Questions tagged [internet]
A global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide.
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At Reddit, are unofficial AI bots "posting old content as if it is their own" and "responding to comments"?
Redditor u/Embarrassed-Mouse-49 recently posted the following (current score of 6.9k 13k) to r/YouShouldKnow:
YSK ai bots are taking over reddit. Posting old content as if it is their own with poorly ...
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Are Chinese trends being mislabeled as Japanese or Korean?
I'm seeing claims like this in various places on the Internet:
Some Chinese trends such as Douyin and Xiaohongshu makeup, specific styles of makeup originating from and named after Chinese social ...
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Did YouTube send YouTuber Brendan Kavanagh an email to: threaten removal of 'Pianogate'?
For those who don't know, pianogate refers to a storm-in-a-teacup incident involving YouTuber Brendan Kavanagh who was livestreaming playing a public piano in London and some Chinese citizens who ...
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Did Andrew Tate claim his job was to seduce women and get them on a webcam?
Andrew Tate is a social media personality who was recently charged with rape and human trafficking offences.
There are screenshots available of Andrew Tate's website cobratate.com, on which it says:
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Does OnlyFans have a no 'extreme fisting' policy in their terms of service?
YouTuber ADoseOfBuckley recently published a video that discussed censorship and the video subscription service, OnlyFans.
At 6m39, he shows what he purports to be an excerpt from the OnlyFans Terms ...
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Was Andrew Tate raided by police because of a pizza box revealing that he is in Romania?
After the arrest of controversial internet personality Andrew Tate on December 29th 2022 it has been claimed in multiple highly viral posts (example on Reddit) that the arrest was made possible ...
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Did "MP3" surpass "sex" as the most-searched term online in 1999?
In MP3: The Definitive Guide by Scot Hacker, published by O'Reilly in 2000, the author claims:
In April of 1999, the term "MP3" surpassed "sex" as the most-searched-on term at ...
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Is the Perspectus Global "uncool emojis" survey real?
Daily Mail's article Thumb-down to the thumbs-up! Study reveals the cringeworthy emojis that are SO middle-aged and leave Gen Z youngsters rolling their eyes says
A spokesman for Perspectus Global ...
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Were the Starlink units for Ukraine not paid by Musk?
In reply to Elon Musk's (controversial) peace plan for Ukraine, someone tweeted that
USAID and other paid for Strlinks, you fake philanthropist.
(A tweet with 6000+ "likes", so reasonably ...
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Does Elon Musk's Starlink system play a significant role in the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
The DW article Ukraine is using Elon Musk's Starlink for drone strikes about the use of Starlink to provide internet in Ukraine is suggesting that it is playing a role in, e.g., the way president ...
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Are seven keys able to turn off the internet? [duplicate]
Are seven keys able to turn off the internet?
I had recently researched the possibility of turning off the internet, and found an explanation in another forum: How to take down the internet?
The ...
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Did Near, a prominent emulator developer, take their own life?
A couple of weeks ago, there was news in the gaming-related media that Near, the developer of SNES emulators, has reportedly died by suicide.
However, the proof of this is an anonymous document posted ...
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Why is YouTube removing dislikes on The White House Channel? [closed]
The website https://81m.org/ has developed a tool to periodically check the latest videos uploaded to the Official White House YouTube channel using YouTube's API, and counts the increases of likes/...
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Does Sci-Hub use malware and phishing to obtain researchers' login credentials?
There is a new BBC article, Police warn students to avoid science website about Sci-Hub, a pirate site to circumvent paywalls on science journals.
But Max Bruce, the City of London police's cyber ...
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Is this 'United Nations New World Order' website affiliated with the United Nations?
I stumbled upon this website: https://unnwo.org/.
The United Nations New World Order Project is a global, high-level initiative founded in 2008 to advance a new economic paradigm, a new political ...
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Are/were US broadband internet service providers making 90%+ profit margins?
A 2012 blog article from Stop The Cap quotes the Wall Street Journal (without a link) as saying:
Cable executives and analysts say that about 90% of the money cable operators charge for broadband ...
