News organizations’ willingness to republish viral images of sexual assault can have a negative impact on victims.
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Internet Pranksters Win a Taylor Swift Concert for School for the Deaf
But Taylor gets the last laugh.
Mountain Dew’s ‘Dub the Dew’ Online Poll Goes Horribly Wrong
Hackers struck a promotional website for the soft drink, and chaos ensued.
Burger King Employee Busted by 4Chan for Stepping on Lettuce
Users of the online bulletin board 4chan have banded together to track down an anonymous Burger King employee who posted a photo of himself stepping in buckets of lettuce about to be served to unwitting customers.
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Can an Internet Meme Be Considered ‘Racial Intimidation’?
A group of fans at a high-school football game did something tasteless on Friday night. And now it’s all over the Internet — where their idea started in the first place.
Unlucky Date: Online Dating Prank Fails to Form ‘Involuntary Flashmob’
Call it the curse of Friday the 13th. A few poor online daters were conned into showing up to non-existent dates. But at the core, the joke was on the organizers.
It’s Guy Fawkes Day: What Does That Mean?
Today is Guy Fawkes Day! Awesome! Wait… what does that mean? Do we get presents?
The Bieber-YouTube-Porn Hack: Are Hackers Getting Meaner?
Hackers just got a little meaner.
UPDATE: North Korea Wins! Justin Bieber to Pyongyang?
With an astounding 659,141 votes North Korea claims the top prize: Justin Bieber will take his My World Tour to the secretive, Communist-led nation. Or will he?