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Draymond Green.(Photo: Thomas Shea, USA TODAY Sports) HOUSTON – Draymond Green says he accidentally posted a graphic crotch shot on his Snapchat account, the latest misstep for the Golden State Warriors’ All-Star forward. Green initially wrote on Twitter that his account had been hacked after the photo was posted Sunday, but later said the mistake…
[This is a joint post with Grant Storey, a Princeton undergraduate who is working with me on a tool to help users understand Facebook’s targeted advertising.] Facebook announced two days ago that it would make its ads indistinguishable from regular posts, and hence impossible to block. But within hours, the developers of Adblock Plus released an…
Peter Thiel is a billionaire who decided he didn’t like Gawker Media after it outed him as gay. So he funded Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against the company, and they won. Now Gawker is selling itself in a bankruptcy auction. On the same day that bids for Gawker are due, Thiel published an op-ed in the…
Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images On the eve of Gawker Media’s sale to … somebody, the author of its bankruptcy, Facebook billionaire Peter Thiel, was graciously given op-ed space in the New York Times to lay out his case against the blog network. Thiel, who funded the Hulk Hogan lawsuit that brought Gawker to the point…
Screengrab via YouTube Steven Universe storyboard artist Lauren Zuke has left Twitter and deleted her account after days of harassment from an aggressive subsection of Steven Universe fans. “I decided I don’t want to be accessible to thousands of people who think because I work on a TV show that I owe them myself all…
Normani Kordei, a member of the girl group on the rise Fifth Harmony, sat for a lighthearted Facebook Live interview earlier this month. Within a week, she had been chased off Twitter by a mob spewing racist insults. “I’ve not just been cyber bullied, I’ve been racially cyber bullied with tweets and pictures so horrific and racially…
Dear Boss, I have a conundrum. A co-worker of mine has said some pretty awful things on social media, and I don’t know what, if anything, to do about it. I work with this person occasionally. When I was new and had to ask him a few questions about a project, I googled him to…
Photo from here. I’m no fan of startup jargon—there’s a very thin line between innovation and bullshit—but there’s one term I’m a big fan of: “achieving failure.” It’s from Lean Startup, and essentially, it means spending a lot of time and money to perfectly execute something that it turns out nobody wants. If you want…
If you do a search for “Disney VHS” on eBay, you’ll find plenty of 1990s Disney movies to choose from. You’ll also notice something strange: a lot of people are asking for a ton of money. Literally hundreds of people are asking for more than $1,000 per tape for everything from Beauty and the Beast…
Weird Facebook exists as a celebration of the bizarre world of dank memes. What’s hidden behind the scenes, however, is weirder than any image macro brought to life. A few days after Daily Dot readers came to know the saga of the Where my shrimps Facebook page turning from crustacean meme kingdom to clickbait wasteland, the narrative…