TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

As much as he had benefited from the rise of the mobile internet, he thought there was a far bigger opportunity building a consumer brand and applying the lessons he learned from programming to the manufacture of tangible products. In addition, the quick turnaround allows agile brands to take advantage of that most ephemeral of IP, memes.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

I’m at home, staring at the future face of the metaverse and trying valiantly not to think about memes from a TV show known for its exploration of ethics and humanity. “There are four lights!” Picard shouts defiantly. Of course, I’m not being tortured.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

It works in areas with slow internet. So this is really important in areas that, so, for example, in Latin America, in certain parts of Asia, in Sub-Saharan Africa, that the internet is not as fast. So it’s a great tool for areas that have low internet connection. . So first I have on the left, this just a funny meme.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Context for the event from Rory Cellan-Jones: Prevailing ethos of the web has been libertarian, optimistic about the potential of the internet to be a medium of free expression and break down barriers. Panelists include: Susan Pointer, Google’s Director of Public Policy & Government Relations.

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

Facebook is limiting the spread of pages and groups linked with the word “boogaloo,” an internet slang term used in some far-right extremist circles to refer to the idea of an impending second American Civil War, as first reported by Reuters. A report found more than 125 boogaloo groups with more than 72,000 combined members.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2022

The prehistory of internet money is filled mostly with libertarians and anarchists, but as cryptocurrency has gone mainstream, more conventionally-minded people have flooded into cryptocurrency. People are urged to BUIDL, pronounced “biddle,” a play on Bitcoin’s HODL meme. I wasn’t sure what to expect — or who. Musk is 49.)

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Like a couple of videos and follow a few accounts and suddenly, by way of the mysterious black box of an algorithm that governs the platform’s addictive delivery mechanism, you’ll find the “For You” tab inundated with skateboarding. Arriving at skateboarding TikTok isn’t hard to do. hahahaden22 This trick needs a name ?

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Government bogeyman Elon Musk has been accused by his number-one nemesis, " 212 " rapper Azealia Banks, of having a "botched penis implant" a funny-sounding but extremely real and dangerous complication that can occur when people try to surgically make their dicks bigger.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 5, 2025

In short, it's a meme. Like most memes — as well as onions and ogres — there are layers involved. The internet loves absurdism and the phrase is certainly absurd — it's purposefully awkward to read and nonsensical. As with anything, memes evolve. These three little words are as powerful as any other.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

government officials, including Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, and more. government officials to use Signal, but it would also be pretty stupid to include a journalist in that chat. They made a callback to the JD Vance big head memes.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

Lately, he has been addressing the consumer technology problems highlighted during the pandemic, including the lack of access to broadband at home in rural areas, an education gap with children due to limited internet access, and a threat to privacy with the introduction of contact tracing. But also, you’ve kind of become a meme.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

s deadly plane crash This is happening as Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) fire hundreds of employees at the Federal Aviation Administration. And since it's 2025, they're expressing their anxiety through jokes and memes online. But at least the internet has jokes. me: haha what? not even kind of.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 10, 2025

The internet spun Duos passive-aggressive personality into a meme (including one much-circulated image of him holding a gun). Duos internet stardom is so significant that, in an interview last year for the Acquired podcast, von Ahn assessed the owls value at hundreds of millions of dollars. government.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 20, 2025

There was once a time when memes and internet-born jokes were a novelty enjoyed by relatively few people – the kind who would describe themselves as Extremely Online. Crucially, you had an understanding of internet culture that the average person probably didn't. But in 2025, it's very difficult to make that claim.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

You have the Russian Internet Research Agency, and their current activities. And breakdowns created by government, like an overwhelmed Post Office. They have also pivoted and now hire people in-country to create content. Facebook broke open one of these networks this week. Yes, true! I have written about this, too.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 5, 2025

New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calling the new Republican government rapists and, in response, telling critics to cry more? During the 2024 election, then-President Joe Bidens campaign also briefly embraced the Dark Brandon meme , which reimagined the 81-year-old Democratic nominee as a cooler internet alter-ego.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

So far the US government has not formally stated its case. Governing. ? The analysis, by Sensor Tower, focused on government-endorsed apps in countries including Australia, France, Germany, and India. Many are funded and operated by government officials, political candidates, PACs, and political party operatives.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

And in Las Vegas, three men were indicted “for allegedly conspiring to destroy government and private property during protests in that city on May 30, and for allegedly possessing Molotov cocktails,” the Wall Street Journal reported. Also of note is where Boogaloo adherents are organizing themselves: social networks, most notably Facebook.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

Later that year, he said that it was important not to let China set the rules for the internet in the rest of the world, arguing that the country’s values aren’t democratic. Governing. ? Talking to strangers on the internet is the new activity of quarantine. Mark Gurman / Bloomberg). Matt Johnston / IT News). Things to do.

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The Verge

JUNE 2, 2020

President Trump and his allies are now openly threatening violence against Americans — it’s time to remove them from the internet Emerging after days of darkness, President Donald Trump threatened Americans on Monday night with a military crackdown involving “thousands of heavily armed soldiers.” Photo By Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

And as Adi Robertson points out at The Verge , the idea that algorithmic recommendation engines are at the heart of our troubles leaves out vast swathes of the internet that are arguably just as important as the big social networks, and perhaps in some cases even more so. Governing. ? Also, here’s a TikTok meme power ranking.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Governing. ? Weeks after content moderators reached a $52 million settlement with Facebook over trauma they suffered working for the company, many are being told that they must view some of the most disturbing content on the internet for an extra 48 minutes per day. Joseph Pisani / Associated Press). Sam Biddle / The Intercept ).

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The Verge

JANUARY 6, 2021

In images that will haunt our republic for generations, Trump’s crazed supporters terrorized our elected representatives and their staffs and forced them to evacuate the seat of American government. For more than four years he has polluted the internet, turning large swaths of our shared spaces into fever swamps of conspiracy and hatred.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

In a world with less going on, we might be having a conversation about why the same government considering a breakup of a tech giant was relying on that same tech giant’s size and power to provide critical aid during a pandemic. Or why the government was relying on tech giants for so much of its pandemic response at all. Governing. ?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 28, 2025

His new smartwatch cant handle notifications as adeptly as an Apple Watch, is shut off from supporting SMS and iMessage, lacks an easy way to integrate with third-party iPhone apps, and cant access the internet if the Pebble app isnt running on the iPhone. Read More TikTok is facing a rare meme drought.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 15, 2025

He flexes loudlyhyping Tesla and xAI, bashing the federal government, even parenting like a drill sergeant. Elon Musks gaming persona Scroll through Elon Musks X feed and youll find it all: offensive memes, government rants, attacks on business criticsand increasingly, gaming content. Elon Musk loves to project strength.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Swallowing the poison pill To recap: Republicans excluded their Democratic colleagues from negotiations on a spending bill to avert a government shutdown, offering them a bill littered with insulting provisions , like the one that would make it impossible for Congress to undo Trumps haphazard tariffs.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2020

The World Health Organization is developing methods to measure the harm of virus-related misinformation online, and over two weeks in July the group hosted an online conference with doctors, public health experts and internet researchers about how to address the problem. Governing. ? They know how to do the right thing, and they can.

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