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The most compelling reason to never talk politics on Facebook

June 10, 2018 at 9:07 a.m.

There has never been a worse time to declare your politics publicly, according to a new and nationally representative online poll conducted by the Rad Campaign, Craig Connects and Lincoln...

Why some YouTube stars accuse Buzzfeed of ‘stealing’ their ideas

May 23, 2019 at 2:03 p.m.

"The Perfect Weekend for an Introvert" is far from perfect, technically. The two-minute video, hot out of Buzzfeed's L.A. content mill, feels like a five-second joke stretched into 120. But...

Cormac McCarthy, author of "The Road." McCarthy was the subject of a Twitter death hoax that fooled news organizations and scores of other people across the internet.

Meet the internet’s ‘greatest liar,’ whose Twitter death hoaxes have fooled millions

May 23, 2019 at 2:03 p.m.

You would think that, after two decades, Tommaso Debenedetti would have tired of hoaxes. He's had a pretty good run, after all — everyone from The New York Times to...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Radiohead tried (and failed) to erase itself from the Internet

June 10, 2018 at 5:49 p.m.

In the course of a single afternoon, Radiohead did what many of us have fantasized about for ages: evanesced from the Internet, leaving nothing but confused fans and empty pages....

How dating app for burrito-lovers exposed online dating myth

June 12, 2018 at 1:27 a.m.

The only conceivably good thing about branded April Fools' pranks is that they're confined to a 24-hour period. The press releases go out; the "jokes" get mocked and aggregated; and...

Peeple, the terrifying “Yelp for people,” is (sort of) launching March 7

June 11, 2018 at 5:07 a.m.

Peeple, the so-called Yelp for people, was a concept so bad it seemed unlikely to ever come to market. But to our surprise, the app that wants you to review...

He successfully trolled Ted Cruz, but someone stole his Internet fame

May 23, 2019 at 2:00 p.m.

"Trolling Ted Cruz" would have been the most successful YouTube video Zach Etkind has ever made. Since 2012, the 28-year-old entrepreneur has been uploading jokey stunt videos to his channel,...

A view of and Apple iPhone displaying the Facebook app's splash screen in front of the login page.

Facebook’s ‘teen dating’ groups are every parent’s nightmare come to life

June 12, 2018 at 2:52 a.m.

Even before the page has fully loaded, the popular Facebook group "Teen Dating and Flirting" looks like a something straight out of some parental nightmare. It has the full teen...

What a mathematically incorrect Facebook meme gets right about the lottery

June 12, 2018 at 2:56 a.m.

An Arkansas rapper casually solved American poverty this week with the simple post of a Facebook meme. "Powerball 1.3 billion U.S. pop 300 million," read the Monday post; the jackpot...

A screenshot from WhereWhitePeopleMeet.com.

Founder of white dating site says he’s not racist: ‘I dated a black woman once’

June 11, 2018 at 6:34 a.m.

Sam Russell suspected his dating startup, Where White People Meet, would ruffle a few Internet feathers. It's why the site's "About" page carefully avoids mention of Russell or his wife,...

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