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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.

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Supercharge Your Intern Program: 18 Proven Assignment Ideas Across Marketing, Data, & More

Whole Whale

problem, here is an awesome list of potential tasks that might be perfect for your interns. Make sure to create a dev copy and avoid letting interns edit live databases. The safest way to have interns participate in social media is to have them analyze the data and then come up with sample posts for the platform.

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

The Verge

But Guinness stands alone in recognizing Mitchell’s scores, as Twin Galaxies International Scoreboard — an organization that also audits and awards records — is sticking with its decision to not recognize them. The controversy around Mitchell’s records has a long history. Mitchell set the Pac-Man score in 1999 and the Donkey Kong one in 2005.

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SNL’s take on the Facebook whistleblower hearing reminds us of the good old MySpace days

The Verge

Last week Saturday Night Live poked fun at Jeff Bezos and the billionaire space race , and this week it took aim at the senators who conducted this week’s Facebook whistleblower hearing, portraying them as mostly confused by the social media platform, and the memes they found online (or “mem-ays” as Aidy Bryant’s Ted Cruz pronounces it).

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Supercharge Your Intern Program: 18 Proven Assignment Ideas Across Marketing, Data, & More

Whole Whale

problem, here is an awesome list of potential tasks that might be perfect for your interns. Make sure to create a dev copy and avoid letting interns edit live databases. The safest way to have interns participate in social media is to have them analyze the data and then come up with sample posts for the platform.

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Actionable Insights for Managing Gen Z in the Nonprofit Workplace

sgEngage

For Gen Z, things move much, much, much more quickly – trends, memes, slang. At the end of the day, we are accountable for the internal customer service, communication , and delivery of key data to both our internal teams and to our external supporters. Its rapid fire, and they are adept at moving at that pace.

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Forget flat — small cuts are the new up

TechCrunch

When venture markets flip from greed to fear, there’s a meme that goes around in startup circles that flat is the new up. After all, fintech giant Stripe took a 28% haircut to its own internal valuation earlier this year, so surely we’re seeing signs of excess being drained out of the market?

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