College student meme page Zoom Memes for Self Quaranteens became more popular than campus specific meme pages. Credit: Screenshot: heeba cherugi / Facebook and zeke sanchez / facebook In the past year ...

Facebook wants your help training its artificial intelligence engines to recognize hateful memes. The company yesterday launched the Hateful Memes Challenge in conjunction with data science ...

More than a month after he was arrested for sharing a meme on Facebook, 61-year-old Larry Bushart Jr. walked out of the Perry County jail in Linden, Tennessee, on Wednesday, where his wife was waiting ...

Mean memes, combinations of words and images that denigrate people based on qualities such as religion or ethnicity, pose an interesting challenge for machine learning programs — and will for some ...

Ah — another day, another widespread social media crash on the internet. Could the Twitter trolls ask for better meme fodder? On Oct. 4, Facebook and associated platforms like Instagram and WhatsApp ...

College tours all follow the same formula and do very little to give prospective students an honest understanding of the culture on campus. Teens are now turning to meme pages on Facebook as a genuine ...

Within the past few years, Facebook has shifted to a breeding ground for niche meme groups. Hyper-specific groups with titles like New Urbanist Memes for Transit-Oriented Teens started to pop up a ...

In the Web3 internet age, Marshall McLuhan’s supposition that “the medium is the message” proves itself to be exponentially true. The platforms upon which pieces of content are presented to the public ...

The saga of a 61-year-old man jailed for more than a month after reposting a Facebook meme has ended, but free speech advocates are still reeling in the wake. On October 29, Larry Bushart was released ...

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