Tag: Controversy

Flickr Apologizes For Selling User Photos
A few weeks ago, Yahoo's Flickr angered some photographers by selling their wor...
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Boston Herald: Obama Cartoon Was Honest Mistake, Not Racist
Twitter has been aflutter over a cartoon that recently appeared in the Boston Herald, and the newspaper, as well as the cartoonist behind the controversial 'funny', have made apolo...
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Etsy Bans ‘Redskins’ Items From Its Marketplace
Even if you don't follow football, it's unlikely that you've not heard about the controversy surrounding the Washington Redskins and its name and mascot. It's been controversial fo...
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Facebook Emotion Experiment Prompts Senator’s Letter To FTC
Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) has written a letter to the Federal Trade Commission regarding Facebook's controversial emotion experiment, seeking to have the commission examine the o...
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Facebook Global Policy Head Defends Controversial Experiment
Another Facebooker has spoken publicly about the controversial emotion experiment the company conducted without user consent in 2012. The company's global policy management hea...
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Regulators Probe Facebook’s Emotion Experiment
An experiment Facebook conducted with some of its users two years ago has been getting a l...
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Actually, Facebook Changed Its Terms To Cover That Experiment After It Was Over
The plot thickens. As you may know, it has come to light that Facebook ran an experiment...
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Did Facebook Cross The Line This Time?
Facebook went and freaked a bunch of people out again. They were about due, weren't they? This time, the freak-out comes from an academic study of all things, looking at how Facebo...
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Uber ‘Honors’ Pride Week with On-Demand Weddings
On-demand car company, ride-sharing purveyors, or disruptors of the taxi game – whatever you want to call them, Uber is known for creative marketing stunts. Last year, the company...
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Google, Once Again, Offends with D-Day Doodle
In another one for the Google hates America, freedom, and our veterans files, the search engine is once again on the defensive after pissing off some people on D-Day with a Google...
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Bride Drags Baby Down Aisle As Part Of Train
According to tradition, a blushing bride needs "something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue." One bride took "new" to...
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North Korea’s State Owned News: “Obama is a monkey”
Propaganda is usually more eloquent, combined with images of gallantry and false promises through meaningless slogans; a rhetoric that allows for no free thought or discussion – ‘y...
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