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7 memorable moments from the Baftas

Three Billboards was the big winner at the Baftas on Sunday evening. It picked up some of the night’s top prizes – including best film, best British film and best actress (for Frances McDormand). Meanwhile, stars showed their support for the Time’s Up campaign by wearing black on the carpet and pin

What to know about the Russian troll factory listed in Mueller’s indictment

Special counsel Robert Mueller has indicted 13 individuals for their attempts to meddle in the 2016 election. Twelve of them worked for the Internet Research Agency, a notorious Kremlin-linked Russian troll farm. The indictment says the Internet Research Agency, which is based in St. Petersburg, “engaged in operations to interfere with

Why The Latest Snapchat Update Has The Internet Going TF Off

It’s the 2016 Instagram update all over again. Remember when IG took away chronological order posting and changed our TL forever, for the worse? Well, this time it’s Snapchat that has been updated and users are NOT happy about the new changes one bit. And yes, they

The latest Kim Kardashian internet meme is the strangest one yet

When it comes to the world of .gif creation and online memes, the Kardashians are never far away. With the likes of the ‘Name a more iconic duo… I’ll wait’ meme of Kylie and Kendall Jenner that got globally mocked and Inception-d as a meme within a meme, their involvement in all

The Internet Just Realized That Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt Are Now Single

The Internet loves nothing more than a good celebrity reconciliation… Minutes following Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux’s announcement regarding their splitafter less than three years of marriage earlier today, news sent fans on the Twitterverse into a complete and utter tailspin over the idea that Jennifer’s ex-husband, Brad Pitt, also happens to have found himself solo

‘The IKEA challenge’ is the internet’s latest dumb viral sensation

We all remember the crazy fads from our school days. You know; pogs, yoyos, locking yourself in a shop overnight. No? OK, you might not remember the last one as it’s currently sweeping Europe. The IKEA Challenge, as it’s being called, is to attempt to hide inside

Troll factories, bots and fake news: Inside the Wild West of social media

The US Congress is investigating how the Russians used Facebook, Twitter and Google to wage information warfare during the 2016 presidential campaign, and a special counsel is looking into whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin in its digital strategies. There is also growing concern that

FCC report uses old data to ‘prove’ net neutrality repeal saved the internet

The FCC is patting itself on the back for restoring progress in broadband deployment and essentially saving the internet. To prove it, the FCC released a report showing that “several companies, including AT&T, Verizon, Frontier, and Alaska Communications either commenced or announced new deployments in 2017,” and

Justin Timberlake’s Super Bowl outfit has the Internet confused

Sunday night’s Super Bowl LII brought us some big moments people can’t stop talking about, like #selfiekid, Tom Brady’s jacket, and of course, Justin Timberlake’s halftime performance. Whether you loved or hated JT’s show, there was one aspect of it that had the Internet all sorts of confused

Kylie Jenner breaks silence and the Internet with birth announcement

The announcement had been predicted for weeks in the celebrity pages partly because the 20-year-old US reality TV star had embarked on such a prolonged and uncharacteristic media blackout for a member of the wildly popular Kardashian clan. “My pregnancy was one I chose not to do