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The Grinch has knee surgery tomorrow
+ Krampus thirst traps, RFK nude sponcon, getting rich off ringtones, and the man ChatGPT refuses to name
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An influencer is suing another influencer for copying her aesthetic. Can she win?
+ Bailing people out of jail for clout, Jojo Siwa goes rogue, Harry Potter-themed chatbot 9/11, and what exactly is a khia
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Let's check in on MrBeast
LOLCows, pro-ana chatbots, the protein plague, Dr Disrespect to Rumble, and a new podcast from Alex Cooper's network
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Tech companies are clamoring to re-buttonize their products
Have we reached peak touchscreen?
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You should pay attention to Kai Cenat
Live streaming is becoming more pervasive and a bigger part of our media diets, according to a new report
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One of YouTube's biggest channels is opening a massive production studio
YouTuber Alan Chikin Chow is growing faster than MrBeast and amassing billions of views a month
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The majority of news influencers are conservative men, study finds
The latest Pew Research report on news content creators paints a damning picture of our skewed information ecosystem
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Is Spotify the new YouTube?
+ BlueSky has the juice, the MAGA girlie aesthetic, NPC streamer romance, brr baskets, and drama on the Crumbl cookie subreddit
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Is the red heart emoji MAGA? ❤️
Liberal TikTok users are abandoning the emoji over fear of its political implications. It's not the first time emojis have become political.
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Meta's Threads is 'overrun' with liberal election fraud conspiracies
Thousands of users have amplified baseless claims of hacked voting machines as Democrats become more comfortable embracing denialism
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Algorithms are making political speech more extreme
+ a facial recognition boom, Jack Dorsey bans mention of Jay-Z, the Moo Deng effect, and Trump's weird system for posting online revealed
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Why Democrats won't build their own Joe Rogan
"This is not a cultural war that you can win just by doing fucking podcasts" + Meat Loaf’s wikipedia drama, eating disorder Twitter turns on Trump, DDG…
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