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New on SSIR: Are we addicted to Slacktivism?

Amy Sample Ward

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is now up – it’s reposted below, but you can find the original post and conversation on SSIR. According to ABC news : According to the trend-tracking website Know Your Meme , the cartoon fad started with Facebook users in Greece and Cyprus in mid-November.

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New on SSIR: You can has memesez?

Amy Sample Ward

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog is up! That song, “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen, quickly also became the soundtrack to an Internet meme —that is, an idea that spreads online (“ I Can Has Cheezburger? Why meme at all? ” is one of the more famous).

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Stray review: Sci-fi cat game is much more than an adorable meme

Digital Trends

Stray is the feline adventure game that cat lovers have always dreamed of.

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Mark Zuckerberg says Kenosha Guard rulings were ‘an operational mistake’

The Verge

The contractors and reviewers who the initial complaints were funneled to didn’t pick this up. On second review, doing it more sensitively, the team responsible for dangerous organizations recognized that this violated the policies and we took it down.”.

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YouTube removes PewDiePie diss track for violating cyberbullying, child safety rules

The Verge

Following a review, we’ve removed the video in question for violating those policies because they had the effect of encouraging abusive fan behavior.”. Kjellberg disavowed the “subscribe to PewDiePie” meme after the phrase was used by the gunman who murdered more than 50 people in the Christchurch mosque shooting in New Zealand.

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

The Verge

Guinness World Records editor Craig Glenday said in a video released Thursday that “existing evidence and newly sourced eyewitness testimony, plus some new expert gameplay analyses and hardware verification” was reviewed before reversing the decision. “In

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Cyberpunk 2077 developer says disappointed players can ask for refunds

The Verge

Its performance has quickly become an online meme, Polygon reports, and videos and screenshots of the issues have been going viral on Twitter. We reviewed the game on PC , and although we found it was buggy, we didn’t see any of the more serious issues that players are reporting on the base PS4 and Xbox One.

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