Chris Owen

How Popular YouTubers Pushed Young Male Voters Toward Trump How podcasters like Joe Rogan and Logan Paul turned young men, a once apolitical demographic, into a massively powerful voting bloc

NEW: My colleagues & I analyzed nearly 1.3k hours of footage (>2k videos) from nine wildly popular podcasters and streamers on YouTube to understand how they helped lift Trump to power. Now that he's back in office, the broadcasters are well-positioned to help build support for his political agenda.

I know I really shouldn't, but I get irrationally annoyed that Microsoft calls it a 'font' not a 'typeface'.

Don't tell me you drink this

wow. i don't want to ask about the party bags.

it's such an odd choice.

Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral” Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”

NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit”

theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...

Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal One of the most important AI copyright legal battles just took a major turn.

Meta tried to hide that it trained its AI on pirated books.

One staff member wrote:

“If there is media coverage suggesting we have used a dataset we know to be pirated, such as LibGen, this may undermine our negotiating position with regulators on these issues”

Fantastic @knibbs.bsky.social story

101 days between Graham Potter being on Monday Night Football and getting the West Ham job, well under the MNF-to-employment average of 276 days (2016-2025)

"However, they were left feeling they had made the right choice, as Lucifer was born in delivery room 6 before mum and son were taken to bed 6 in room 6 at the hospital."

FML.

it was TRUE. You should work undercover at Meta.

now i don't know what's true or not anymore. this is either a wonderfully subtle fib, or it's true.

i ask myself this a lot.

"massive insufferable godforsaken bellend"

aims for 2025: use the word 'crud' more often.

you spelled "absolute shitshow" wrong

well quite, we also need to know whether he really is 'for real'.

woahmygod. this is an assault on the senses.

HELLO.

that's quite the colour palette. Is it sponsored by Nurofen?

Facebook Is Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook's Censorship Instagram, Facebook, and Threads are removing 404 Media stories for “nudity” as the company is paid to put ads with explicit pornography in front of its users.

New: Facebook is censoring 404 Media stories about Facebook's censorship. Instagram, Facebook, and Threads are removing 404 Media stories for “nudity” as the company is paid to put ads with explicit pornography in front of its users.

www.404media.co/facebook-is-...

<<prompts "how can I tell if the wind will change direction?">>

One thing I love about going home around now this time of year is all the boozed-up middle management who pushed the boat out too far at the Christmas lunch and who won't stop hugging each other at the train station before an awkward hello tomorrow morning.

hello! how are you?

EVRI: "we've got your parcel"

four of the most chilling words in the English language.

note "he is working on....", rather than "he and the editorial team who also think this is an inspirational idea".

HT @stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social

@tomfreeman.bsky.social immediate follow for the shit joke.

Tom. no.

cryptic.

you're talking to someone called 'Christopher David' - i'm way behind, don't worry. There's a lot of dog names above me.

@oliviasolon.bsky.social you're officially one of the most popular names in the UK...