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YouTube Distances Themselves From PewDiePie After Anti-Semitic Jokes

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YouTube Distances Themselves From PewDiePie After Anti-Semitic Jokes

After PewDiePie uploaded a video with a sign saying “Death To All Jews,” YouTube is now distancing themselves from the once highest paid YouTuber in the world.

According to Variety, YouTube has canceled the second season of Scare PewDiePie, a web series created specifically for YouTube’s premium service YouTube Red. The show centered around PewDiePie exploring video game inspired sets that the YouTuber previously played on his YouTube channel.

In addition, YouTube will cut PewDiePie from their “Google Preferred” advertising service. Google Preferred lists the 12 different listings of packages of channels. These channels are the most popular channels among U.S. 18 to 34-year-olds. As a result, YouTubers that are listed in this premium service can earn more money from higher paying advertisers. Also, brands can advertise on the most popular channels on the video streaming network.

As a result of these news changes, PewDiePie’s income will take a hit following his “Death to All Jews” video. However, the YouTuber will still be able to make money from his other videos on the platform.

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LOS ANGELES – OCT 28: Felix Kjellberg at the “Ender’s Game” Los Angeles Premiere at TCL Chinese Theater on October 28, 2013, in Los Angeles, CA (Helga Esteb / Shutterstock, Inc.)

YouTube’s decision to cut ties with the PewDiePIe comes after Disney’s Maker Studios, severed their relationship with the YouTuber over his anti-Semitic jokes. The video that got him in trouble involved two men hired from the freelancing website Fiverr who were told to hold a sign saying “Death to All Jews.”

While Scare PewDiePie season two was announced last year, users can still watch old videos from Scare PewDiePie season one online.

Pewdiepie addressed the controversy on Tumblr.

“I think it’s important to say something and I want to make one thing clear: I am in no way supporting any kind of hateful attitudes.”

Pewdiepie added, “I make videos for my audience. I think of the content that I create as entertainment, and not a place for any serious political commentary.”

Disney Cuts Ties With PewDiePie After Posting a “Death to All Jews” Video

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Disney Cuts Ties With PewDiePie After Posting a “Death to All Jews” Video

Disney’s Maker Studios has ended their deal with one of the most popular YouTubers of all time, Pewdiepie.

Why did Maker Studios break their relationship with Pewdiepie?

Apparently, the YouTuber posted a video on January 11th for which he paid two men to hold a sign that said, “Death To all Jews.”

In the “Death to All Jews” video, Pewdiepie hired people through the freelancer website Fiverr. Pewdiepie reportedly said: “I didn’t think they would actually do it.”

However, the two Indian gentlemen later apologized, “we really don’t know what the message meant when making the video.” But, that did not stop Fiverr from banning the two men. Pewdiepie has called for the freelancing service to un-ban the two Indian men from Fiverr. But, Fivver does not look like they will be unbanning the two gentlemen any time soon.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Pewdiepie worked independently, but this video was too much for the company.

“Although Felix has created a following by being provocative and irreverent, he clearly went too far in this case and the resulting videos are inappropriate,” said a spokeswoman for Maker Studios.

PewDiePie’s history of Anti-semitic jokes

PewDiePie has posted nine videos with anti-Semitic content since August, according to the WSJ. Three of the videos have been taken down. One of the videos featured a man dressed as Jesus saying, “Hitler did absolutely nothing wrong.”

Pewdiepie addressed the controversy on Tumblr. He said, “I think it’s important to say something and I want to make one thing clear: I am in no way supporting any kind of hateful attitudes.”

Pewdiepie added, “I make videos for my audience. I think of the content that I create as entertainment, and not a place for any serious political commentary. I know my audience understand that and that is why they come to my channel. Though this was not my intention, I understand that these jokes were ultimately offensive.”

What is Maker Studios?

Disney acquired Maker Studios three years ago for $675 million. Then in 2016, Pewdiepie threatened to leave the company. But, the studio allowed for him to create his own network called Revelmode, which is an entertainment media platform for him to create content.

Who is PewDiePie?

There’s no denying how popular PewDiePie is. The Swedish Youtuber became the most subscribed user on YouTube by 2013 and by 2017, his channel has had over 14 billion video views.

Facebook Soccer? Facebook Partners with Univision to Stream Liga MX Soccer Games

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Facebook Soccer? Facebook Partners with Univision to Stream Liga MX Soccer Games

Facebook is setting their eyes on live sports. Via a partnership with Univision, Facebook will begin streaming 46 games from Mexico’s soccer league, Liga MX to Facebook users in the United States.

