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The mystery of a fireball crossing the Tasmanian skyline is solved, but not before Facebook users had declared alien life had finally made it to Tasmania.
Topics: popular-culture, social-media, internet-culture, pseudo-science, hobart-7000
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Kelly Slater has felt the wrath of internet fury after calling on French government to commence culling sharks off Reunion Island in the wake of another fatality.
Topics: surfing, social-media, environmental-management, marine-biology, internet-culture, sport, reunion, united-states
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| UpdatedOf course we should shame Pete Evans for what he feeds his daughter, writes Ben Pobjie. But while we're at it, that kid has a really bad haircut...
Topics: popular-culture, parenting, offbeat, internet-culture, social-media, australia
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Police ask the family of a man injured in last weekend's fatal crash in Capel to contact Facebook as his page continues to attract negative comments.
Topics: social-media, internet-culture, road, accidents, capel-6271
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In an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit, a user corrects a NASA scientist after their "brain fart" and experts answer burning questions about the newly discovered planetary system.
Topics: internet-culture, science-and-technology, astronomy-space, space-exploration, united-states
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Parents are being reminded to pre-vet every app their young children download amid renewed concerns that virtual reality gaming is exposing minors to sexual advances.
Topics: internet-culture, games, child-abuse, family-and-children, sexual-offences, australia, darwin-0800
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Reword is an online tool that identifies cyberbullying language, and following the success of the desktop interface, fundraising is underway to develop a mobile app.
Topics: internet-technology, bullying, schools, community-and-society, mental-health, internet-culture, human-interest, melbourne-3000
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Amanda Palmer is an American musician and crowdfunding pioneer whose life is a series of artistic collaborations, risqué performances and digital outpourings. Fearlessly outspoken, she frequently finds herself at the centre of controversy.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, music, bands-and-artists, punk, rock, performance-art, street-art, government-and-politics, activism-and-lobbying, world-politics, internet-culture, social-media, travel-and-tourism, australia, united-states
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YouTube and Disney cut ties with influential YouTube star PewDiePie after he posted several videos that were deemed anti-Semitic, including one where he paid Indians $5 to hold up signs reading "Death to all Jews".
Topics: social-media, internet-culture, community-and-society, arts-and-entertainment, united-states
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Last year children spent an average of 12 hours a week online, compared to 10.5 hours spent in front of the TV, according to a survey of Australian kids aged six to 13.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, internet-culture, computers-and-technology, internet-technology, television, social-media, children, sydney-2000
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to Dr Haji Amirudin Abdul Wahab, the CEO of Cyber-Security Malaysia about the arrest of dozens of men who had scammed millions of dollars from lonely women.
Topics: computers-and-technology, internet-culture, internet-technology, community-and-society, marriage, singapore, malaysia
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| UpdatedWA political parties are using Facebook data to target voters like never before using a game-changing strategy straight out of the Donald Trump election handbook.
Topics: government-and-politics, social-media, internet-culture, perth-6000
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| UpdatedA unique partnership between a linguist, an app designer and a remote Aboriginal community is helping to ensure the survival of a rare Indigenous language.
Topics: aboriginal, aboriginal-language, internet-culture, information-and-communication, languages, university-and-further-education, research, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, gununa-4871
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Plastics harm turtles
Topics: conservation, internet-culture, nsw
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| UpdatedA new dating app aims to match lovers based on their mutual dislike of Donald Trump, slow drivers and butt selfies — it's going to change the world, writes Ben Pobjie.
Topics: popular-culture, relationships, internet-culture, social-media, offbeat
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| UpdatedA Facebook post implying former Greens leader Bob Brown enjoyed being manhandled by forestry workers during a protest will be the subject of an official complaint.
Topics: social-media, internet-culture, gays-and-lesbians, tas
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| UpdatedA tiny plastic farmer wearing a wide-brimmed hat and green overalls does his bit to raise awareness of Australian agriculture.
Topics: rural, farm-labour, human-interest, offbeat, primary, education, information-and-communication, internet-culture, social-media, tocumwal-2714, nsw
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We need to do more to stop the scourge of loneliness, writes Deirdre Fidge. If that means responding to an online ad for a fishing buddy, so be it.
Topics: relationships, welfare, mental-health, internet-culture, social-media
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| UpdatedHala Snack Pack is one of many awful 'words' awarded honorary status by the Macquarie Dictionary in recent years. Until the dignity of the dictionary is restored, Ben Pobjie is enforcing a 'lexiban'.
Topics: popular-culture, offbeat, internet-culture, social-media, english, australia
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| UpdatedFuelled partly by the rise of Donald Trump, the term 'toxic masculinity' has entered the mainstream, writes Hayley Gleeson. But not everyone agrees it's a positive development in gender relations.
Topics: feminism, men, offbeat, internet-culture, social-media, mens-health
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| UpdatedEmployees from US government agencies establish a network of unofficial "rogue" Twitter feeds in defiance of what they see as attempts by President Donald Trump to muzzle science.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, information-and-communication, internet-culture, social-media, climate-change, united-states