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Did Stack Overflow cut the number of negative comments nearly in half between the beginning of the fourth quarter of 2019 and January 21, 2020?
I read on https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/01/21/scripting-the-future-of-stack-2020-plans-vision (mirror) (emphasis is mine, to match the question):
In the fourth quarter of 2019, we created a large ...
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Does streaming a video to smartphone consume 1000W of electricity?
The German test magazine "Stiftung Warentest" tested video streaming platforms in the magazine 1/2020. As a side note they write on page 35:
Laut Studien der grünen französischen Denkfabrik "The ...
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Does streaming an album 27 times consume as much energy as manufacturing a CD?
According to an article on TheConversation:
So which is the greener option? It depends on many things, including how many times you listen to your music. If you only listen to a track a couple of ...
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Do Alex Jones' videos get thousands of views?
Alex Jones, after being kicked off YouTube, has found a new home: Banned.video. And the view-counter over there seems very suspicious: it shows each video having thousands of views. And each time I ...
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Is the internet in Madagascar faster than in UK?
According to this article dated July 30 2019, the island nation of Madagascar has faster internet than the United Kingdom.
If you only know Madagascar because of that animated penguins film, you'...
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Does YouTube delete video dislikes?
On some YouTube videos, particularly highly downvoted ones, I often see comments asserting that their dislikes on the video are being deleted, either by YouTube or the channel itself.
From the ...
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Is there any evidence of a secret level of deeply-hidden web-pages called "Marianas Web"? [closed]
There is a rumour that there is an Internet-based network, similar to the dark web (not to be confused with the deep web) called Mariana's Web (after Marianas Trench.)
The Infographics Show discussed ...
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Is Google causing 40% of the CO2 emission of all internet traffic?
In Switzerland we sometimes have not very well researched articles in the free newspaper '20 Minuten Friday'.They now claim in a video that Google is causing 40% of the CO2 emission of the internet ...
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Do the owners of the typefaces Garamond, Times New Roman and Georgia charge businesses who use them?
I received this in the Product Hunt newsletter today:
Little known fact: your favorite fonts aren't free.
The owners of your favorite fonts – Garamond, Times New Roman, Georgia – charge ...
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Is Gina Haspel wanted in Europe? [closed]
In a tweet from Randy Kennedy, then shared on Facebook by Girl du Jour (and then others) it is claimed that President Trump's pick to head the CIA - Gina Haspel - is wanted in Europe for "war crimes". ...
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Is the Airtel music ad the most streamed song and most downloaded ringtone?
This image was forwarded to me on Whatsapp
The Airtel Music Ad composed by A R Rahman was the Most Streamed Song in the World in the Year 2005-2009. Also it is the Most Downloaded Ringtone in the ...
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Did ISP "pocket" $400 billion that was supposed to be dedicated toward fiber cable infrastructure?
Bruce Kushnick, author of "The Book Of Broken Promises: $400 Billion Broadband Scandal And Free The Net," makes some pretty major claims. The most prominent article, an ad for his book written by ...
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How much rational is RationalWiki? [closed]
RationalWiki is a wikimedia platform based website which claimed purpose is (see its mainpage):
Analyzing and refuting pseudoscience and the anti-science movement;
Documenting the full range of crank ...
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Is Snopes.com in Danger of Shutting down? [closed]
According to SaveSnopes, the Snopes fact-checking web-site is in trouble because a service provider is refusing to hand-over advertising revenue for the site.
Snopes.com, ... is in danger of closing ...
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Is Arabic the 4th most common language used on internet?
The Wikipedia page, Languages user on the Internet provides two different ways of ranking the most popular languages on the Internet.
By content:
Estimated percentages of the top 10 million ...
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Is Kaspersky Lab a military unit?
In this article, McClatchy DC bureau claims that one of the certificates the Kaspersky Lab received from Russian FSB/KGB reveals that the entire Kaspersky Lab joint-stock company is actually a FSB ...
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Does the F-word constitute a third of all swearing on the internet?
