The News Desk
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A strange 'pig couch' scam keeps popping up on Craigslist
A Craigslist post advertising a “unique pig couch” for $250 has been causing a frenzy on Twitter. But it looks like someone's telling porkies...
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Aimee Pearcy
, written on From the News desk
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Twitter restricted the New York Post in the same way as BlueLeaks
Today, the New York Post published an article that claimed to have obtained videos and emails from a laptop allegedly belonging to Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. The leaker is President Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
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Aimee Pearcy
, written on From the News desk
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Facebook will halt political ads...after the polls close
For the past few weeks, Facebook has been seriously struggling to get the balance right between raking in advertising dollars, and not warping the outcome of the entire 2020 U.S. election.
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Aimee Pearcy
, written on From the News desk
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Big Tech responds to “oil barons and railroad tycoons” comparisons by House Democrats
Last night, House Democrats dropped a juicy 449-page document. The long-awaited report, which compared Big Tech to “oil barons and railroad tycoons,” was packed with evidence collected over the past 16 months that was designed to prove the companies held "monopoly power".
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Aimee Pearcy
, written on From the News desk
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Facebook just said it will ban QAnon
Facebook has gained a reputation for drastically failing to crack down on the spread of fake news, and has been receiving a mounting number of pleas from exhausted users to do something about it.
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Aimee Pearcy
, written on From the News desk
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It turns out 26% of US adults get their news from YouTube
According to a new study from Pew Research Center, 26% of US adults say they get their news from watching YouTube.
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Aimee Pearcy
, written on From the News desk
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With support from the police, Uber gets its London license renewed
In November last year, Transport for London (TfL) took away Uber’s license for a second time after it was “found to be not fit and proper to hold a private hire operator licence”. Apparently now it's suddenly "fit and proper" again.
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Aimee Pearcy
, written on From the News desk
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Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix banned from running companies for 7 years
Cambridge Analytica boss Alexander Nix has been banned from running or serving as a director of limited companies in Britain for 7 years, effective from 5 October 2020.
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Aimee Pearcy
, written on From the News desk
