GizModo VR

JUNE 14, 2021

YouTube updated its ads policies on Monday to ban any ads featuring gambling, alcohol, prescription drugs, and political content from prominently playing at the top of its homepage. Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Facebook’s trying to muzzle a group of academic researchers working to shine a light on the company’s notoriously opaque political-ad targeting practices. It’s threatened the team with “enforcement action” if they don’t pull the plug on the project and wipe all data gathered so far, according to a Wall Street Journal… Read more.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 5, 2021

After temporarily pausing its nationwide ban on political advertisements to allow campaign messages about the Georgia senate runoffs, Facebook abruptly reversed course on Tuesday, announcing in a blog post that the ban would resume following the election’s conclusion on Wednesday. Read more.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 28, 2020

If you look at the most popular pages on the platform from this year, you’re most likely to find pages discussing politics or the global… Read more. When I’m using Wikipedia, I’m usually spending hours getting lost in the site’s bottomless pit of random factoids for hours on end. Apparently though, this puts me in the minority.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Susan Collins of Maine and one of her political action committees, according to a press release from the Department of Justice. Three former defense contractors in Hawaii have been charged with illegal donations to Sen. The men worked for a company called Martin Defense Group, which changed its name from Navatek after… Read more.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 24, 2020

An unusually powerful volcanic eruption in 43 BCE has been linked to political upheaval on the other side of the globe, including the fall of the Roman Republic and the Ptolemaic Kingdom. Read more.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 15, 2022

On-trend with 2019's Joker , director/co-writer Matt Reeves' Gotham aims to be the darkest and grittiest of them yet by drawing on the grim politics of today. Then toward the end, the Riddler summons now-familiar images of mass shootings, white male privilege, Qanon-style social media conspiracies, and white nationalist political terrorism.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 1, 2020

You’d be excused for not following the recent brouhaha associated with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong’s announcement that the company would no longer play politics. The statement, posted to Medium on Sunday, is a doozy. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 14, 2021

Starting today, Google is issuing a pause on all political ads—as well as any ads referencing to the US Capitol siege —until “at least” January 21st, according to an email the company sent to its advertising partners that was obtained by Axios. In it, Google described taking this stance “following the unprecedented… Read more.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

It’s been a little over a week since former-President Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate in the impeachment trial surrounding his role in inciting a riot at the Capitol in January, and Google thinks it’s time we get back into the political swing of things. Read more.

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GizModo VR

MAY 12, 2021

The UK’s conservative government will ban technology companies from “discriminating” against particular political viewpoints, according to a press release about the country’s new proposed Online Safety Bill. The anti-censorship clause is just a minor part of a much larger draft bill, but will likely get attention from… Read more.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 19, 2021

Despite repeated assurances from Facebook and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, that the company would stop recommending all “political and social issue groups” in order to slow down misinformation and coordinated political violence, it didn’t really do that. Read more.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The government of Vietnam is threatening to shut down Facebook within the entire country over the social media company’s refusal to censor more local political content, according to a new report from Reuters. Facebook had previously censored some political speech on the platform to appease the Vietnamese government,… Read more.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

In a dispatch from Facebook’s newsroom released Tuesday night, corporate executives sought to downplay the role partisan discourse plays in shaping the platform, stressing that political content makes up only about 6% of users’ newsfeeds and that ranking pages by which posts receive the most engagement is not… Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 5, 2021

How many apps can you name that offer both an avenue to send unsolicited dick pics and a pathway to achieve your political dreams? Unless you’re the disgraced former New York congressman Anthony Weiner , the answer to that question is probably “one,” after Snapchat announced a new feature on Tuesday designed to help… Read more.

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Voices of VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

John Robb has a concept of Networked Tribalism, which is a result of the combination of filter bubbles, AI algorithms, and political polarization. Robb is.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Facebook and Google aren’t lifting their political ad bans soon, most likely not until Donald Trump sorts out a coup timeline concedes. Read more.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 12, 2022

Because if nothing else, the "elephant" was born a political animal. For at least the next 10 years, the SLS program is politically very, very secure, absent some sort of catastrophic failure,'' Casey Dreier, senior space policy adviser for the nonpartisan Planetary Society , told Mashable. Tweet may have been deleted.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Facebook will temporarily disable all ads focused on political and social issues after polls close on Election Day as part of an effort to “reduce opportunities for confusion or abuse,” it said Wednesday. Read more.

