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Thanks to the Rickroll, ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ hits 1 billion YouTube plays

The Verge

The official video for Rick Astley’s 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up” has surpassed 1 billion plays on YouTube. The song became a lasting part of internet culture thanks to the Rickroll meme and reached the impressive milestone a couple days ago. The video hit daily views of 2.3

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10 Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

However, to stand out from the other nearly one hundred million Facebook Pages vying for likes, comments, and shares, your nonprofit needs to excel at Facebook to ensure News Feed exposure. Perhaps they can not get a Facebook ad budget approved or they are simply stuck in the outdated “social media is free” meme.

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The most innovative companies in applied AI for 2025

Fast Company Tech

offers a web app that enterprises use to monitor how their brand name is portrayed in social media posts, videos, links, and memes. released its Compass platform, which lets individual users reality check or get greater context around suspicious claims made in social media posts, videos, links, or memes.

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Facebook will let people claim ownership of images and issue takedown requests

The Verge

The goal is to eventually open this feature up to everyone, as it already does with music and video rights. This will be especially interesting to watch with memes. Axelgard says they’re starting with a small group to “learn more and figure out the proper way to address specific use cases like memes.”.

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Mark Zuckerberg says Kenosha Guard rulings were ‘an operational mistake’

The Verge

one employee commented on the video feed. We need to get better at avoiding mistakes and being more proactive,” said another comment obtained by Buzzfeed News. A Guardian report on Thursday found widespread memes praising Rittenhouse and applauding the killing of the protesters.

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Guinness reverses decision to strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong records

The Verge

But those records faced scrutiny after people in the community discovered that Mitchell set them on video game cabinets that were running arcade emulation software MAME. Twin Galaxies founder Walter Day also appeared in the video, saying he was “very pleased to see this happen.” The Twin Galaxies lawsuit is still ongoing.

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Parler’s CEO has been fired

The Verge

Researchers were able to scrape a tremendous amount of users’ content, including their geotagged locations and videos , which were later converted into interactive maps of the Capitol building attack that proved many Parler users were involved. Parler didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Developing.

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