“Now Facebook represents the next wave of TV and, given its scale, they are an ideal partner to distribute our Liga MX matches in English,” said Tonia O’Connor, Univision’s president of content distribution stated in a statement.

Univision’s deal with Facebook will allow for the network to reach a new and younger audience as well as experimenting with live sports on a social media platform. Also, it could help expand into a new market as the game will be available in English.

The games will first launch this Sunday and will continue through the playoffs. However, the games will not feature ads. But, this may not last forever. Facebook is currently experimenting with commercial breaks within live videos. As a result, Facebook will begin to split the advertising revenue with their partners.

Facebook’s Dan Reed said in a statement, “Sports are inherently social, with the power to build and connect communities around the world. This aligns closely with our mission, and we feel Facebook is a natural home for sports content, including live games.”

“We plan to bring fans more live games from a variety of sports in the Video tab, and will collaborate closely with our partners to do so in a way that supports their business goals,” Reed added.

To access and watch the games, users can just click Facebook’s video tab.

Facebook’s partnership with Univision is not the social media company’s first foray into live sports. Last summer, Facebook streamed several U.S. basketball games and a soccer match between Manchester United and Everton.

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CHIANGMAI, THAILAND – MARCH 22, 2016: Photo of iPhone device with Twitter app running (GongTo / Shutterstock, Inc.)

Facebook is not the only social media company interested in streaming sports live. Twitter announced premium live video by obtaining the rights to 10 NFL Thursday night games. Since then, Twitter has landed deals with the NBA for two original programs, the NHL for weekly games, and the MLB for several weekly games.

Study: Men Are At a Higher Risk of a Heart Attack After a Snowstorm

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Study: Men Are At a Higher Risk of a Heart Attack After a Snowstorm

A new Candian study suggests men are at a higher risk of a heart attack following a major snowstorm.

Researchers studied periods without any snow and compared it to heavy snowfall. Scientists discovered after about 8 inches of snow; men are 16% more likely to have a heart attack and 34% more likely to die from a heart attack.

What about women? Fortunately, researchers did not find a correlation between snowfall and heart attacks in women.

Researchers analyzed decades worth of data from patients hospitalized in Quebec, Canada. To determine the relationships, researchers examined over 120,000 hospital admissions and nearly 70,00 deaths from heart attacks in Quebec between 1981 and 2014. Researchers also found 62% of all hospital admissions were men and men accounted for 57% of deaths.

Dr. Nathalie Auger of the University of Montreal was the lead author of the study. Dr. Auger explained that both how much snowfall and the duration of the snow storm was linked to an increased risk of heart attack for men.

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January 7, 2017. East Village, Manhattan, NYC. Man shoveling snow in front of his business. (ginamcleanphoto / Shutterstock, Inc.)

Researchers are not sure why men are more likely to have a heart attack. However, researchers believe it is due to snow shoveling.

“We suspect that shovelling was the main mechanism linking snowfall with MI. Men are potentially more likely than women to shovel, particularly after heavy snowfalls,” researchers explained in the study. “Snow shovelling is a demanding cardiovascular exercise requiring more than 75% of the maximum heart rate, particularly with heavy loads.”

“Snow shovelling is a demanding cardiovascular exercise requiring more than 75% of the maximum heart rate, particularly with heavy loads.”

But, the heart attacks could also be attributed to exposure to cold weather. Scientist pointed out that exposure to cold temperatures causes arrhythmia and breathing cold air has the possibility of reducing blood flow to the heart, which can also cause a heart attack.

Google Adds New Social Features to their Maps App

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Google Adds New Social Features to their Maps App

Google’s new update is making their Maps app more social and is becoming more than just a way to find the nearest coffee shop.

Google Maps product manager, Zach Maier, announced on Monday that users are now able to create lists of their favorite places, places they wish to go and then share those lists with friends who are also using Google Maps.

“Starting today, you can create lists of places, share your lists with others, and follow the lists your friends and family share with you — without ever leaving the Google Maps app,” Maier said.

How does Google’s new Maps feature work?

Maps users open the app on their iPhone or Android smartphone and then tap on a particular location. Users then tap on the Save icon, and it will add the spot to several lists, including Favorites or Want to Go.

Also, users can create their personalized lists. To find their lists, people can visit their Your Places feature on the side menu and click the Saved tab.

Ultimately, Maps is allowing users to personalize the app and make the feature more than just an app that provides directions.

