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GameStop stock halts trading after Reddit drama

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Photo by Johnny Louis/Getty Images. Trading in stock of video game retailer GameStop (GME) was halted briefly Friday, as it soared more than 70 percent, due partly to the enthusiastic support of a group of Reddit day traders. GameStop is the most-shorted stock in the market.

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Adobe accidentally deleted people’s photos in latest Lightroom update

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Photo Illustration by Mateusz Slodkowski / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images. For the past two days, photographers have been posting in a panic across Twitter, Reddit, and the Photoshop feedback forums. They’d downloaded Adobe’s latest update for Lightroom’s iOS app, and suddenly, their photos and presets were gone.

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TikTok, Reddit, and Facebook are struggling with ivermectin misinformation

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Photo by Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images. TikTok, Reddit, and Facebook are dealing with waves of content about ivermectin, an anti-parasite drug that has picked up traction among anti-vaxxers as a COVID-19 treatment. According to a spokesperson, Reddit is currently reviewing r/ivermectin and related communities on the site.

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Reddit winds down Dubsmash, but its video creation tools live on

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Photo by Reddit. Reddit will shut down its short-form video platform, Dubsmash, on February 22nd, 2022. A competitor to TikTok, Dubsmash was acquired by Reddit late last year with the purpose of embedding its video creation tools into the larger platform. Photo by Reddit.

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An Instagram bug showed a ‘camera on’ indicator for iOS 14 devices even when users weren’t taking photos

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In the latest instance of iOS 14’s beta mode tattling on unexpected app behavior, some users reported that they were seeing the green “camera on” indicator while using Instagram when they were just scrolling through their feeds, not taking a photo or video. Then control panel ratted out the app behind it.

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Reddit reports 18 percent reduction in hateful content after banning nearly 7,000 subreddits

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In June this year, Reddit began a huge campaign to remove hateful content from its site, blocking communities that engaged in hate speech and harassment. While I would love that number to be 100 percent, I’m encouraged by the progress,” writes Reddit user u/worstnerd , a member of the company’s Safety team. Image: Reddit.

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How to turn off autoplay videos on Facebook, Twitter, Firefox, and more

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. You’ve probably been caught off guard by videos that play automatically on Facebook, Twitter, or just across the internet in general. Automatic video play is a feature that, while nice to have when it’s surfacing content that’s related to your interests, can be pretty annoying.

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