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Your attitude is the reason you’re poor

The Next Web

Researcher Barbara Fredrickson, who I talked about earlier in this article, discovered the tipping point between negative and positive attitudes is a three-to-one ratio. A calculator on Fredrickson’s website for her book Positivity can help you evaluate your own positivity ratio. Positive thinking has a tipping point, as well.

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Content moderation issues are taking center stage in the presidential election campaign

The Verge

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? In the moment, Trump versus the TikTok teens offered a canvas that anyone could project their hopes and LOLs onto. Industry. ? Or was it something else?

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TikTok is having a monster 2020

The Verge

Here are Katie Roof and Zheping Huang in Bloomberg : The company owes much of its success to TikTok , now the online repository of choice for lip-synching and dance videos by American teens. Industry. ? The ambitious company is also pushing aggressively into a plethora of new arenas from gaming and search to music.

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Mark Zuckerberg on why he doesn’t want to “put an Apple Watch on your face”

The Verge

Industry. ? Teen girls are dominating TikTok , going from zero followers to hundreds of thousands in a matter of days. An entire industry has cropped up around managing Twitch stars. But people in the industry say there’s rampant exploitation going on behind the scenes. Kechi Nomu / Rest of World ). And finally.

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The massive Twitter hack could be a global security crisis

The Verge

During the pandemic, the app has fueled the media industry’s bottom-up revolution. Industry. ? Honestly I’m with the teens on this one — that video is a cry for help. After Wednesday’s catastrophe, it hardly seems like hyperbole to suggest that our world could hang in the balance. Steven Perlberg / Digiday). billion for a 7.73

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How tech companies are fighting antitrust efforts with front groups

The Verge

lawmakers and regulators trying to rein in the tech industry, escalating Silicon Valley’s war with Washington at a moment when government officials are threatening to break up large companies. None of this is new or unique to the tech industry, of course. Industry. ? It’s stuff you largely couldn’t do on Facebook.

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Trump’s latest attack on Section 230 is really about censoring speech

The Verge

It envisions the digital regulatory body — whether governmental or industry-based — as requiring internet companies to clearly disclose their terms of service and how they are enforced, with the possibility of applying consumer protection laws if a platform fails to conform to its own rules. Industry. ? Jesselyn Cook / HuffPost ).