Author: Zach_Wilson
Facebook Is Investigating A Voter Engagement App Used By Italy’s Five Star Movement
LONDON — A voter engagement app used by the populist party that is the senior partner in Italy’s coalition government is being investigated by Facebook as part of a broader probe into potential historical data misuse. The Five Star Movement (M5S), an antiestablishment party that won the most seats in…
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Venmo Users Are Being Inundated With Payment Requests From Strangers
tech Spammers are targeting Venmo users who show up in the app’s public feed and flooding them with dozens of payment requests. By Nicole Nguyen Nicole Nguyen BuzzFeed News Reporter Last updated on December 16, 2019, at 12:39 p.m. ET Posted on December 12, 2019, at 7:01 p.m. ET On…
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Bogus Hypothyroid Cures Are Rampant Across Social Media
Pinterest Pinterest search results for “hypothyroidism.” “No, you are not crazy, lazy, or faking,” the Pinterest post says. “Just count…” The link leads to a post on the website HypothyroidMom.com called “300 hypothyroidism symptoms: count how many you have.” The post, which lists 307 symptoms, details nearly everything that could…
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Why Is “Death Stranding” The Video Game People Took Seriously This Year?
Kojima Productions Death Stranding is a video game that belongs to the eminently fashionable “open-world” genre, where you freely roam a large environment, except it doesn’t focus much on traditional combat. Instead, you play as a postapocalyptic deliveryman, Kevin Costner–in–The Postman–ing your way across a ravaged US with hundreds of…
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The Infowars News Director Said He’s “Proud” The Site Called The Sandy Hook Shooting A Hoax
Infowars, the right-wing conspiracy theory site founded by Alex Jones, does not regret publishing false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting was a hoax, according to a new deposition with news director Rob Dew exclusively obtained by BuzzFeed News. “I think our reporting stopped what was going…
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Sydney’s Air Quality Has Hit Hazardous Levels. Food Delivery Companies Are Still Letting Their Riders Work.
Food Delivery Companies Won’t Stop Taking Orders Because Of Sydney’s Smoke back to top Source
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