The Verge

JANUARY 27, 2021

The Reddit meme that bludgeoned a hedge fund There are three things to remember as you watch the chaos unfolding with GameStop’s stock price. There is a Reddit forum for this , r/WallStreetBets, which describes itself as being “like 4chan found a Bloomberg Terminal.” Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The idea of buying at $4 a share and selling for $400 obviously captured the public’s imagination , and millions rushed to give trading a try as the GameStop meme went mainstream — taking AMC and others along for the ride as investors realized they could pump those stocks too. Chart: Apple Stocks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Inclusion in the annual report along with a list of other donors. Text or attractively designed images on Twitter, Linkedin, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Clubhouse, etc. Offer early or personalized access to reports or research before they are released. Inclusion in a page featuring major donors at a higher level.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Perhaps you recall last month, when GameStop stock shot up by as much as 500 percent, hitting a peak of $483 on January 28th, thanks largely to memes and a shitposting finance subreddit. Robinhood topped Apple’s mobile app store for days, and more than half a million people downloaded it, CNBC reports. There is a paper already.)

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

As with the Cambridge Analytica scandal — another story about which the basic facts had long been known, but which suddenly roared back into the spotlight after fresh news reports — seismic shifts in public opinion forced Facebook to rethink long-held values. It promoted an abhorrent world view, but the page itself got very little promotion.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2015

The Dress became one of the most quickly viral memes that the Internet has ever seen. Meme Me Up, Scotty. Memejacking is simply a type of newsjacking that connects your communications to a meme — that is, a pop culture trend. As communications tactics go, memes are cheap and easy to make.

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The Verge

AUGUST 27, 2021

Being original on Facebook doesn’t pay, according to its own data The conventional wisdom around the “ widely viewed content report ” that Facebook released last week is that it obscured more than it revealed. Facebook’s report details the top 20 most widely viewed posts on the network over the past three months. Take the No.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

If meme stocks can be a thing, what’s to stop audio meme sharing from going viral!? Dank audio memes anyone? Plus a cacophony of over-enthusiastic Internet memes in audio form. “As we’ve seen with memes and GIFs, people love to create their own very creative content.

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The Verge

AUGUST 3, 2021

So as a teen, I was the first to report my classmates if they smoked ganja,” said Buwanka, who only wanted to reveal his first name. And of course there are memes and TikTok videos. The anti-cannabis rhetoric, Buwanka said, comes from his parents’ generation, who believed cannabis was harmful. My parents fed me the same mentality.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Stats and Facts Get ready for another Canva template: Pull facts and stats from your annual report, recent research, or static content on your site and make a shareable image with a fact. Find funny gifs on giphy, memes on memes.com, political cartoons, ecards, or make your own funny content from jokes or funny celebrity quotes.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The most interesting part of his talk wasn’t the first half-hour or so, where he fielded softballs about colonizing Mars and his favorite memes, but later, when he invited Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev onto the stage. As Musk’s appearance highlighted, there’s a serendipity about Clubhouse that makes it compelling. Years, I imagine.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

In fact, Zack reports that the Ring “gave a record amount of doorbell footage to the government” last year. Also in the hardware world, Magic Leap detailed the availability and pricing of its next release: the Magic Leap 2, Lucas reports. No wonder Merlin Labs raised $120 million along with an Air Force partnership, Kyle reports.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

At one point, as Bloomberg reports , "Talk Tuah" overtook reigning podcasts including NPR 's "This American Life" and Jason and Travis Kelce's "New Heights," according to Edison Research's Top 50 podcasts for late 2024. "It That whole podcast was full of notorious crypto scammers," one Reddit user wrote.

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Whole Whale

MAY 1, 2024

Stats and Facts Get ready for another Canva template: Pull facts and stats from your annual report, recent research, or static content on your site and make a shareable image with a fact. Find funny gifs on giphy, memes on memes.com, political cartoons, ecards, or make your own funny content from jokes or funny celebrity quotes.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

Researchers discovered a Russian misinformation campaign that used forged documents and a network of burner accounts to spread rumors across Facebook and Reddit. In the years that followed, the campaign shifted to Reddit, Medium, and even the user-generated portion of BuzzFeed. Evelyn Douek has a perfect tweet about this report.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Weeks after Reddit community r/WallStreetBets shitposted GameStop stock up to more than $400 a share , the House Financial Services Committee pulled all of the major players in for questioning on Thursday. At the height of the meme-trading frenzy, Robinhood pulled the plug on popular stocks like GameStop and AMC, prompting lawmakers like Rep.

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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. The movement has also found to be active on Twitter, Discord, and Reddit, among other social sites.)

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

It was a big news day for bans: Twitch temporarily banned Donald Trump , Reddit banned The_Donald , YouTube banned a group of far-right creators , and India banned TikTok. Reddit banned more than 2,000 subreddits, including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse, as part of a major expansion of its content policy targeting hate speech.

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