep Coming | A human workplace creates a resilient workforce. getty |
| Aug 23, 2022 | Illinois high school students to receive media literacy instruction this year | When Illinois high schoolers go back to school this month, they'll have new coursework that lawmakers and Stanford researchers hope will prepare students to better detect misinformation and search for ulterior motives before trusting online... |
| Aug 12, 2022 | Elon Musk said his taxes are audited every year 'by default' — after posting a debunked Republican claim that the IRS is hiring 87,000 new agents | Elon Musk said on Twitter he has his taxes audited every year "by default."
He'd earlier posted a meme featuring a debunked Republican claim that the IRS is hiring 87,000 new agents.
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| Jul 20, 2022 | Omnipresent Fentanyl Copaganda Is Turning Normal Citizens Into Fainting Goats | For a few years now, uninformed police officials have been making America stupider by pushing the narrative that fentanyl is so dangerous, simply being near it is possibly fatal. Ignoring the fact that drugs must be ingested in some form to... |
| Apr 20, 2022 | Facebook is overrun with bizarre ads claiming Jeopardy! host Mayim Bialik is embroiled in scandal. It's actually an attempt to sell CBD gummies. | Facebook ads from various accounts claim to offer news of "allegations" against actress Mayim Bialik.
One account running such an advertisement told Insider the account was hacked.
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| Apr 5, 2022 | I know how the world ends, and it’s with a Twitter edit button | We survived four years of a Trump presidency, two years of a global pandemic, the ever-worsening impacts of climate change and the beginnings of a horrific war. But if you look outside, you’ll notice that (hopefully) nothing is on fire. Tha... |
| Feb 23, 2022 | As Russian Forces Roll into Eastern Ukraine, Putin Grabs Yet Another Prize: Ores And Energy | A view of the Chelyuskintsev Mine operated by the Donetsk Coal Energy Company. Viktor Drachev/TASS ... [+] (Photo by Viktor Drachev\TASS via Getty Images) TASS via Getty Images |
| Jan 13, 2022 | Bill Gates says he didn't expect to be subject of misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic | Bill Gates was interviewed on Twitter about the pandemic.
Gates said he had not expected to become the subject of COVID-19 misinformation.
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| Dec 1, 2021 | Everything we know about the persistent but unproven rumors that Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother | Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speaks Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Brooklyn Center, Minn., during a news conference at the site of the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright by a police officer during a traffic stop AP Photo/Morry Gash
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| Nov 30, 2021 | Everything we know about the persistent but unproven rumors that Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother | Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speaks Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Brooklyn Center, Minn., during a news conference at the site of the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright by a police officer during a traffic stop AP Photo/Morry Gash
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| Nov 30, 2021 | Dr. Oz is running for US Senate in Pennsylvania. Here are 8 times he’s made false or baseless medical claims. | Dr. Mehmet Oz attends a press conference in Istanbul, Turkey, July 2, 2019. Onur Coban/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Dr. Mehmet Oz, one of the US’ best-known celebrity doctors, is running for US Senate in Pennsylvania.
But his health reco... |
| Nov 24, 2021 | SEOHost.Net Principal: Meta Rebrand is a Band-aid At Best | Unfortunately, a shift in focus won't fix the fundamental internal problems underlying both platforms
ORLANDO, Fla. (PRWEB) November 24, 2021
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| Nov 11, 2021 | New Google Chrome Privacy Guide Offers More Control Over Your Settings: How Does It Work? | Griffin Davis , Tech Times 11 November 2021, 12:11 pm
Many experts currently criticize Google Chrome since it still has some negative data tracking activities that could leak your personal data.
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| Nov 6, 2021 | No, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla Was Not Arrested, Here’s How This Conspiracy Theory Emerged | A website called the Conservative Beaver claimed that Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla was arrested on ... [+] November 5 and that there was a "media blackout" of the event. But what's the evidence that this actually happened? (Photo by S... |
| Nov 2, 2021 | Latest Moral Panic: No, TikTok Probably Isn't Giving Teenage Girls Tourette Syndrome | If you recall, the U.S. spent much of 2020 freaking out about TikTok's threat to privacy, while oddly ignoring that the company's privacy practices are pretty much the international norm (and ignoring a whole lot of significantly worse onli... |
| Nov 2, 2021 | Latest Moral Panic: No, TikTok Probably Isn't Giving Teenage Girls Tourette Syndrome | If you recall, the U.S. spent much of 2020 freaking out about TikTok’s threat to privacy, while oddly ignoring that the company’s privacy practices are pretty much the international norm (and ignoring a whole lot of significantly worse onli... |
| Oct 15, 2021 | Conservatives take to social media to blame Biden for the supply chain crisis with #BareShelvesBiden, while others hit back with images of fully stocked stores | A grocery store shopper browses a limited supply of bread. ArtMarie/Getty Images
Conservatives are flocking to social media to blame President Biden for supply-chain issues using the hashtag #BareShelvesBiden.
In response, some users are de... |
| Oct 4, 2021 | This is how much Facebook’s outage is thought to have cost it | It wasn’t just Facebook’s reputation that took a massive hit on Monday after its site went down globally along with Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, which it also operates.
