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Because memes, unlike gains, are forever. As members of the r/wallstreetbets subreddit continued their ongoing battle with short selling hedge funds Wednesday, driving the price of GameStop (and theater chain AMC) even higher in the process, the rest of the internet did what it does best: made memes. And oh, what glorious memes they are.…
There are fewer and fewer places for sex workers, sex educators, and adult content creators to find a home online. Lips, a new social network geared towards free sexual expression, aims to provide that space. Founder Annie Brown and her team want users — sex workers, erotic artists, queer people, activists, and more — to…
Your social platforms might have less fodder for Saturday Night Live sketches after removing the remaining Trump family-members-turned-political-leaders from your follows, but the new administration includes a fresh cast of characters. President Joe Biden has a host of grandkids, and two dogs. Vice President Kamala Harris is married to the country’s first Second Gentleman, who…
Italian regulators turned their eyes toward TikTok this week following the tragic death of a 10-year-old girl. On Thursday, the Italian Data Protection Authority (GPDP) ordered makers of the popular social media app to stop processing the data of any user within the country “whose age could not be established with full certainty.” This move…
In his inaugural address, President Joe Biden promised to be honest with the American people. “There is truth and there are lies, lies told for power and for profit,” he said, later adding, “I give you my word, I will always level with you.” After four years of lies big and small, restoring trust is…
After what feels like 425 tearful, anxiety-ridden, brain worms-filled decades (but has somehow only been four years?) the big day has finally arrived: You can now free your social media timelines from all traces of Donald Trump and his family. Come noon on Jan. 20, Joe Biden’s inauguration day, Trump will no longer be president…
WhatsApp has caused quite a bit of commotion with a planned update to its privacy policy, which spooked users as it added more detail on how Facebook and third party businesses can use and interact with user data on the platform. Now, amid user backlash, the company has announced the new policy will go into…
You can make your timeline a whole lot cleaner. Twitter reminded users Monday that it solved the age-old problem of otherwise valuable accounts constantly retweeting trash into your timeline. That would be “turn off retweets,” the setting which lets you see all of someone’s tweets and none of their retweets. “If you like an account’s…
Normally when a social network updates its terms of service, barely anyone notices. But that’s not the case with Instagram’s newest Terms of Use, which have caused quite an uproar among sex workers online. The issue that’s drawing notice is the platform’s Community Guidelines. They require adherence to Facebook’s Sexual Solicitation rules, which is not…