Among the many internet trends people tend to gravitate towards, difficult, nonsensical, or ridiculous math problems receive a load of attention. But sometimes, things aren’t what they appear to be. An absurd math problem grabbed the attention of the internet earlier this week, causing a mini uproar among very smart…
In Geographic and demographic correlates of autism-related anti-vaccine beliefs on Twitter, 2009-15 (Sci-Hub mirror), social scientists from U Alabama, U Colorado and the NIH take a data-driven approach to understanding the surge in vaccine denying tweets that blame vaccinations for autism, a totally discredited idea espoused by the President…
Tweet this.Image: JAAP ARRIENS/NURPHOTO VIA GETTY IMAGES By Kerry Flynn2017-09-28 19:55:59 UTC Twitter just provided another line of evidence that Russians were quite aggressive with their attempts to influence on the 2016 election. Twitter revealed in a blog post on Tuesday that it had discovered about 200 accounts linked to…
415 Shares Image: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images By Adario Strange2017-09-02 22:00:38 UTC It’s the digital version of a playpen for an adult who’s incapable of setting his own boundaries. A new report in The New York Times on Friday talks about President Trump having no access to a normal…
156 Shares Zap!Image: Hulton Archive/Getty Images By Jack Morse2017-08-24 19:45:06 UTC We’re all just looking for a little genuine human connection in this increasingly digital world. Some of us, however, have slightly more interesting ways of finding it than others. Take, for example, Kevin Raposo. On Aug. 24, the technology…
The people of the internet have decided that film titles don’t sound British enough. In order to amend this, Twitter users have been rewriting popular film titles under the hashtag #makeafilmtotallyBritish. Some of these movie makeovers are pure genius. Here are some of the cleverest: Search the hashtag on Twitter….
498 Shares Autoplay can be annoying.Image: Leon Neal/Getty Images By Patrick Kulp2017-08-12 22:22:50 UTC Autoplay videos can be one of the most frustrating parts of social media feeds. Facebook and Twitter turn this setting on by default to juice the view numbers for publishers and advertisers. But for users, it…
This morning, Twitter covered Ken “Popehat” White’s profile page in balloons to celebrate his birthday. This afternoon, it suspended his account for posting screenshots of threats he’d received from another user. The ranting missive, from a far-right lawyer in Texas whose threatening Twitter postings White had earlier mocked, promises…
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In the wake of CNN threatening to out a critic if he does not limit his speech in the future, former federal prosecutor and First Amendment champion Ken White has published an eminently sensible post about the incoherence of the present moment’s views on free speech, and on the…
