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With only a few days before what’s perhaps the most acrimonious election in modern American history, an FBI Twitter account started posting a series of links to documents from its archives. Among them, there were documents on Donald Trump’s father Fred, and files about the Clinton Foundation that had come from an FBI investigation…
Video has taken over social media, and now it’s coming for your lock screen. Today Mic is launching a revamped version of its MicCheck iPhone app (now called simply Mic) that primarily focuses on push alerts, taking advantage of the rich notification capabilities in iOS 10 to offer video, photos, and text alerts accessible on…
Vine Dries Up. Black Humor Loses a Home – NYTimes.com. Source: Vine Dries Up. Black Humor Loses a Home – NYTimes.com
King Bach, Amanda Cerny, Marcus Johns and more walked away when Vine refused to fix its bugs and compensate them for their work. Most of us learned just last week that Vine’s mobile app will be shutting down. But some of the platform’s biggest stars have suspected for months that the end was near — because they…
Silicon Valley The Inside Story of Vine’s Demise Former employees paint a picture of management issues, changing strategies, and existential questions. Nash Grier, a Vine star, at the premiere of his first movie The Outfield in November 2015. By Laura Cavanaugh/WireImage/Getty Images. The intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Los Angeles holds a…
storytext There’s an apartment building on Vine Street in Hollywood that is famously home to several of the most well-known faces of Vine, a social media platform that Twitter announced on Thursday it would be shutting down indefinitely. The news came as a shock to some, but the 6-second video-making residents of the building were…
Illustration by Angelica Alzona If someone asks you to send them money on a dating app like Tinder, don’t do it. This might sound like common sense, but in a world where more people are meeting potential partners online, it can become all too easy for otherwise intelligent people to get scammed. And these Tinder…
Updated Oct. 21, 2016 7:43 p.m. ET Some of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump ’s posts on Facebook have set off an intense debate inside the social media company over the past year, with some employees arguing certain posts about banning Muslims from entering the U.S. should be removed for violating the site’s rules on…
Image: Getty / Facebook / Adam Clark Estes There’s a lot of weird stuff happening on Facebook, and our readers often send us tips and screenshots of strange happenings from their News Feeds. This week, we received an unusual one. It was sent to us in the wake of a Wall Street Journal report about…
Rep. Steven Smith of Georgia’s 15th District was the first member of Congress to endorse Donald Trump and has been a vocal and provocative advocate for the candidate on Twitter. Two things, though: Georgia doesn’t have a 15th District and there’s no such congressman named Steven Smith. Meet the man behind the myth. Molly Taft…