Controversy as Insta account sold for $116m

Warner paid a reported $US85 million ($A116 million) for IMGN Media, which operates several brands across social media, e-sports and entertainment.

Its most well-known property is the meme-sharing Instagram account Daquan, which has 15.5 million followers.

The profile picture for Daquan's Instagram.

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Daquan’s profile picture appears to be a stock image of a young black man being told off by his mother (a mask was recently added).

But when reports of the sale started hitting the internet, some people were a little miffed to see a picture of Barak Shragai, who along with Dor Mizrahi, runs IMGN media.

$85M off digital blackface. https://t.co/liF0TZEMHe— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) September 5, 2020

Meet Daquan. pic.twitter.com/uqGS9hqvsy— key. (@keywilliamss) September 3, 2020

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Melbourne residents react with shock and fury to lockdown extension

From midnight on Sunday next week, the 8pm curfew will be pushed back an hour to 9pm (it will still cease at 5am) and the allowable outdoor exercise period will be doubled to two hours.

There will also be the introduction of a “single person bubble”, which will allow one nominated visitor if a person is living alone or a single parent with all children under 18.

On social media people have reacted to the news, with some maintaining it’s necessary if unfortunate, while others are furious and want the lockdown lifted immediately (many of them expressing themselves in ways that can’t be reproduced on a news website).

Would rather stamp out this virus than prematurely open. Glad Dan Andrews + team are making these difficult and unpopular decisions - otherwise we'd be going back into lockdowns and all this time locked down would be for nothing. #COVID19Victoria #melbournelockdown— Sam Wright (@samywamy10) September 6, 2020

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Our lockdown obsessions revealed

As public health measures involving strict lockdowns were introduced in countries around the world in March, people took to Twitter to have their say on them.

Australia tweeted about panic buying more than any other country, especially about toilet paper and limits on alcohol purchases.

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Shelves were left empty. Picture: Saeed Khan / AFP

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We also had a lot to say about decisions being made to restrict the number of mourners at funerals while hair salons remained open.

Along with the Irish, Australians were quick to label fines for breaching ambiguous new rules as “revenue raising”.

A team led by Monash machine learning researcher Caitlin Doogan created “topic models” to analyse tweets related to the implementation... ( подробнее )

‘Mess’ not even Google can understand

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) previously announced it would take Google to court over location data it allegedly continued collecting even after people thought they’d told the company to stop.

Now unsealed court documents relating to a case in the US state of Arizona have shed new light on the location settings.

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Some of the documents show allegations by the Arizona government, set out in the suit’s table of contents, that the company knew its location settings were a “mess that mislead and deceives”.

Central to that allegation are emails between Google employees (referring to themselves as “Googlers”) who admit not even they can understand the settings.

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Twerking Willy Wonka takes TikTok by storm

Yet, here we are. Thanks to Gen Z TikTok users, a cosplay of Willy Wonka (think Johnny Depp, not Gene Wilder) is going viral on the platform.

Teenager Duke Depp (Depp? Really?) has been gyrating and crotch-grabbing his way through TikTok, racking up millions of views per video.

Posting under the handle @willywonkatiktok, the grinding chocolatier has left little to the imagination and users are frothing over it.

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You asked for it, welcome to part III @willywonkatiktok ##willywonka ? Sin city - yoitzmarc

Perfectly channelling Johnny Depp’s characterisation of Wonka from the 2005 film Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, this teen’s maroon overcoat, top hat and ab flashes are just the thing TikTok users never knew they needed.

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AOC explains ‘profoundly misleading’ tweet

The Democratic National Convention (DNC) this week endorsed Joe Biden as the party’s presidential candidate to run against US President Donald Trump in November, formalising a nomination that had already been decided.

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Former Vice-President Joe Biden will now run for president on the Democratic ticket. Picture: Democratic National Convention/AFP

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Mr Biden saw off competing campaigns from the likes of Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders before the former vice-president clinched the nomination.

But on Wednesday, NBC News tried to make it look like the race was still on.

“In one of the shortest speeches of the DNC, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez did not endorse Joe Biden,” a tweet sent from the network’s account said.

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For 705 days this Australian woman has been ‘forgotten’ in an Iranian prison

Three weeks later she was stopped from flying back to Melbourne by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard after one of the people she interviewed reported her as suspicious.

Since then she’s been secretly tried and convicted of espionage and is facing a 10-year prison sentence in Iranian prisons.

Kylie Moore-Gilbert was meant to fly home to Melbourne, instead she was sent to jail. Picture: Australian Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade

It’s been more than 700 days since she was arrested and the British-Australian dual national’s friends and colleagues are tired of waiting for the “quiet diplomacy” of the Australian government to secure her release.

Letters smuggled out of Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison earlier this year “sent a really clear message that Kylie felt she was abandoned and she wanted more to be done for her,” Deakin... ( подробнее )

Picture of Chinese ambassador walking on backs of Kiribati locals sparks controversy

The picture, shared widely on social media, shows Chinese ambassador Tang Songgen visiting the island of Marakei earlier this month.

He can be seen stepping along the backs of a row of people lying on the ground while holding the hands of two women either side of him.

It comes after Kiribati suddenly switched its diplomatic alliance from Taipei in Taiwan to Beijing last September and has sparked debate given rising Chinese influence in the region.

Striking picture from Kiribati showing new Chinese Ambassador Tang Songgen welcomed off a plane. Children lying face down on the ground & ambassador is walking across them. Kiribati national anthem is "Teirake Kaini Kiribati" - “Stand up, Kiribati” pic.twitter.com/IyvAwG9Fg7— Michael Field (@MichaelFieldNZ) August 16, 2020

KIRIBATI - Event in which Chinese Ambassador Tang Songgen walked on backs of children as part of a welcome took place Friday/Saturday at Marakei, 80 km northeast... ( подробнее )

Причина последнего изменения Instagram

Facebook уже начали добавлять “от Facebook” знак отличия Instagram и WhatsApp в начале этого года, чтобы было понятнее, кто владеет приложений.

Это был также первый шаг на пути интеграции трех приложений, в каждом из которых предоставляется в форме обмена мгновенными сообщениями, в центре платформы обмена сообщениями.

Логотип Связной заменяет кнопка direct Instagram сообщения в настоящее время выкатывает для пользователей.

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Facebook теперь пошли еще дальше и заменили прямой логотип Instagram сообщение с логотипом посланник в настоящее время выкатывает для пользователей.

“Появился новый способ сообщения на Instagram,” всплывающее окно информирует пользователя, когда обновление становится доступным.

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