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Grindr’s Founder Hates Your Headless Torso Pic
Joel Simkhai revolutionised gay dating. Now he’s trying to do it again by cutting against the culture created by his success.
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YouTube Nearly Pulled Its Most Profitable Ads Over Freaky Elsagate Kids’ Vids, Book Says
YouTube was on the precipice of cutting all of its most profitable ads amid fallout from Elsagate, the most bizarre scandal in the history of the biggest video-sharing site on the internet. It’s a silly name, but it hearkens to a time when thousands of disturbing algorithm-driven videos starring popular children’s characters flooded the sections…
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Oopsies: Facebook Boosted Bad Posts for Six Months Because of a News Feed Bug
A “massive ranking failure” in the Facebook News Feed promoted content it pegged as bad for the past six months. The flaw in the News Feed’s ranking algorithm elevated misinformation, violence, and the Russian state media outlets Facebook pledged to downrank in response to President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine to more than a billion…