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A Stranger Filmed Her on the Train. TikTok Users Decided She Had Monkeypox.
Lilly Simon, a 33-year-old in Brooklyn, does not have monkeypox. She does have neurofibromatosis type 1, a genetic condition that causes tumors to grow at her nerve endings. Those tumors were filmed surreptitiously by a TikTok user while Ms. Simon was riding the subway on a Thursday in late July during her commute. In the […]
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YouTube Automation Sprouts Cottage Industry That Promises Fast Money
Scott Mitchell became convinced YouTube would make him rich. Mr. Mitchell, 33, got the idea last year from videos that promoted courses on how to build so-called cash cow channels, which are often created through a process called YouTube automation. So he bought one course, then another and another. He also paid for mentorship services. […]
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Does Twitch Fame Have to Come With a Stalker?
Twitch is not unaware of the threats. A Twitch spokeswoman said the company planned in the coming months to livestream a session that will educate streamers about real-world risks. In recent years, it has increased its efforts to build safety into the platform, said Mr. Verrilli, the head of product. He noted, for example, a […]
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Instagram rolls back some product changes after user backlash.
Instagram said on Thursday that it was rolling back several recent updates to its photo-sharing app after Kylie Jenner and other celebrities joined a user backlash against the changes and criticized the platform for trying to be too much like TikTok. Instagram said it would pause tests of full-screen photo and video posts, which the […]
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Instagram, Facing Criticism From Kylie Jenner and Others, Tries Explaining Itself
Instagram versus the Great Celebrity Gang-Up? The photo-sharing app, which is owned by Meta, found itself under fire this week over how it has changed over time. The pile-on started on Monday, when Kylie Jenner, the beauty mogul with 361 million Instagram followers, shared an image on the site that read: “Make Instagram Instagram again. […]
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Why Big Tech Is Making a Big Play for Live Sports
LOS ANGELES — More than a decade after Apple disrupted the music industry and Amazon upended retail, the tech heavyweights have set their sights on a new arena ripe for change: live sports. Emboldened by their deep pockets and eager to boost viewership of their streaming-subscription services, Apple and Amazon have thrust themselves into negotiations […]
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Streaming Is Sadder Now
It may not yet be noticeable when we flop on the sofa and flip on Netflix, but the golden age of streaming entertainment might be over. We probably won’t like what happens next. Soon we might be paying more for fewer good options, feeling wistful about the olden days of limitless streaming binges, and sitting […]
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Netflix Loses Nearly 1 Million Subscribers and Breathes a Sigh of Relief
Disaster has been averted at Netflix. The streaming giant said in its earnings report on Tuesday that it lost nearly one million subscribers in the second quarter. That’s the largest subscriber defection in company history, but far short of the two million it forecast during its dismal first quarter report in April. When Netflix announced […]
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Netflix, Still Reeling, Bets Big on ‘The Gray Man’
Anthony and Joe Russo like to go big. In 2018’s “Avengers: Infinity War,” the directing brothers shocked fans when they erased half the global population and allowed their Marvel superheroes to fail. The next year, they raised the stakes with the three-hour “Avengers: Endgame,” a film that made $2.79 billion at the global box office, […]
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