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Morgan Wallen, Gods country, SNL memes take over the internet

Mashable Tech

His recent Saturday Night Live appearance and subsequent post about returning to "God's country" has become a meme of sorts, most of which are poking fun at Wallen. If anything, the meme shows we all have our personal God's country. In case you missed it, Wallen appeared to storm offstage as the credits rolled on the sketch show.

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Parler’s CEO has been fired

The Verge

Today, Matze claims he was terminated by a board led by Rebekah Mercer (of the Mercer family, who are prominent conservative donors ), and that he had “met constant resistance to my product vision,” according to his memo. His last post was a Bernie Sanders meme with the text “I wish that John guy would hurry up already.”.

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‘May be an image’: what it’s like browsing Instagram while blind

The Verge

Social media can feel a lot less social if your access to the content shared within it relies on computers’ conservative interpretations. Memes usually involve rapidly evolving iterations of undescribed images with tiny words in weird fonts. Are the people contained in that image embracing and making goofy faces?

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How Facebook twisted Canada’s trucker convoy into an international movement

The Verge

But right-wing supporters have a wildly different view of events: figures like Tucker Carlson have portrayed the convoy as a working-class rebellion, and Trudeau’s response has been treated as enacting martial law, leading Elon Musk to tweet (and then delete) a meme comparing Trudeau to Adolf Hitler. And engagement hasn’t really come back.

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WallStreetBets donates more than $350,000 to gorilla charity to prove ‘apes together strong’

The Verge

Now, members of the financial subreddit are making good on one of their favorite memes by donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to charities supporting gorillas in the wild. The Dian Fossey Fund is returning the redditors’ meme-laden good wishes, updating its homepage to feature the slogan: “Apes together strong.”.

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Nextdoor’s SPAC investor deck paints a picture of sizable scale and sticky users

TechCrunch

But the fact that rude people on Nextdoor is a meme stems from the same scale that the company was just crowing about. ” How conservative is that metric? The company wants to bring people together. It can’t control what they do from there, as we’ve all seen. So, the metrics are looser here.

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50 (More) Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Chad graciously agreed to write up a guest post — and start a meme asking nonprofit and social media folks to add their favorite social media tactic in the comments below or using the hashtag #50smt and aggregated here. For example, the Charleston Parks Conservancy uses tips to direct Foursquare users to nearby parks.