The company’s ad revenue was also affected during the u... |
| Aug 14, 2021 | The CEO of fact-checking site Snopes was caught plagiarizing dozens of articles | Snopes CEO and cofounder David Mikkelson plagiarized dozens of stories, BuzzFeed reports.
Mikkelson was also writing plagiarized Snopes content under a pseudonym: "Jeff Zarronandia."
He isn't stepping down as Snopes CEO, but did i... |
| Aug 13, 2021 | Snopes Busted to Plagiarize Articles Online Despite Being a Fact-Checking Website; CEO Has No Excuse | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 13 August 2021, 09:08 pm
Snopes was busted for plagiarizing several articles and content online, and this has benefitted its fact-checking website which was a hub that promised to uphold the truth. The CEO of Snop... |
| Aug 13, 2021 | The CEO of fact-checking site Snopes was caught plagiarizing dozens of articles | Snopes CEO and cofounder David Mikkelson plagiarized dozens of stories, BuzzFeed reports.
Mikkelson was also writing plagiarized Snopes content under a pseudonym: “Jeff Zarronandia.”
He isn’t stepping down as Snopes CEO, but did issue an ap... |
| Aug 13, 2021 | The CEO of fact-checking site Snopes was caught plagiarising dozens of articles | Snopes; Paige Leskin/Business Insider
Snopes CEO and cofounder David Mikkelson plagiarised dozens of stories, BuzzFeed reports.
Mikkelson was also writing plagiarised Snopes content under a pseudonym: "Jeff Zarronandia."
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| Aug 9, 2021 | The MAGA Icons Are Not OK, According to Vic Berger | The Trump campaign, while liquifying nearly half a country’s worth of brains, was also a startup incubator for many businesses—from podcasts to supplements to merch. But after Trump lost the 2020 election, many of these entrepreneurs, who p... |
| Aug 4, 2021 | I made the legendary $250 cookie recipe, and it definitely isn’t worth 25 years of hype | The myth of the $US250 ($AU338) cookie recipe started back in the 1990s. Paige Bennett for Insider
I tried making the famous “$US250 ($AU338)” Neiman Marcus cookie recipe to see if it’s worth all the hype.
The story behind the recipe isn’t ... |
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| Jul 19, 2021 | Joel Osteen’s taxes: What’s probably true and what isn’t | This April 24, 2010 file photo shows Lakewood Church pastor Joel Osteen at Dodger Stadium during his ‘A Night of Hope’ in Los Angeles. Associated Press/Richard Vogel
Famed megachurch pastor Joel Osteen sparked ire online over claims he does... |
| Jul 14, 2021 | Watch a viral video exploring an abandoned 1980s McDonald’s restaurant, complete with pink-and-blue decor and an old McFlurry machine | The TikTok video has more than 250,000 views. Getty
A 10-minute YouTube video shows the inside of an abandoned McDonald’s restaurant with 1980s decor.
It has a vivid pink-and-blue color scheme, and syrups still stored underneath its McFlurr... |
| Jul 9, 2021 | Section 230 Continues To Not Mean Whatever You Want It To | In the annals of Section 230 crackpottery, the "publisher or platform" canard reigns supreme. Like the worst (or perhaps best) game of "Broken Telephone" ever, it has morphed into a series of increasingly bizarre theorie... |
| Jul 9, 2021 | Section 230 Continues To Not Mean Whatever You Want It To | In the annals of Section 230 crackpottery, the “publisher or platform” canard reigns supreme. Like the worst (or perhaps best) game of “Broken Telephone” ever, it has morphed into a series of increasingly bizarre theories about a law that i... |
| Jul 7, 2021 | YouTube's secret algorithm continues to push misinformation on users, from false election fraud claims to conspiracy theories, according to a new study | YouTube's suggestion algorithm continues to promote videos with misinformation, according to a new study.
YouTube keeps the suggestion algorithm a secret, preventing researchers from studying how it works.
The study, commissioned by Firefox... |
| Jun 22, 2021 | This Week in Jobs Pittsburgh: Stay Cool | Hi! You’re reading the Pittsburgh edition of This Week in Jobs (TWIJ), a weekly newsletter written by our team at Technical.ly in partnership with InnovatePGH and the Pittsburgh Innovation District. Each week we put together for you a slate... |
| Jun 1, 2021 | Michael Flynn’s coup comments show how QAnon is evolving in the Biden era | While speaking at a Dallas conference aimed at QAnon adherents on Sunday, former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn appeared to endorse the idea of a military coup to reinstate Donald Trump as president. A member of the audience ... |
| May 10, 2021 | Why Are We Still Blaming Technology For Our Failure To Raise Our Children Properly? | IMAGE:getty |
| Apr 12, 2021 | Big pharma, SSRIs, and mass shootings | An Iinvestigation of the uncomfortable relationship amongst the three
Mass shootings have become as synonymous with America as baseball, cheeseburgers, and Hollywood. The U.S. had 31% of public mass shootings from 1966-2012. Unfortunately, ... |
| Mar 19, 2021 | Postal Service finds 'no evidence' of Project Veritas' claim that mail workers tampered with ballots in the 2020 election | James O'Keefe, President of Project Veritas, in February. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
The Postal Service released a report into claims that employees tampered with Pennsylvania ballots.
