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Aug. 1, 2022
This item may have benefitted from a female focus group.
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A Twitter ad featuring Macaulay Culkin smoking a cigarette appeared to promise fresh news about ...
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March 30, 2022
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Feb. 17, 2022
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A strange online advertisement led to a 156-page slideshow article. We clicked through the whole ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
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Unions criticized the idea as a dangerous “brain fart.”
Written by: Jordan Liles
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Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 11, 2021
While this article was reshared on Veterans Day 2021, it was originally published in August 2018 ...
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Oct. 22, 2021
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Some Facebook commenters took the matter seriously and referenced politics, despite the fact tha ...
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Sept. 28, 2021
Viral memes can often be quite misleading. However, this one was spot-on.
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