A global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide.
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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 Gillette "We Believe" ad:
Fake dislike count: 761k of…
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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 this form self-governance. It’s a strategic…
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Is Wikipedia reliable?
I ask this question because in school, students are always told "do not quote wikipedia" or that "Do not believe everything you see on Wikipedia, we are teachers and we know when something is wrong there". (The latter being more common in my case)…
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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 protection officer, has urged universities to block…
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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 true?
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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 because in a video he created during an online spat a…
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Do all Wikipedia articles lead to Philosophy?
Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in
the article text not in parenthesis or italics, and then repeat, you
will eventually end up at "Philosophy". - Randall Munroe, XKCD 903: Extended Mind (mouse-over text)
I…
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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 actually contradict the claim.
Are there any sources…
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Is Snopes a "hoax" that is "covering up" for the Obama administration?
Of all the email I get, I don't know why this one bugged me so much.
Here is an email accusing Snopes.com of deliberately "lying" and "covering up" for the Obama administration. From the look of it, this claim has been around quite a while and…
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Is the increasing availability of high speed internet pornography reducing sex crime rates?
Some early studies show that the availability of pornography does not increase the rate of sex crimes.
Research on pornography has generally been of various types (Tovar, Elias, & Chang, 1999). Probably most common are studies that involve…
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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've not been using the Internet properly. But that is…
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Is a kill switch being considered to shut down the internet?
One of my friends has been particularly upset about this. I will try to track down a serious citation of someone making this claim but have been unable to do so.
I believe there is a commission or something on cybersecurity that is looking into…
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Do more men use the Internet than women?
Long before the Internet existed, computers were women. (United States Census Bureau, courtesy of the University of Hartford)
It's a well-known trope that there are no girls on the Internet. In fact, apparently that is a "rule of the…
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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:
My job was to meet a girl, go on a few dates,…
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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 believed I think, despite the somewhat anonymous…
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