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JUNE 1, 2021

Far Cry 6 will have a political story after all, though it will not take any specific political stances on Cuba, according to the game's narrative director.

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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Politics and social activism has become a deal breaker in online dating.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Streaming services are the 'Wild West' for political ads, report finds.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 1, 2023

You might need to favor a certain political party, jazz up otherwise banal segments with populistic controversy, or even turn in your family member to an increasingly authoritarian government.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Taking place as an unofficial event during the SXSW 2017 festival on March 11th, this year’s event will question the impact of social and political change on the AR/VR industry. The post ‘AR/VR Austin’ 2017 to Explore Political Climate & its Impact on the VR/AR Industry appeared first on Road to VR.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 31, 2021

Far Cry 6 delivers political farce instead of satire, and that's an important distinction.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

While Road to VR doesn’t cover politics, backlash among Oculus’ developers and community has brought the issue into the VR realm. I'm dropping Oculus support from Tower Underworld Online V due to Palmer Luckey's politics. If you're not familiar with TUOV, ask me.

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GizModo VR

JULY 14, 2022

Fantasy, especially secondary world fantasy , is a genre about imagination, creating new worlds with different views of everything from culture to economics to the limits of physics, and in many respects, presuming no limitations at all. In that imagining (to paraphrase Max Gladstone ), it implies a critique , a… Read more.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 17, 2022

We see how three different women — Michelle Obama (Davis), Betty Ford (Pfeiffer), and Eleanor Roosevelt (Gillian Anderson) — inhabited the role and influenced American politics. But in splitting our time between the three of them, we lose the depth of their individual stories. That's a real shame, and the show's biggest failure.

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GizModo VR

JULY 27, 2022

The House of Mouse and its squeaky little underling Hulu have caved to Democrats’ pressure, saying they’ll be changing their ad policies so candidates can touch on issues like abortion, climate change, and the Jan. 6 insurrection, you know, just a few things voters might actually care about. Read more.

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APRIL 15, 2024

We were in different states and divisions, and I was largely out of the political loop, but when I became aware of the situation I should have made a clear and open statement of opposition to the witch hunt.” presidential election, Luckey’s comments and political interests became the subject of a bombshell article in The Daily Beast.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Last week, the House voted to strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments in large part because of what the new Georgia congresswoman posted on social media. Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 16, 2022

As Inu-Oh rocks theaters, I keep thinking about Tomona Dan-No-Ura, whose narrative ostensibly begins and ends the film. As he passes through all the stages of his life, becoming Tomoichi when he joins the Biwa priests and then Tomoari when he begins his own musical theater sect, his art becomes intimately tied to his… Read more.

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Road to VR

APRIL 23, 2024

Oculus was founded by Palmer Luckey, who was a prominent voice in the XR industry before ultimately being pushed out of Facebook over divisive politics. What eventually became the ‘Quest’ headset and ‘Horizon OS’ platform from Meta started when the company bought a VR startup called Oculus back in 2014.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 13, 2022

French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet has made some incredibly well-regarded films like Delicatessan, The City of Lost Children, and Amélie (and he also directed Alien: Resurrection , about which the less said the better), but it’s been nearly a decade since he last wrote and directed a movie. That will change this… Read more.

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Voices of VR

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Rust LTD is composed of four avant-garde artists who are experimenting with political philosophy as game design through surrealist narratives and open world sandboxes of.

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GizModo VR

JULY 23, 2022

Texas is on a roll—an energy use roll, that is. This week, amid sweltering temperatures, the power demand on the state’s grid soared to an all-time high on Wednesday , reaching 80,000 megawatts of demand. This marks the eleventh time this demand record has been broken this year alone. Read more.

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Voices of VR

OCTOBER 28, 2018

VRLA co-founder Cosmo Scharf talks about some of the deepest levels of our current socio-political and economic context, and how VR & AR can teach.

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