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The Cincinnati Zoo deletes its Twitter account after barrage of Harambe memes
Abby Ohlheiser
Aug 27, 2016 7:31 AM - The Cincinnati Zoo has deleted its Twitter account, a day after the zoo asked the internet to please stop making so many jokes and memes about Harambe, the gorilla who was shot and killed there in May after a child entered his enclosure.
The unbearable meaninglessness of memeing
Caitlin Dewey
Aug 27, 2016 7:40 AM - No, it's not just you: Facebook memes have gotten really weird. I mean, they've always been -- at least in some circles -- but it feels as if 2016 has witnessed the mainstreaming of something spectacular.
How video took over the Web
Drew Harwell
Aug 20, 2016 7:17 AM - Short, viral videos have become more than digital-age curiosities. They are a central economy of the Web and a serious business on which future media fortunes will be gambled, won and lost. Many leading the charge aren't traditional TV media giants. Instead, they're start-ups such as Tastemade, which since launching as a tiny YouTube food network has exploded to become the fifth-most-watched video publisher on Facebook.
From Justin Bieber to Leslie Jones: A month of leaving social media
Abby Ohlheiser
Aug 20, 2016 7:15 AM - Gabby Douglas is just one of many high-profile individuals who have avoided or quit social media -- particularly Twitter -- recently, often because of waves of abuse, prompted by the "wrong" hair, by appearing in the "Ghostbusters" reboot or by supporting the wrong romantic pairing of two characters in a fictional television show. Here are some of these cases just from the past month.
FCC chair: Your internet privacy shouldn't be a 'luxury item'
Brian Fung
Aug 13, 2016 7:18 AM - Should your online privacy depend on whether you've paid your Internet provider a little extra this month?
Best way to message POTUS: Facebook chatbot or old-fashioned email?
Andrea Peterson
Aug 13, 2016 7:16 AM - You can now send President Obama private messages through the White House's Facebook page. The Facebook messages will be among those considered for the 10 personal letters the president reads each day. But the actual process of using the White House chatbot feels more labor intensive than another digital messaging option available to citizens since 1994: email.
Arianna Huffington signs off at The Huffington Post
The Associated Press
Aug 11, 2016 9:57 AM - Arianna Huffington is signing off at The Huffington Post
App reviews: Defend the Planet, Fast Like a Fox
Hayley Tsukayama
May 28, 2016 7:17 AM - Reviews of two apps: Defend the Planet by Argo Studio and Fast Like a Fox by Fingersoft.
Trainor pulls video after she says her waist was altered
The Associated Press
May 10, 2016 1:53 PM - Meghan Trainor has pulled her new music video after she said video editors altered her waist to appear smaller. Trainor removed the video for "Me Too" from YouTube and Vevo on Monday after she discovered she had been digitally altered.
Inside Democrat Facebook's vicious civil war
Caitlin Dewey
May 7, 2016 6:43 AM - Like most battles on the Internet, the decisive clash of the Clinton/Sanders war began with exclamation points: "Bernie groups are GONE from Facebook!!!!," a panicked supporter wrote on the evening of April 25 in the Reddit forum r/SandersforPresident.

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