Mark Zuckerberg Wants To Make It Clear He’s Cool With China

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg isn’t just learning to speak Mandarin Chinese. He also seems to want the gatekeepers of China’s Internet to know he’s learning about their governing philosophy — and even may be spreading it. Lu Wei, the Chinese Internet czar who heads a censorship system that keeps many popular American sites — including, of course, Facebook — out

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This Ridiculously Detailed Map Shows Where We Tweet Most

You may not have a ton of followers, but you’re never alone on Twitter — as a new map makes strikingly clear. Crafted by data artist and Mapbox software developer Eric Fisher, the map uses publicly available “geotagged” tweets — messages on the service that have the author’s real-world location attached — to highlight where the social network is most

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Mark Zuckerberg Takes A Whack At Apple In New Interview

If Apple were truly looking out for its customers’ best interests, it would charge a lot less for its gadgets, Mark Zuckerberg said in a recent interview with Time magazine. “A frustration I have is that a lot of people increasingly seem to equate an advertising business model with somehow being out of alignment with your customers,” the Facebook CEO

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#AliveWhileBlack Highlights The Ugly Discrimination Black America Knows Too Well

Protests spread around the country Wednesday night after a grand jury decided not to bring charges in the July death of Eric Garner, a black Staten Island man who died when a police officer placed him in a chokehold. The non-indictment came just over a week after a grand jury declined to indict a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, for

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This Guy’s Facebook #SayThanks Video To His Ex Is Something To Be Thankful For

We’ve watched plenty of personalized #SayThanks videos on Facebook at this point. And while they’re all touching in their own way (good job, everybody), none have elevated the form quite like the one above. In the clip, comedian Ian K., who goes by the name kelkulus on YouTube, #SaysThanks to his ex-girlfriend Juliana. It’s as painfully hilarious as it sounds.

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