“Because sharing is caring, we made it easy to share lists like “Best Views in SF” via text, email, social networks and popular messaging apps,” said Maier. “Whenever friends and family come to town, tap the share button to get a link and start flexing your local knowledge muscles. Once you send a link to your out-of-towners, they can tap “Follow” to pull up the list from Your Places whenever they need it.”

“Whenever friends and family come to town, tap the share button to get a link and start flexing your local knowledge muscles. Once you send a link to your out-of-towners, they can tap “Follow” to pull up the list from Your Places whenever they need it.”

Google says the lists can be seen and shared across any platform including smartphones and desktop users. Also, users can download maps just in case they are using the app when they do not have an Internet connection.

Google’s shift into social media

This new feature highlights how Google is focusing on adding new features to their Maps app. Last month, Google announced Maps users are now able to book an Uber through the app. But, don’t forget about Google+, last month the social media giant announced new updates to the platform.

Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Fake News is “Killing People’s Minds”

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Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Fake News is “Killing People’s Minds”

Even though the Presidential election is over, the problem of fake news has not gone anywhere. In a recent interview, Apple CEO Tim Cook is focusing on stopping false reports.

“All of us technology companies need to create some tools that help diminish the volume of fake news,” Cook said in an interview with the Daily Telegraph.

“There has to be a massive campaign. We have to think through every demographic,” Cook said.

Tim Cook added that the proliferation of fake news “killing people’s minds.” The issue is that reliable news stories are written to persuade people and are difficult for readers to recognized as true.

Remember when the Pope supported Trump for President? It was an entirely false news story that quickly went viral on Facebook just weeks before election day.

“We are going through this period right here where unfortunately some of the people that are winning are the people that spend their time trying to get the most clicks, not tell the most truth,” Cook said in the interview.

Facebook has suffered the biggest burden of the fake news controversy, where the social networking platform has quickly become the home of viral news media. Since then, the social media company has rolled out several new tools and initiatives to flag stories that are believed to be fake and allow for them to be reviewed by fact-checkers.

However, Cook is calling for more extreme measures. “Too many of us are just in the complain category right now and haven’t figured out what to do,” he said. “We need the modern version of a public-service announcement campaign. It can be done quickly if there is a will.”

This news comes after Wikipedia banned Daily Mail as a reliable source and as researchers discover new ways to spot and stop fake news from going viral.

How President Donald Trump is Disrupting the News Business

Reginald Edward
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How President Donald Trump is Disrupting the News Business

In the month of November 2016 nearly every source of news put out articles, posts, etc. stating what the media got wrong about predictions of the US Presidential elections; the Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Press Club, Fortune, and CNN just to mention a few.

Pollsters believe there has been too much of an emphasis on the demographics of the country; which means perhaps they relied too much on the Hispanic voter to turn out and vote. They further believe they under-sampled non-college-educated Whites, a group that President Trump appealed to and got their support. They also questioned the premise that voters will be completely honest with the people asking them questions who happen to be total strangers.

As the media struggles to fill the 24-hour news cycle, there seems to be more and more acceptance of “alternative facts.” Alternative facts as defined by Sean Spicer, White House Press Secretary & Communications Director, and Kellyanne Conway, Counselor to the President. As a result, the Washington Post has an occasional feature on what Presidential Trump got wrong on Twitter in any given week. There focus will be fact checking.

For example, Trump tweeted on January 2nd about the murder rate in Chicago:

However, Chicago’s murder rate was not a record setting number. It was high but not record setting. There were 762 deaths, according to the Chicago Police Department. In the 1990’s Chicago was at an all time high rate for murders but the city was then facing gang activity and the drug activities that go along with the gang culture.

In the 1920s and 30’s, fascism controlled the conversation. Hence we have been reading and hearing comparisons to President Trump. Yes, President Trump has wrestled the discussion away from the media, and labeled it as “fake news, ” but control was the media’s to lose.  Having the ability to go directly to most of your audience through social media has put the President out in front of the press.

Where does the media go from here on out? Fact checking, getting the story right, truth telling, have always been cornerstone ideas of a free press; staying away from name calling and labeling of people and groups would be good for the order.

Verizon Now Offers an Unlimited Data Plan

Reginald Edward
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Verizon Now Offers an Unlimited Data Plan

Worried about going over on your data? If so, then I have some great news for you. Verizon is bringing back their unlimited data plan starting tomorrow. According to a CNBC report, Verizon will sell these new unlimited plans for $80 per month for a single user or $45 per line on a family plan. However, the company points out that if you use over 22GB of data in a month, Verizon will “prioritize usage behind other customers in the event of network congestion.”

