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Social media platforms still can’t stop mass shooting videos from going viral

Vox

Saturday’s racially motivated made-for-the-internet mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, went differently. This time, the shooter shared his appalling acts on Twitch, a livestreaming video app popular with gamers, where it was shut down much more quickly, less than two minutes after the violence began , according to the company.

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Markable.AI launches $100M ad fund for creators on Instagram, TikTok and other social platforms

GeekWire

offers a workflow automation and advertising platform for social creators. The social media platform had been testing a beta integration of Markable’s AI technology to automatically recognize items in images and videos and recommend similar products for users to purchase. Weibo decided to drop the integration as a result.

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The internet peaked with “the dress,” and then it unraveled

Vox

If you were on the internet on February 26, 2015, you saw The Dress. Looking back, the posting of “the dress” represented the high-water mark of “fun” on the mid-2010s internet. Back then, the whole media ecosystem was built around social sharing of viral stories. It also fostered an internet monoculture.

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2020: The year the internet didn’t crash

GeekWire

But it could have been worse: the internet could have crashed, or not been there at all. Just look at how much of our lives shifted to the internet as a result of the pandemic. Imagine what things would have been like without the internet. Video conferencing numbers demonstrate the reality. I certainly wouldn’t have.

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Good internet service is still a luxury in the US

Vox

Broadband has become increasingly important for everything from how we work to how we socialize to how we pray. Just over half of Americans making less than $30,000 a year have home broadband, a service that’s increasingly important for numerous aspects of life, from school to work to socializing. It’s also seemingly a luxury good.

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Breaking Barriers: How Digital Video Books Make Literature Accessible to All

Kitaboo

Digital Video Books are leveling the playing field, and in this blog, we will take a closer look at them and how they make literature accessible and beneficial to all. Table of Content What are Digital Video Books? How Can Digital Video Books Make Literature Accessible to All? inches and go as large as 10 inches.

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The Supreme Court appears worried it could break the internet

Vox

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in a case that could potentially break much of the internet — and seemed to realize the risks of heading down that path. As Justice Elena Kagan warned at one point during the Gonzalez argument, the justices are “not the nine greatest experts on the internet.” Gonzalez v.