Alex Jones’ miserable week continues
August 9, 2018
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You know that the Internet has it in for you when even MailChimp decides to ban you. Alex Jones, prominent American conspiracy theorist, has
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The maddening world of YouTube riddles
July 24, 2018
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Whatever it is that you’re supposed to be doing, YouTube can always be a distraction that will stop you doing it. After all, if you
Why did YouTube ban a video of a chocolate cake?
July 6, 2018
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Scientists have noticed that video sharing site YouTube is increasingly taking down their uploaded content, with even a demonstration of how to make a chocolate
YouTube views to count towards UK singles chart
June 26, 2018
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In a move that could be said to either drive home the changing ways we listen to music, or leave you wondering “wasn’t that the
Yahoo receives fine for data hack
June 15, 2018
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Online services firm Yahoo has been handed a fine of a quarter of a million pounds for a hack that has impacted over 500,000 UK
Teens start to ditch Facebook
June 4, 2018
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According to a recent report from US-based research organisation Pew Research Center, an increasing number of US teenagers are abandoning social media site Facebook in
Wikipedia info to be added to YouTube conspiracy videos
March 15, 2018
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In a blog a short while ago, I suggested that one way social media sites could better inform their users on what sort of content
Is YouTube pushing us towards extremes?
March 13, 2018
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We live in a time where people tend to gravitate towards a very clear and uncompromising point of view. The rise of the far-right in
How did our favourite websites get their names?
October 18, 2017
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For many of us, a day doesn’t go by where we don’t visit one of our beloved search engines or social media sites, and their