It is important to note that Verizon has canceled their unlimited data plans for new customers six years. In fact, last July, Verizon announced they would be removing users who used more than 100GB of data each month off of their unlimited plans. Then, last September, Verizon CFO Fred Shammo said at a conference, “At the end of the day, people don’t need unlimited plans.” All of which illustrates the company’s changing stance on unlimited data packages.

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NEW-YORK – CIRCA MARCH 2016: woman taking a selfie in Manhattan at evening. Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City (Sorbis / Shutterstock, Inc.)

How does this new unlimited plan compare to Verizon’s competitors?

Well, AT&T offers unlimited data plans for $100 per month and for every additional line it will cost $40 per month. However, it is important to highlight the fact that to qualify for this package you must sign up for both DirecTV or U-Verse. Meanwhile, Sprint offers an unlimited package for $90 per month for five lines. T-Mobile offers an unlimited package for $160/month for four lines.

How is Verizon marketing this new package? Verizon is calling their new unlimited package launch: “You asked. We answered.”

Twitter Stock Falls as “Trump Bump” Fails to Make Twitter Great Again

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Twitter Stock Falls as “Trump Bump” Fails to Make Twitter Great Again

Twitter reported their slowest revenue growth since it went public in 2013. Consequently, share prices fell more than 10% on Thursday on market apprehension Facebook, Google, and the upcoming IPO release of Snapchat are controlling the advertising market.

Revenue from advertising dropped from 2015 and a 4% year to year rise was below analysts predictions.

Also, many believed Donald Trump’s frequent use of Twitter would help increase the number of Twitter users on the social media app. However, the fourth quarter earnings report reveals that did not help.

Twitter has struggled to take their social media platform and turn into a growing business. The lack of revenue growth led to the end of the Vine app. Consequently, many financial markets assumed a Twitter sale was on the table, but no one has taken a single bite yet.

Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey told analysts on Thursday that Twitter was investing in ways to engage with advertisers.

“It will take time to show the results we all want to see, and we’re moving forward aggressively. The whole world is watching Twitter,” he said.

It is important to note that revenue growth for Twitter is the slowest it has ever been since the company first went public. Revenue for advertising in Twitter’s fourth quarter declined by .5% year-to-year to $638 million. As a result, advertising revenue will struggle to rise until the company can increase users.

Many assumed the Presidential election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump would help Twitter since the Trump frequently uses the platform.

The number of Twitter users rose to 319 million, which is less than the 319.6 million Wall Street analysts expect.

Last year, analysts assumed Salesforce.com Inc or Walt Disney Co. would purchase Twitter but, that never came to fruition.

Late last year, Twitter announced they planned on shutting down the Vine app. Vine helped launched the careers of several social media stars who left the app to promote their lifestyles, short videos, and audience on Twitter’s competing social networks including Instagram and YouTube.

Travelers’ Password Collection Proposal Raises Alarms

Jonathan Antonio
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Travelers’ Password Collection Proposal Raises Alarms

To determine if foreigners traveling to the United States should be allowed access, the U.S. may start demanding visa applicants to reveal their passwords to their social media accounts, a proposal that has many up in arms.

On Tuesday, the head of the Department of Homeland Security said, “If they don’t want to give us the information, then they don’t come.”

Kelly discussed the proposal during a congressional hearing when asked about how the department was examining visa applicants’ social media accounts. Kelly said it was “very hard to truly vet” the visa applicants from the “terror-prone” countries listed in Trump’s immigration ban.

Kelly said investigating the social media accounts visa applicants use and asking for their passwords will become part of the vetting process. That said, Kelly said the Department of Homeland Security is only considering this idea of obtaining social media account passwords.

However, late last year, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection began asking foreign visitors traveling under a visa waiver program to provide their social media account IDs as an option and not a requirement. Ultimately, U.S. authorities are hoping that by obtaining social media passwords it will help them identify “nefarious activity”.

Free-speech advocates said the U.S. might use the information to keep certain individuals out of the country unfairly. For instance, Michael Macleod-Ball, the chief of staff with the American Civil Liberties Union of the Washington Legislative office, argued the U.S. could ban someone from entering the country based on their political affiliation.

“The issue is what information are they (U.S. border agents) looking for, and how are they interpreting it,” he said. “We’ve had all kinds of concerns over the ambiguities.”

Robert McCaw, the government affairs department director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said: “The price for admission into the United States shouldn’t mean giving up your online life.”

McCaw added: “Do you remember every email account, or Facebook account, or every message board you signed up for?” he asked. “If you forgot to disclose one, wouldn’t you be lying to a federal agency?”

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