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‘Killed It:’ Elon Backtracks From ‘Official’ Twitter Badges Hours After Rollout
Alright folks, buckle up, your brain is about to hurt.
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Zuck’s New VR Avatar Still Looks Bootleg (But it Has Legs)
“Legs,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg exclaimed during his 2022 Meta Connect keynote. The camera zooms back to show his Horizon World avatar standing, actually standing. Truly, it’s a new era.
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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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Inside TikTok’s Attempts to ‘Downplay the China Association’
Leaked documents detail what TikTok tells the media (and what it doesn’t).