November 7, 2026

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Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald Claims Twitter Troll Gave Him Seizure, Taking Social Media Hiatus | Mediaite

Alex Griswold05 mins

Byline Unit /33173478/Mediaite_Adsense_468x60 end post-heading In a bizarre twist in the aftermath of Newsweek reporter Kurt Eichenwald‘s highly contentious interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, Eichenwald announced that he was taking a break from Twitter after a troll caused him to have a seizure. Eichenwald posted over fifty angry and generally incoherent tweets in the aftermath of the interview,…

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Facebook (FB) could face €500,000 fines for each fake news post in Germany — Quartz

Mike Murphy03 mins

Earlier this week, Facebook said that it would be partnering with fact-checking sites like Snopes to help weed out the fake news that has been plaguing the site in recent years. But it seems that Germany is not confident that self-regulation will be enough. The chairman of Germany’s Social Democratic Party, Thomas Oppermann, has suggested…

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Reductress » ‘I Can’t Believe The Country Is So Racist,’ Reports Employee of All-White Start-up

Rekha Shankar04 mins

Kenzie Williams, an employee at the all-white tech startup Hack’d, was shocked to discover just how racist the country still was after the 2016 presidential election. “It’s amazing to me that people could be so ignorant,” Williams states, pouring herself coffee in the all-white office break room of the Oakland office. “I just thought we…

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ALT.HATE

Clay Shirky018 mins

As the American public is being sold on the idea of the “Infobahn,” it is often suggested that the Internet is ushering in an age of enlightenment, that its structure is inherently leading to a kind of global consciousness raising. In particular, it was (and still is, in some circles) fashionable to suggest that the…

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Parse.ly Network Referrer Dashboard | Parse.ly

Parse.ly02 mins

About the Parse.ly Network Referrer Dashboard Digital publishers rely heavily on external sources (social shares, search platforms, links from other sites, etc.) for their incoming traffic. That’s why it is so important for them to be aware of industry trends and shifts in traffic. Updated continually, Parse.ly’s Network Referrer Dashboard provides insight into referral traffic…

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Facebook now flags and down-ranks fake news with help from outside fact checkers | TechCrunch

Josh Constine08 mins

Begin: WordPress Article Content Snopes, FactCheck.org, Politifact, and ABC News will help Facebook make good on four of the six promises Mark Zuckerberg made about fighting fake news without it becoming “the arbiter of truth”. It will make fake news posts less visible, append warnings from fact checkers to fake news in the feed, make…

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