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JULY 15, 2020

The near-silencing of politicians, celebrities, and the national press corps led to much merriment on the service — see this , along with Those good tweets below, for some fun — but the move had other, darker implications. Honestly I’m with the teens on this one — that video is a cry for help. Tanya Chen / BuzzFeed ). billion for a 7.73

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JUNE 23, 2020

Happy Worldwide Developer Conference to those who celebrate. How much of the low turnout should be attributed to the teens, and how much should be attributed to other factors — like that pandemic, for example? When one group uses these algorithms effectively, supporters tend to celebrate,” Zeynep Tufecki tweeted. “In

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Joe Biden’s campaign is taking over a popular Instagram account created by a teen supporter. Also : Joe Biden is partnering up with the celebrity video platform Cameo to allow celebrities to earmark payments for his campaign. Moscow Mitch will continue to have to take his lumps. Makena Kelly / The Verge ).

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

More recently, QAnon adherents took over the hashtag #SaveTheChildren as part of a campaign to falsely link celebrities to child trafficking. They served the teen with a search warrant at the home where he lives with his parents. Facebook has about 15,000 third-party moderators, not 30,000. Sorry for the errors.

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