YouTube Issues Mea Culpa After Conspiracy Video Tops ‘Trending’ List

The video in question, which suggested that a high school student who survived the shooting was a paid actor, was for a period of time the top video on YouTube’s “trending” videos page.

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VR Startup For Broadcasters Raises Another $10 Million

A virtual reality company that focuses on streaming experiences just raised almost $10 million, brining its total raised past $23 million. The experiences created are for broadcasters, including
Sky and Fox Sports.

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Disney’s ‘Black Panther’ Spends $37 Million On National TV Ads

The Marvel-produced movie earned a massive $235 million in U.S. box office revenues over the holiday weekend, making “Black Panther” the fifth movie to debut earning more than $200 million for its
opening weekend.

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The Big Loophole That Helped Russia Exploit Facebook: Doctored Photos

This use of doctored images was a crucial and deceptively simple technique to spread fabricated information during the 2016 election. Tech companies, which are increasingly under fire, struggle to screen for indications photos might have been distorted or taken out of context.

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Scottish Soda Irn-Bru (Sort of) Apologizes for Ads Calling Women ‘Can’ts’

Scotland’s iconic and notoriously cheeky Irn-Bru soda brand is back with a new ad campaign, and the response is probably exactly what the marketer was hoping for. Two new ads created for the Scottish market by agency Leith feature men urging women “Don’t be a can’t,” with the not-so-subtle wordplay making the copy sound like…

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The Chemical Brothers Entice Music-Lovers to Spiral Down the Rabbit Hole in Trippy Ad for London’s O2 Arena

It’s the age-old hippie debate: Do we follow the rabbit down the hole? In an energetic new ad from agency VCCP, London’s O2 arena entices hipsters to get out of their flats, as the Brits say, and take that trip. As The Chemical Brothers’ “EML Ritual” thumps incessantly in the background, our heroes follow not…

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This Incredible Instagram Account Shows What Life Is Like as a Visually Impaired Paralympic Skier

You may have imagined what it would be like to be an Olympic athlete, maybe you’re into skiing so you’ve imagined skiing down steep mountains with sharp curves at incredibly fast speeds. But have you ever thought about what it would be like to ski down those same slopes, at over 60 miles per hour,…

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Tesla Begins Taking Model 3 Orders

Tesla for the first time is notifying some reservation holders new to the electric-car brand that they can begin configuring and ordering their Model 3 sedan.

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Twitter Is Taking Steps to Reduce the Effectiveness of Bots

Developers of bots that enable simultaneous tweets, retweets, likes or follows will have to go back to the drawing board before March 23. Twitter announced last month that it would be “limiting the ability of users to perform coordinated actions across multiple accounts in TweetDeck and via the Twitter API [application-programming interface],” and Yoel Roth,…

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Can Social Media Be Trusted Anymore?

At what point do Facebook and Twitter become more harmful to society than helpful? If you think they can eliminate fake posts, you are as delusional as that fruitcake in the White House. Seeing
something online that appeals to your own worldview is not “further proof” you are right; it is only something to be highly suspect of.

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