FTC Sues Operators Of Revenge Porn Site 01/10/2018

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3 Out Of 5 People Who Try Cigarettes Become 'Daily Smokers'

At least three out of five people who start smoking go on to become daily smokers, a pioneering study has found.
 The data of more than 215,000 people, analysed by Queen Mary University of London, found at least 60.9% of people who try smoking repeat the habit daily, at least temporarily.
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YouTube's 'Open Letter' About Logan Paul Isn't Very Open At All

YouTube’s corporate communications team doesn’t seem to understand the meaning of the words “open letter.”


On Tuesday, the video platform released a Twitter thread that it claimed was “an open letter to our community.”


The “open letter” thread appeared to be a response to the recent...

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Public-Private Partnerships Must Survive This Attack On The Public Sector

We are not even a year into the Trump administration, but its reflexive and unthinking attack on the government it supposed to be running is well underway. Inconvenient but life-saving regulations are being eliminated, environmental rules are relaxed or unenforced, key positions are left...

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Brickbat: Banned in Germany - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Zerbor / Dreamstime.comThe German government will start enforcing a law requiring social media site to remove hate speech and fake news. Companies will have 24 hours after being alerted to remove material that obviously violates the law and a week to remove material if there is some question...

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Phishing For Dummies: A How-To Guide 01/05/2018

Tired of the work that goes into being a legitimate email marketer? Phishing is easy and fun, judging by a new report from the threat research lab Comodo.We’re sure Comodo didn’t
intend to offer a step-by-step guide on how to phish. But in essence, that is what we have here.
“You can buy...

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Laura Dern Calls Out A Culture Of Silencing Victims In Golden Globes Speech

Laura Dern won a Golden Globe on Sunday (7 January) for her role as Renata Klein in ‘Big Little Lies’, and used her moment in front of the microphone to ask those watching to help combat a “culture of silencing” victims. 



“Many...

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Twitter Says Blocking Accounts Of World Leaders Would 'Hamper Necessary Discussion'

Twitter appeared to clear up any confusion over whether it might block the account of President Donald Trump, publishing a blog post on Friday that said removing content from world leaders would “hamper necessary discussion around their words and actions.”


“Twitter is here to serve and...

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The Retaliation Game In Congress

There are several things wrong with the Republican tax reform bill that Congress is expected to pass this week. At this late hour, two in particular are worth emphasizing.


First, neither history nor many of our best analysts agree with Republican assertions that tax cuts will boost...

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Twitter Under Pressure To Stop Trump's Malicious Tweets 01/08/2018

On Twitter, Donald Trump rivals the most malicious trolls and purveyors
of misinformation. Yet, his status as a world leader makes him immune to the social network’s posting policies.
Albeit indirectly, that was the message from Twitter on Friday, as
the company faces mounting public...

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Drag Queen Star Courtney Act Reveals She's Been Allowed Twice As Many Bags As Her Housemates (EXCLUSIVE)

‘Celebrity Big Brother’ bosses waived one of their rules for new arrival Courtney Act, she has revealed.
Usually, ‘CBB’ contestants are only allowed two suitcases’ worth of luggage for their stay in the house, but prior to her arrival, she was told that she’d be given twice as...

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We Found The Neo-Nazi Twitter Account Tied To A Virginia Double Homicide

WASHINGTON — The warning signs were there, flaring up from Nicholas Giampa’s pseudonymous Twitter feed for over a year. The alt-right lingo and the swastikas. The advertisements of violence.


Giampa’s girlfriend’s parents, Buckley Kuhn-Fricker, 43, and Scott Fricker, 48, were aware of the...

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The Best Financial Moves You Can Make In 2018

Are you ready to kick off 2018 with a better financial you? Do you want to set aside your spending ways and educate yourself on money matters, once and for all?


We rounded up some financial advisers, accountants and bankers ― and sprinkled their advice with some plain old common sense and...

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Ad, MarketingTech Cos Fare Well In 2018 01/04/2018

Ad and marketing technology companies are poised for another big year, analysts suggest.  
Growth areas include Web-based advertising, agency services, measurement services and
enterprise software, Pivotal Research analyst Brian Wieser writes in a new note to investors.
Among other...

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Snapchat Ramps Up Content Deals 01/03/2018

While Facebook and Google battle each other for the affection, or at least grudging loyalty, of media companies and publishers, small but plucky contender Snapchat is steadily building its own
relationships with content creators. It just revealed a new scripted content partnership with...

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Facts Matter After All - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Cplener/DreamstimeThe scientific fact that facts don’t matter turns out to be factually wrong.
Sorry, let me try to put that more clearly. In a superb article at Slate, Daniel Engber revisits the research that concluded that blind partisanship and motivated reasoning are pervasive and...

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Tony Blair Urges Jeremy Corbyn To Oppose Brexit And Back Referendum On May's Final Brussels Deal

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Tony Blair has warned Jeremy Corbyn that Labour will turn into the ‘handmaiden of Brexit’ unless the party strongly opposes Tory plans to quit the EU and instead backs a...

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Messages Are Projected On Twitter HQ After Trump's North Korea Tweets

A group of activists began broadcasting messages on Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters Tuesday evening, calling on the site to ban President Donald Trump just hours after he threatened North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over the size of his “nuclear button.”


The group, Resistance SF,...

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GOP's Swamp Creature Of A Tax Bill

President Trump, in his victory celebration over the passage of the Republican tax bill today, said it was a big Christmas present to the American people. More properly, however, it is really a gigantic Christmas present to the Democratic Party, because it provides a ready-made single issue...

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Touchpoints In The Consumer Journey 01/01/2018

Too many marketers continue to rely on last-click attribution, according to a report by ClickZ, without understanding the value played by all touchpoints in the customer journey. Here are six
drivers of multi-touch attribution, by author Sam Carter,that will play a big role in...

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CBS Sports' James Brown Says Porn Vid On His Twitter Isn't His Doing

CBS Sports host James Brown says somebody was playing games with his Twitter account.


A link to a porn video was posted to Brown’s Twitter late Sunday, prompting the broadcaster to quickly proclaim that he’d been hacked, reports say.



Obviously my account has been hacked!!!
— JB James...

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The GOP Won Its Tax Cut For The 1 Percent, But The Battle To Stop It Will Help Progressives Win The War

In the long struggle to bend the arc of the moral universe toward justice, the forces of greed and inequality have just won a battle.


The owners of the Republican Party – a small, elite class of wealthy investors and CEO’s – successfully ordered their minions in public office to massively...

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