Every year, Project Censored scours the landscape for the most important stories that the mainstream corporate media somehow missed and every year the task seems to get a bit stranger. Curiouser and Curiouser, as suggested in the subtitle of this year’s volume of its work, Censored 2020: Through The Looking Glass, which includes its full […]
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Charlie Brawn & Not a Good Lurk
Women seem to go for the body shape that evolutionary psychologists Rebecca Burch and Laura Johnsen refer to as “Captain Dorito”
Charlie Brawn If a guy is trying to amp up his attractiveness by working out, what areas of the body should he focus on? What do women notice and want? And how much of that can I get without any kind of surgery or dangerous potions? —Office Bod Women seem to go for the body […]
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PSA: Facebook is Down
Facebook turns to Twitter to report widespread outage
If you’re reading this article, you didn’t get here through Facebook. Facebook is reportedly experiencing some technical difficulties with their apps, including Instagram, and desktop version of the popular social media platform. Search the hashtag #facebookdown on Twitter and you’ll find some funny, some frantic and some just plain angry tweets regarding the outage. Facebook […]
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Family Milestones in the U.S.
Technology & Social Media • The average age for a child getting their first smartphone is now 10.3 years. Source: techcrunch.com • In 2016, 56% of children aged 8 to 18 had their own social media accounts. The average age when initially signing up for the account was 12.6 years. Source: Common Sense Media Census […]
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Feed Frenzy
For years, media outlets desperately chased the clicks promised by Facebook. Now the social media giant threatens to destroy them
As with any toxic relationship, the possibility of a breakup sparks feelings of terror — and maybe a little bit of a relief. That’s the spot that Facebook has put the news business in. Early this year, the social media behemoth announced it would once again alter its News Feed algorithm to show users even […]
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Today is “National UnFriend Day” — do you know who your real friends are?
In the digital age, quantity overshadows quality
In the age of the Internet, social media is our playground—with an endless sea of “friends” available just a click away. The term “friend” has become more of a verb these days than a word referring to an actual human being. That guy that you met at your friend’s party last week? Better “friend” him […]