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The 100 Memes That Defined The 2010s
From planking to VSCO girls.
Katie Notopoulos
Why Is “Death Stranding” The Video Game People Took Seriously This Year?
Hideo Kojima’s latest release is strange, celebrated by critics, and highlights how hard it is for any video game to achieve mainstream legitimacy without a vast budget.
Steven Scaife
Venmo Users Are Being Inundated With Payment Requests From Strangers
Spammers are targeting Venmo users who show up in the app’s public feed and flooding them with dozens of payment requests.
Nicole Nguyen
The Infowars News Director Said He’s “Proud” The Site Called The Sandy Hook Shooting A Hoax
"I am proud of that."
Brianna Sacks
Facebook The Plaintiff: Why The Company Is Suddenly Suing So Many Bad Actors
The social media giant is trying to prove it can be trusted to police itself.
Craig Silverman
Sydney's Air Quality Has Hit Hazardous Levels. Food Delivery Companies Are Still Letting Their Riders Work.
"I can't afford to not deliver," one rider told BuzzFeed News.
Cameron Wilson
Exclusive: Facebook Fired A Contractor Who Was Paid Thousands In Bribes To Reactivate Banned Ad Accounts
"This behavior is absolutely prohibited under our policies and the individual is no longer working with Facebook."
Craig Silverman
The Facebook Portal, Now With 80% Less Facebook
The best video-chatting device that nobody uses is now a little more palatable for the Facebook-averse.
Katie Notopoulos
Facebook Tells US Attorney General It’s Not Prepared To Get Rid Of Encryption On WhatsApp And Messenger
“People’s private messages would be less secure and the real winners would be anyone seeking to take advantage of that weakened security,” the company wrote to leaders in the US, UK, and Australia.
Ryan Mac
Running A Neighbourhood Facebook Group Has Become A Seriously Complicated Job
Untrained volunteers are running communities that are a town square, Neighbourhood Watch, and emergency information service all rolled into one.
Cameron Wilson
Elon Musk Beat The "Pedo Guy" Defamation Suit In A Dramatic Victory
“The people that read Musk's tweet wouldn’t have known who he was talking about," one juror told BuzzFeed News.
Ryan Mac
NATO-Linked Researchers Bought Fake Social Media Engagements To Test How Facebook, Twitter, And Google Combat Manipulation. The Companies Failed.
A NATO affiliate carried out a four-month experiment into manipulation on social media websites. The findings are published in a major new report.
Alberto Nardelli
Facebook Said A Chinese Company Compromised Users With Malware And Then Ran Ads Using Their Accounts
The defendants allegedly used the accounts to run ads that often misused the images of celebrities to sell “counterfeit goods and diet pills.”
Craig Silverman
Kashmiris Are Disappearing From WhatsApp
Kashmiris enduring their region's ongoing internet blackout are losing their WhatsApp accounts because of the platform's policy on inactive accounts.
Pranav Dixit
New Lawsuit Alleges Mailchimp Facilitated Sex Trafficking
Filed in a Georgia court, the suit claims that the email marketing platform allowed a sex trafficker to match a victim with an online market for sexual exploitation.
Alex Kantrowitz
Google's Cofounders Are Stepping Down. Sundar Pichai Will Become The CEO Of Google And Alphabet.
Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are passing the torch.
Nicole Nguyen
Amazon Workers In Sacramento Are Demanding Paid Time Off
The workers, who call themselves Amazonians United Sacramento, say that unlike other Amazon employees, they receive no paid time off.
Caroline O'Donovan
Four Engineers Allege Google Fired Them For Speaking Up. Now They Want The NLRB To Investigate.
A group of former Google employees who were terminated last month are hoping their complaints about unfair labor practices will trigger a federal investigation into the search giant.
Ryan Mac
This Man's Post Was The First To Be "Corrected" By Facebook Under Singapore's Fake News Law
"Facebook did a great job," said Alex Tan. "They didn’t say that this post contains a falsehood."
Cameron Wilson
After Google Announced New Political Ad Rules, Michael Bloomberg Spent An Estimated $1 Million
That’s far more than the estimated amount Warren spent in November.
Alex Kantrowitz
Tinder Lets Known Sex Offenders Use The App. It’s Not The Only One.
Match Group, which owns most major online dating services, screens for sexual predators on Match — but not on Tinder, OkCupid, or Plenty of Fish. A spokesperson said, “There are definitely registered sex offenders on our free products.”
Hillary Flynn
People Are Doing Weird Stuff At Trump Properties On Google Maps
“Look a little closer!”
Caroline Haskins
21 Things BuzzFeed News Tried And Loved In 2019
Some of these things may change your life. Or not.
Scott Lucas
A Huge Flood Of Housing Is Expected To Hit The Market As Boomers Die
Get ready for a listing boom over the next 20 years in retirement destinations like Miami, Orlando, Tampa, and Tucson.
Venessa Wong
Twitter Said It Will Not Delete The Accounts Of Dead People
Twitter made a swift change to its plans to purge inactive accounts after people pointed out it this meant deleting the accounts of dead loved ones.
Katie Notopoulos
Russia Wants To Be Seen As The Owner Of Crimea. Apple Just Recognized Them.
“IPhones are great products. Seriously, though, @Apple, please, please, stick to high-tech and entertainment. Global politics is not your strong side,” Ukraine’s foreign minister tweeted.
Christopher Miller
12 Impeachment Conspiracies You’re Likely To Hear About At Thanksgiving
Pull this up on your phone before you start arguing at the dinner table this year.
Ryan Broderick
Ring Doesn’t Have Facial Recognition — Some Police Want To Add Their Own
The assistant police chief of Chandler, Arizona, briefed colleagues in April on “leveraging consumer surveillance systems.”
Caroline Haskins
Facebook’s New Message To Political Advertisers Is All About Protecting The 2020 Election
Forget 2016.
Alex Kantrowitz
Help, I Can’t Stop Watching This Video Of Elon Musk Breaking His Cybertruck Windows
"Oh my fucking god."
Ryan Mac
