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On January 16, 2013, Deadspin published an exposé of Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o’s fake dead girlfriend. The next morning, reality TV personality Donald Trump tweeted his congratulations. Fourteen minutes later, Deadspin tweeted back “Go fuck yourself.” This is the story of that tweet, as told by those who lived it. Barry Petchesky, Deadspin staffer:…
First Look Media has decided to discontinue funding of Reported.ly, a social media reporting and verification outfit. This has led the organization to announce it will suspend operations on Aug. 31. Besides Reported.ly’s editor Andy Carvin, four more staffers are affected by this decision and will be leaving First Look Media at the end of…
Oh well, looks like Facebook just got all anti-user · 2016-08-09 17:52 by Ben Williams Earlier today Facebook announced that it would start trying to circumvent users with ad-blocking software and show them ads. This is an unfortunate move, because it takes a dark path against user choice. But it’s also no reason to overreact:…
Twitter Inc. has listed 183,642 square feet of space in its Mid-Market headquarters for sublease, according to marketing materials and a source familiar with the property, as the company struggles to compete for advertisers and user growth has slowed. The social media company (NYSE: TWTR), which is San Francisco’s second-largest tech employer, has an immediate 78,792-square-foot availability at…
If Twitter can get more people tweeting about brands’ ads, then maybe brands will count those free tweets’ audiences as extra impressions and consider the social network’s ads more cost-effective. It’s a big “if.” But considering how Twitter’s ad business is hurting, it can’t hurt to try. Earlier this year Twitter introduced its conversational…
During the three years that Arianna Travaglini used Airbnb, she was a very good guest and received stellar reviews from her hosts. The five she stayed with praised her friendliness, cleanliness and conscientiousness. After she visited Toronto in April 2014, the Airbnb host wrote, “Very clean tenants. The apartment was in an amazing condition! Highly…
The recent shootings in Minnesota, Texas, and Louisiana are shocking and tragic. I can’t begin to imagine the pain and anger felt by the families of the victims. I know it has rippled across the country, and it has deeply affected us here at Airbnb. We believe in trying to make this world feel a…
Milo Yiannopoulos, aka Nero aka some real basic garbage in human form, got the boot from Twitter last night as a result of encouraging his racist and/or sexist and/or alt-right pals to go after actress Leslie Jones, who starred in the new Ghostbusters, aka the film sexist manboys wailed was ruining their childhood. Jones was…
Twitter’s decision to permanently ban conservative pundit and Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos has prompted a debate about free speech on Twitter under the hashtag #FreeMilo. Yiannopoulos, who tweeted under the handle @Nero, was suspended after his particularly negative review of the film Ghostbusters led to many racist comments directed at actress and comedian Leslie…
Nelvin C. Cepeda/ZUMA Press/NewscomMilo Yiannopoulos, the Breitbart tech editor and Trump-loving alt-right superstar, has been permanently banned from Twitter following accusations that he directed his followers to send abusive comments toward actress Leslie Jones. But while Yiannopoulos certainly straddles the line between being a free speech provocateur and merely a serial violator of Twitter’s terms…