This youtube video (created as part of a series of short programmes for the UK's Channel Four television called Susie Dent's guide to Swearing) claims (around 3:08 in) that the word "fuck" makes up ...
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Did a Chinese farmer spend 16 years learning law so he could sue a chemical company?
According to this meme, a chinese farmer spent 16 years preparing for and ultimately winning a lawsuit against local energy company Qigua Group.
Now I've been digging around a bit and found several ...
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Was #itAintRape every used seriously to justify rape? [closed]
The #ItsNotRape hashtag has gotten a bit of attention for its supposed condoning of rape.
However, when I checked out the hashtag the only content I could find scanning quite a ways back were tweets ...
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Does WordPress power 27% of the Internet?
According to the front page of WordPress.com (screenshot, in case the page changes):
WordPress powers 27% of the internet.
Unfortunately no source is provided for that statement. Is this number ...
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Does Google hire "human filters"?
This youtube video The Worst Job at Google - The Human Filter; claims that Google hire people to inspect content, and determine if they contain illegal contents.
It is based on a 2012 Buzzfeed story.
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Does YouTube send every video to every subscription inbox?
According to this video by The Game Theorists, YouTube does not push every video a channel makes to all of that channel's subscriber inboxes. Rather, a subscriber only sees videos from channels they ...
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Did ABC News briefly report that Hillary Clinton had died in the hospital, and did ABC confirm it on the phone with Infowars?
I'm obviously not asking whether the story itself is correct, I'm asking whether ABC News briefly reported it or whether it's a series of hoaxes.
I saw this alleged screenshot on Reddit just now. It ...
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Do small businesses that are on the Internet grow twice as fast?
Google claims in their Project Loon video (1:07) that (transcription mine):
And because small businesses that are on the internet grow twice as fast, everyone could create new opportunities for ...
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Can all administrative procedures except getting married or getting divorced be done online in Estonia?
I have read this quote in http://www.businessinsider.com/guardtime-estonian-health-records-industrial-blockchain-bitcoin-2016-3:
Mike Gault, co-founder and CEO of Guardtime, told Business Insider: "...
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Did Al Gore invent the internet?
"Al Gore invented the internet."
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"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
-Al Gore
"...Gore took credit for the Internet..."
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Do Lovoo and Ashley Madison use chatbots ("fembots") to flirt with male customers?
Sites such as Ashley Madison and German dating site Lovoo have been accused of creating and programming fake female profiles to flirt with male customers. Although creating a profile for membership is ...
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Is Stack Exchange the only major network where moderators are democratically elected?
The Stack Exchange 2015 Year in Review blog post claims:
After five years of democratically electing moderators, it’s mind blowing that Stack Exchange is still the only major network that embraces ...
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Can mobile phone cell towers be spoofed in ways that allow interception of calls?
There are multiple forms of evidence that people can spoof cell towers and monitor cells. This Forbes article reports a proof of concept that works for 2G technology. This article from The Register ...
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Is it true that online therapy for mental conditions is as good, if not better, as in person? [closed]
I've red a number of articles claiming that online therapy, in particular for mental disorders, is more effective than in person therapy. Though they do site studies, I find this very hard to believe ...
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Does speedtest.net give an unbiased answer? [closed]
Every time I use it, it always seems to give exactly the speed my ISP is advertising +-1%, whereas other services (that actually do something, but happen to report the speed at which they do so) have ...
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Will there be 50 billion devices connected to the internet by 2020?
According to this infographic in an article from BAE, they make the claim that the internet is predicted to have 50 billion non-human users by 2020.
Discounting the main purpose of the article, where ...
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Are sharks a threat to undersea cables?
Slate published an article recently, titled The Global Internet Is Being Attacked by Sharks, Google Confirms. Despite being catchy and all, most of the references seem to be other news outlets or ...
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Is the Deep Web orders of magnitude larger than the surface web?
For most internet users, the public web, accessible by search engines like Google, is the beginning and the end of the Internet. More savvy users understand that there are large numbers of sites that ...
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