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Discord Buys AI Company To Combat A Big Problem: Harassment
It wasn’t all that long ago that Discord housed some of the internet’s most noxious groups, including white supremacist communities like The Daily Stormer. Since the Charlottesville rally in 2017, however, the chat platform has worked toward slowly but surely cleaning up the mess. But as Discord has grown, so too has the risk of…
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Bots Reportedly Helped Fuel GameStonks Hype on Facebook, Twitter, and Other Platforms
The s0-called GameStonks saga had some help from automated bots hyping up “meme” stocks on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, according to an analysis by the cybersecurity firm PiiQ Media reviewed by Reuters.
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The Internet Reacts To Destiny 2’s Slowly Exploding Spaceship
Today thousands of gamers around the world met in Destiny 2 and then spent like a solid hour waiting and waiting and waiting for the game’s first big live event. Eventually, something happened.
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How To Infiltrate Area 51 Like A Pro
Amid renewed interest in UFOs following a series of articles detailing strange sightings by U.S. military pilots — and recognitions of those concerns by the Navy — over 1.2 million have signed up for a “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us” Facebook event slated for September 20, 2019. Attendees are asked to…