Russian information troll farm the Internert Research Agency spent just 0.05% as much on Facebook ads as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s campaigns combined in the run up to the 2016 US presidential election. Clinton and Trump spent $81 million, while the IRA spent $46,000. Facebook general counsel Colin Stretch revealed these figures today during the Senate Intelligence… Read More
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120K Instagrams by Russian election attackers hit 20M Americans
Facebook detailed the extent of Russia’s election interference campaign on Instagram today during its second congressional hearing. Facebook general counsel Colin Stretch said that 120,000 posts by Russian election attackers reached 16 million Americans from October through the election, and the posts reached an additional 4 million Americans prior to October. That’s on top of the… Read More
Owner collects her sick dog’s best moments to celebrate his life
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Losing a pet is a painful thing, and many of us can empathise with that pain.
One Twitter user has chosen to celebrate her dog’s life by sharing some of his best moments in memoriam. (Hope you have tissues at the ready…)
Hello everyone my dog has cancer and doesn’t have very long left so I’m going to share with you his best moments if u don’t mind x
— amy (@catholicgirl666) October 29, 2017
1. The happiest dog in the whole world. Chilled vibes pic.twitter.com/uuVRKGIZqK
— amy (@catholicgirl666) October 29, 2017
2. Whenever anyone comes to the house he’ll bring them a present. This day was his bath towel. Too cute pic.twitter.com/gs0yWkeGxy
— amy (@catholicgirl666) October 30, 2017 Read more…
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Here’s how does a word get into the dictionary
We interviewed someone who compiles dictionaries and found out that there may be a lot more than you think when it comes to how a word makes its way into the dictionary.
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J.K. Rowling just tore apart Donald Trump Jr.’s tweet about socialism
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If your name’s Donald Trump Jr. and you start tweeting about socialism, it’s not going to go unnoticed.
On Halloween night, the president’s eldest son decided to use his daughter to make a political point.
Here’s the original, now widely-mocked tweet:
I’m going to take half of Chloe’s candy tonight & give it to some kid who sat at home. It’s never to early to teach her about socialismpic.twitter.com/3ie9C0jv2G
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) October 31, 2017
A lot of people, like historian and author Kevin M. Kruse, pointed out the big flaw in Trump Jr.’s logic. Read more…
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J.K. Rowling just tore apart Donald Trump Jr.’s tweet about socialism
If your name’s Donald Trump Jr. and you start tweeting about socialism, it’s not going to go unnoticed.
On Halloween night, the president’s eldest son decided to use his daughter to make a political point.
Here’s the original, now widely-mocked tweet:
I’m going to take half of Chloe’s candy tonight & give it to some kid who sat at home. It’s never to early to teach her about socialismpic.twitter.com/3ie9C0jv2G
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) October 31, 2017
A lot of people, like historian and author Kevin M. Kruse, pointed out the big flaw in Trump Jr.’s logic. Read more…
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In their first Russia hearing, tech giants try to placate Congress (with mixed results)
On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee kicked off the first of three hearings this week examining the relationship between social media and Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The hearings mark the first time that lawmakers will hear testimony from Google, Facebook and Twitter around how their platforms were and are manipulated as part of Russian political… Read More
‘Your power scares me’ senator tells Facebook during first hearing on 2016 election
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Senator reveals an anti-Hillary Facebook ad bought by Russia
Facebook said it won’t disclose the 3,000 ads Russia-linked accounts bought on the platform during the 2016 election. But U.S. senators have them, and they will.
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Congress grills Facebook, Twitter, Google on shells hiding election meddlers
How can Internet giants know that innocent-seeming US companies aren’t actually shell vehicles for malicious foreign actors to buy ads to interfere with elections? The short answer is they can’t, and that drew questioning from a congressional probe today into Facebook, Twitter, and Google being used to manipulate the 2016 presidential election. The hearing saw Facebook’s… Read More
Leave it to Ryan Reynolds to give horrible ‘Deadpool’ Halloween costume advice
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Ryan Reynolds is a pure savage on Twitter and he enjoys every minute of it.
When a mother asked him how how her son can use the bathroom in his Deadpool costume, Reynolds was all to eager to answer.
Of course, the actor did it in the most Deadpool way possible.
My son is ready for Halloween @VancityReynolds. No idea how he is supposed to use the washroom. Any tips Ryan?!! pic.twitter.com/2Z6rEAIvNE
— monique tamminga (@LTnewshound) October 30, 2017
Everybody knows the Deadpool suit is also a toilet. Get it togetherhttps://t.co/WBZUGaLFWt
— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) October 31, 2017 Read more…
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Sean Hannity had a perfect Freudian slip while talking about Hilary Clinton
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After discounting Manafort’s indictment as irrelevant and shrugging off Papadopoulos’ guilty plea with an “everybody makes mistakes” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, Fox News host Sean Hannity turned to the person whose crimes he thought investigators should be focusing on: President Hillary Clinton.
But his call out of Clinton didn’t necessarily go as planned…
.@seanhannity on Manafort indictment: “Is this all Mueller has? Because if it is, it’s pathetic.” #Hannity https://t.co/RW3GsNSXP3 pic.twitter.com/pXNOGVlsd9
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 31, 2017
Yep, he called Hillary Clinton the President on air. (If you care to listen to Hannity’s dulcet tones, the President Clinton slip comes in around 3:20.) Read more…
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