They found "no evidence" for the accusations, fi... |
| Mar 18, 2021 | Postal Service finds ‘no evidence’ of Project Veritas’ claim that mail workers tampered with ballots in the 2020 election | James O’Keefe, President of Project Veritas, in February. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
The Postal Service released a report into claims that employees tampered with Pennsylvania ballots.
They found “no evidence” for the accusations, first brough... |
| Mar 17, 2021 | Cardi B and Candace Owens sparred on Twitter after the ‘WAP’ Grammys performance, and both women threatened lawsuits | Cardi B and Candace Owens. Kevin Winter/Getty Images (left) and Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP/Getty Images (right)
Cardi B and Candace Owens had a Twitter feud after the conservative pundit criticized “WAP.”
The feud began after Owens talked about th... |
| Mar 2, 2021 | The 13,000 Wind Turbines In Texas Can Be Winterized, But Should They? | Bill Montgomery, UH Energy Scholar |
| Feb 25, 2021 | The wildest 5G conspiracy theories explained — and debunked | What is 5G? It will take some time before it truly impacts our lives, but the next-gen mobile network is here whether people are ready for it or not. Carriers have deployed their nationwide 5G network coverage, and are in the middle of expa... |
| Feb 24, 2021 | Here’s what Trump’s tax returns could mean for the investigations into his finances | Donald Trump in his Trump Tower office in 2012. Diane Bondareff/Invision/AP
The Supreme Court has paved the way for the Manhattan DA to get Donald Trump’s tax returns.
A former Trump Organization executive and Trump’s personal lawyer told C... |
| Feb 23, 2021 | Law Enforcement, Social Media Users Turn An Act Of Kindness Into A Human Trafficking Investigation | With enough self-delusion, any act of humanity can be considered a criminal act. It works for cops. It also works for the general public. When you’re a suspicious busybody with an overactive imagination and too much time on your hands, you ... |
| Feb 23, 2021 | Law Enforcement, Social Media Users Turn An Act Of Kindness Into A Human Trafficking Investigation | With enough self-delusion, any act of humanity can be considered a criminal act. It works for cops. It also works for the general public. When you're a suspicious busybody with an overactive imagination and too much time on your hands, you ... |
| Feb 15, 2021 | Four Powerful Artworks Across Indianapolis Share American Experience, Black Experience In America, With Newfields Continuing To Center White Audiences | Joshua Bleecker, 'Elijah McClain,' (2020). Acrylic on Canvas.Chadd Scott |
| Feb 3, 2021 | Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s history of spreading bizarre conspiracy theories, from space lasers to Frazzledrip | In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., sits in the House Chamber after they reconvened for arguments over the objection of certifying Arizona’s Electoral College votes in November’s election, at the Capitol in... |
| Jan 19, 2021 | Empty PS5 Box on eBay Reportedly Sold for Over $1K; Site Offers Money Back Guarantee to Scammed Buyers | Nikki A. , Tech Times 19 January 2021, 01:01 am
Recently, reports have risen about users selling empty PlayStation 5 Boxes for a significant sum of money. As Video Games Chronicle reports, Auction Site Ebay has been targeting these users wh... |
| Jan 19, 2021 | Disqualifying Insurrectionists and Rebels: A How-To Guide | In recent days, several scholars and lawmakers have suggested that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment might be used to bar Donald Trump and some of his allies from ever holding federal or state office again. The Section 3 route is a plausible ... |
| Jan 10, 2021 | The notorious Alabama man who parked a pickup truck packed with bombs and guns near the US Capitol likely intended to violently attack elected officials, feds say | An unidentified man holds a water bottle to his face as Trump supporters clash with police and security forces in DC. JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images
Lonnie Leroy Coffman, 70, was arrested in DC when officers found several guns, magazi... |
| Jan 7, 2021 | TikTok bans videos of Trump inciting mob, blocks #stormthecapital and other hashtags | For obvious reasons, Trump doesn’t have a TikTok account. But the president’s speeches that helped incite the mob who yesterday stormed the U.S. Capitol will have no home on TikTok’s platform. The company confirmed to TechCrunch its content... |
| Dec 4, 2020 | Facebook: No, COVID-19 Vaccines Won't Require You to Get Microchipped | December 4, 2020 2 min read This story originally appeared on PCMag
Facebook is preparing to remove misinformation about upcoming COVID-19 vaccines, including conspiracy theories that claim the treatments will require people to get microchi... |
| Dec 2, 2020 | Content Moderation Case Study: Reclaiming A Hashtag (2020) | Summary: The Proud Boys, a group with a history of violent interactions, often in support of Donald Trump, received prominent attention during the first Presidential debate of 2020 between Trump and Joe Biden. Upon being asked about whether... |
