Tag: Tech
These Two College Friends Are Agents For Meme NFTs
YouTube and TikTok An NFT auction on the platform OpenSea for three viral memes. On Sunday night, the auction hammer will come down on NFTs for three viral memes: the Numa Numa Dance, Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger, and Two Pretty Best Friends. Over the last few months, several well-known memes…
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Facebook Will Ban Trump For The Next Two Years
Facebook announced Friday that former president Donald Trump will be suspended for two years after his Facebook and Instagram accounts made posts that praised the violent insurrection at the US Capitol that sought to overturn his loss in the presidential election. “Given the gravity of the circumstances that led to…
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The Pandemic Has Left Us With A Lingering Trauma About Money
The disastrous COVID pandemic of 2020 and 2021 has changed every part of our lives. The way we make, spend, invest, save, and waste our money will be different forever. During the Great Depression, the sudden financial crisis wiped out both people’s savings and their trust in banks. It led…
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After We Found Biden’s Account, Venmo Will Let You Make Your Friend List Private
Venmo, the mobile payments app owned by PayPal, is changing its privacy settings after a BuzzFeed News story uncovered President Joe Biden’s account earlier this month. The move would allow people to make their friend lists private or restrict who can see them, adding a privacy feature to an app…
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Facebook Is Resuming Political Contributions — But Not To Lawmakers Who Voted Against Certifying The US Election
Facebook is resuming contributions through its political action committee but will not give money to any members of Congress who voted against certifying the 2020 US election, the company notified employees on Thursday. In an internal announcement, Brian Rice, a public policy director at Facebook, said that the decision came…
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Facebook Employees Are Accusing Their Own Company Of Bias Against Arabs And Muslims
BuzzFeed News / Getty Images Earlier this month, a Facebook software engineer from Egypt wrote an open note to his colleagues with a warning: “Facebook is losing trust among Arab users.” Facebook had been a “tremendous help” for activists who used it to communicate during the Arab Spring of 2011,…
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