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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.AP Photo/Ben Margot Digital Content Next (DCN), a US trade body that represents premium online publishers, has sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, calling on the two companies to do more to tackle the fake news being discovered and shared across their sites. The letter,…
LONDON — When President-elect Donald J. Trump met with the British politician Nigel Farage in recent days, he encouraged Mr. Farage and his entourage to oppose the kind of offshore wind farms that Mr. Trump believes will mar the pristine view from one of his two Scottish golf courses, according to one person present. The meeting, held shortly after the…
Donald Trump’s nominee for US attorney general has been accused of bringing criminal prosecutions against a pair of black officials in Alabama as retaliation for their roles in derailing his nomination to be a judge. The officials faced federal corruption charges in the southern district of Alabama, where Jeff Sessions was the top federal prosecutor,…
When Donald Trump won the White House 12 days ago, there was a very common sentiment expressed along the east and west coasts of the country: How? After all, no one they knew had voted for Trump. In fact, he was a punchline for jokes to many of them. In a race between Trump and…
“Save the Rebellion, Save the Dream!” Dammit, Rogue One, I’ve got a little something in my eye. As we near the premiere of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, it’s clear the filmmakers have moved from the angsty rebellion angle (“This is a rebellion, isn’t it? I rebel.”) into one that focuses more on the…
Bee Movie is an hour and 35 minutes long, but now you can watch the whole thing in a little over seven minutes. This is thanks to Avoid At All Costs, a YouTuber devoted to remixing Jerry Seinfeld’s cult classic. Here’s a fun game. Every time someone says the word “bee”—which happens 172 times throughout…
Photo: Getty On Monday, a woman identifying herself as a former writer for Facebook’s trending section took to Twitter to criticize the social media giant, saying the solution to the site’s current fake news problem is the editorial team it fired with “no grace, no notice, no care” earlier this year. “As a…
GIF The music of Eminem is extremely good, but do you know what’s better? Watching videos of people performing his songs in American Sign Language. These videos perfectly encapsulate the edginess of Eminem’s musical genius, while conveying important information to the hearing-impaired. This is the magic of YouTube. People confidently doing weird shit. I’m inspired….
People are mostly shocked by this ‘Hail Trump’ video Image: Screengrab/the atlantic By Gianluca Mezzofiore2016-11-22 11:54:44 UTC A video published on The Atlantic that shows Richard B. Spencer — founder and ideologue of the “alt-right” movement — shouting “Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory” has caused heated reaction on social media. Spencer’s salute to…
A planned meeting between president-elect Donald J. Trump and The New York Times appears to have fallen through, with Mr. Trump declaring on Twitter on Tuesday morning that he had canceled the gathering because the ground rules had been changed. A spokeswoman for The Times responded that the paper had not changed the arrangements for the meeting…