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Reporter used spit to fix hair and Twitter can’t handle it

sudshr47 March 23, 2019

Pity the remote reporter who has no control when the feed goes live and catches him or her in a vulnerable moment.

This happened to NBC’s Matt Bradley who was broadcasting a live spot from Syria about the fight against ISIS. When the feed switched over, unbeknownst to Bradley, viewers got a full dose of the reporter using his spit to fix his hair.

Oh man, poor Bradley. Plenty of us have done something similar before in a moment of desperation but we weren’t caught doing it on national cable television. Sure enough, Twitter responded to video of the moment with shock.

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— Scooter Phoenix (@ScooterPhoenix) March 22, 2019 Read more…

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Facebook doubles the amount of terrorism content scrubbed from its platform

sudshr47 April 24, 2018

Facebook actually stopped harmful content from spreading.

The company said in a press release Monday that it removed or added a content warning to 1.9 million pieces of “ISIS and al-Qaeda” content in January through March — twice the amount it removed in the previous three months.

Supposedly, 99 percent of that content was removed because Facebook’s technology and employees found it, not because users reported it.

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Man gets arrested after he dresses up as ‘suicide bomber’ for Halloween

sudshr47 November 8, 2017

One man’s ill-advised Halloween outfit idea has landed him in trouble with the authorities in Malaysia.

Police said they arrested the unnamed man on Tuesday, after a startled resident ran into the man in an apartment building’s elevator, while the latter was dressed as a “suicide bomber.”

His outfit, which he claimed was for a Halloween party, included a chequered head dress, a fake beard, and a mock “bomb” made of cardboard, wires and empty water bottles.

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