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House of Cards creator Beau Willimon calls for Twitter to shut down Donald Trump's account because it's a "threat" to national security. But can this actually be done?
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| UpdatedThe author of Shrill shares what life is like since she quit Twitter and why she'll never agree to speak on an all-white panel.
Topics: non-fiction, feminism, women, people, internet-culture, social-media
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| UpdatedPeople with suicidal thoughts who make worrying posts to Facebook Live will now get real-time intervention, in changes that come after a number of livestreamed deaths.
Topics: social-media, internet-culture, information-and-communication, community-and-society, suicide, brisbane-4000, qld
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As a warning to others, a Mount Gambier man shares his three months of dialogue with scammers who assumed the alias of a Russian woman on a popular Australian dating website.
Topics: internet-culture, information-and-communication, human-interest, law-crime-and-justice, crime-prevention, crime, community-and-society, relationships, mount-gambier-5290, sa, russian-federation
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Australians are delivering millions of dollars into the hands of scammers each year in the hope of romance and love, but many incidents are going unreported.
Topics: human-interest, law-crime-and-justice, internet-culture, community-and-society, information-and-communication, mount-gambier-5290, sa, russian-federation
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Energy Minister Mark Bailey says he will reactivate a private email account he controversially closed after revelations it was used for official business, and while the Opposition has referred him to the corruption watchdog, he says LNP MPs are doing the same.
Topics: state-parliament, computers-and-technology, internet-culture, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedSnap passes its first major test on Wall Street, with the company pricing its initial public offering of 200 million non-voting shares at $17 each.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, science-and-technology, computers-and-technology, internet-culture, information-and-communication, united-states
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Many people make important decisions based on first impressions. So how can you make a positive first impression online?
Topics: internet-culture, relationships, people, human-interest, australia, act
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| UpdatedA Melbourne dog-owner discovers the ups and downs of internet celebrity after a video of her puppy sliding across floorboards attracts more than 15 million views online.
Topics: internet-technology, internet-culture, information-and-communication, animals, human-interest, melbourne-3000
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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