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Texas GOP’s voting meme shows how Trump-style messaging wins internet’s attention

Former U.S. President Donald Trump's new social media app is set to be launched on February 21, according to Apple's app store list.

Goodbye Riley MacLeod, We Never Deserved You Share Filed to:alan henry Screenshot: Hinterland Games When Riley Macleod told me he was quitting the first thing he said was, “I’m sorry.” The second was, “Please roast me.” So I came out of roast retirement to make Riley’s final wish come true. He started at Kotaku as managing editor back in 2016 and has worn just about every hat you could at the site since, sometimes in an official capacity, but more often not. If Kotaku were the Sn...

What should we do about the algorithmic amplification of disinformation? The results of the 2020 presidential election. The alleged dangers of the COVID vaccine. Disinformation continues to have a significant effect on almost every aspect of our lives, and some of the biggest sources of disinformation are the social platforms that we spend a large part of our lives using—Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. On these platforms, conspiracy theories and hoaxes are distributed at close to the speed of ...

7 Ways to Work Out With Limited Equipment Lifehacker 3/2/2021 © Photo: antoniodiaz (Shutterstock) person exercising at home on a yoga mat with small dumbbells Home workouts are still a great, safe option in this ongoing pandemic, but not everybody has been able to put together a full featured home gym. Even if you only have a few dumbbells or a set of resistance bands—or nothing at all—there’s a workout out there for you. Here are some of our best ideas, based on what you have availa...

FRIENDS of an inspirational Wirral nurse recovering from a brain aneurysm that left her in a coma are taking part in a walk to raise funds for…

PLANS to build a coal mine in Cumbria have caught the attention of one of the worlds leading climate change experts. In a letter to Brois Johnson, ex-NASA scientist James Hansen said that failure to stop the mine from going ahead at Whitehaven would be in "contemptuous disregard" for the future of young people and nature. The new facility, which will be used to extract coking coal for steel production, has been granted planning permission by Cumbria County Council. The Government said i...

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Trumps election lies were among his most popular tweets CNBC 1/13/2021 Nate Rattner A CNBC analysis of President Trumps tweets since he was inaugurated found that his most popular and frequent posts largely spread disinformation and distrust. Of Trumps 10 most popular tweets, four contained false claims related to the 2020 election results. Of his 100 most popular posts, 36 contained election-related falsehoods.  Following the U.S. Capitol riot, Twitter permanently banned Pre...

Russia today and sputnik. nbcs jo ling kent has more. >> reporter: sam woolley has been tracking how bots influenced the 2016 election. >> so-called fake news can have real world consequences. >> fake news, its fake. >> reporter: bots are fake automated social media little that can post, retweet, like and share thousands of times foster than a real person. >> politicians, journalists, people that really spread and make news were actually sharing bot content online. they were sharing fake stories...