Social Media
Abuse, arrogant tech VCs and hypocrisy everywhere. It's time for the weekend, folks.
The tech VC community shows its true face, social media gets toxic and… Oh, can we just have a break, please?
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Twitter seems to have accidentally unfollowed its trust & safety advisors
Twitter really doesn't seem to be carrying through on its commitments.
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Meeting an islamophobic troll
What happens when a muslim writer meets his persistent troll? An insight into the way the lonely and struggling can be sucked in by a feeling that they are part of something special.
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Post-Brexit political discourse in the UK
Luke Lewis, of Buzzfeed, has a public Facebook profile. And he’d been using it to comment on Brexit. And things have taken a nasty turn [https://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/im-being-trolled-on-facebook-by-brextremists] : > Over the weekend, comments started flooding in from people who’d voted Leave disagreeing with me. Not
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Twitter got seedy
Twitter’s fundamental problem is that it has got seedy [http://nymag.com/following/2016/03/julieanne-smolinski-quitting-twitter.html] Julieanne Smolinski: > Twitter is like a beloved public park that used to be nice, but now has a rusty jungle gym, dozens of of really persistent masturbators, and a nighttime bat
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Le Web 3 Lost Posts 3: The Dark Side of the Web
For an opening session focusing on eeeevil on the web, it proved to be rather quiet. I think everybody was knackered, thanks to the early start… Laurent Haug [http://www.liftlab.com/laurent/] of LIFT [http://www.liftconference.com/] kicked things off by asking if there is a thirst for
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Wikipedia Oops
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2007/11/wikioops.png] Looks like one of my colleagues has been misbehaving…