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Oct 18, 2019
Why the primal urge to belong and a 76-year-old psychological theory still shapes the membership of online communities that we see today
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Oct 18, 2019
I do know that social media has descended into chaos.
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Oct 18, 2019
Snap's stock has had a fantastic run in 2019, and some traders are betting that hot streak continues following quarterly results.
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Oct 17, 2019
Diversity in advertising and marketing is impactful for every industry, but cosmetics might just be the best case study for embracing inclusion.
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Oct 17, 2019
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke to a crowd of students, academics and journalists at Georgetown University on Thursday amid a growing swell of criticism for the way Facebook handles misinformation, political advertising, and false claims on the network.
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Oct 17, 2019
Hughes has been an outspoken critic of Facebook, the company he helped start.
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Oct 16, 2019
A tropical system could drench parts of the Gulf Coast including, ironically, Alabama. Here's the latest information.
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Oct 16, 2019
That's basically the question Twitter will ask people who want to view a tweet by world leaders (and they obviously mean President Trump) who violate their rules.
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Oct 16, 2019
Thanks to advancements in AI, phone trees and miscommunications at fast food drive-thrus may not be around for much longer.
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Oct 16, 2019
Their stamps of approval are meant to shore up the Vermont senator's campaign.
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Oct 16, 2019
Security researchers warn that the "largest-scale sextortion campaign" they've ever seen might be using your computer to distribute sexual blackmail demands. Here's what you need to know.
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Oct 16, 2019
Security researchers warn that the "largest-scale sextortion campaign" they've ever seen might be using your computer to distribute sexual blackmail demands. Here's what you need to know.
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Oct 16, 2019
There is a difference between using a social network to send an electoral program, and using it to spread lies. One simple way to solve the problem would be for social networks to ban electoral advertising until they are able to find a way to prevent themselves being used to spread disinformation.
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Oct 15, 2019
Organizers are already looking for free alternatives, and many are blaming the change on WeWork's recent woes.
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Oct 15, 2019
In 2016, an infamous video chat session with Mark Zuckerberg revealed how the famous founder had a piece of tape over his webcam.
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Oct 15, 2019
The war on fake news is intensifying, and recent controversy from Trump, Twitter and Facebook has made it more difficult to weed out false claims. New papers from MIT tackle our current detection methods and bring new weapons to the war on fake news.
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Oct 15, 2019
There is no such thing as "earthquake weather."
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Oct 15, 2019
"And now we're Instagram FRIENDS too. HI INSTAGRAM ," the actress wrote on her first-ever post. Within an hour, more than 600,000 people liked the post and 140,000 people followed her.
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Oct 15, 2019
The British government appears to be drawing back slightly from its previous hardline stance on censoring online content.
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Oct 14, 2019
One recent example: A report this week suggests bots are responsible for campaigns related to e-cigarettes, including crafting the posts themselves, increasing the likes and follows, and inflating audience engagement so that it looks like there is more interest.
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Oct 14, 2019
If you are still playing Fortnite then you may have noticed the latest live event. But what does it mean for our own existence? What is life?
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Oct 14, 2019
From the online markets for banking, education, publishing, artistic productions and crafts, there is no shortage for uses of the internet for marketing freelance skills to the larger world market, irrespective of national boundaries and customs.
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Oct 14, 2019
A small number of firms have also been using Facebook and other social media sites to more indirectly manipulate gamblers into visiting online casinos and gambling websites.
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Oct 14, 2019
A small number of firms have also been using Facebook and other social media sites to more indirectly manipulate gamblers into visiting online casinos and gambling websites.
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Oct 14, 2019
Here comes Lumen, a Tinder-like dating app aimed at the over-50 demographic with some features that should asague the concerns put forth by its contemporaries.
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Oct 11, 2019
This week, Japanese police charged a man with assault, after he used his victim's Instagram selfies-and in particular the reflection in her eyes-to pinpoint her local train station.
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Oct 11, 2019
The US Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence just released Volume 2 of its report on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election. This one describes how the Russians used social media to influence the US presidential election to help Trump and hurt Clinton.
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Oct 10, 2019
After 2 years of research with a team of world-class PhD's, data scientists and cyber experts, L1ght has developed a platform utilizing deep learning to analyze text, images, video, voice and sound in real-time as it aims to define the "Anti-Toxicity" category.
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Oct 10, 2019
Oct. 11 is International Day Of the Girl, and one modern donation platform is making it as seamless as possible for Twitter's 126 million daily active users to support a multitude of charities supporting girls worldwide.
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Oct 09, 2019
The video, later spread on platforms frequented by white supremacists, extends a trend of hate crimes broadcast live on social networks. .
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Oct 09, 2019
Twitter has apologised for allowing advertisers to target ads using the email addresses and phone numbers provided by users for account security.
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Oct 08, 2019
In case you missed it, here are a few hot topics and takeaways to keep in mind.
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Oct 08, 2019
"I'm humbled by South Park's parody," says Bierman. "We've always said in order to mainstream marijuana, in order to build the mainstream cannabis brand, in order be open and welcoming enough for new people - the cannabis users of tomorrow… you've got to become relevant. That's what a brand is."
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Oct 08, 2019
After someone superimposes the face of a president or celebrity onto someone else's body (often in a pornographic movie), they can upload them to Facebook or any other social media platform.
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Oct 08, 2019
After someone superimposes the face of a president or celebrity onto someone else's body (often in a pornographic movie), they can upload them to Facebook or any other social media platform.
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Oct 08, 2019
Emmy-nominated actress Amy Brenneman is launching her new podcast, The Challengers, talking with her husband, director Brad Silberling, about receiving the phone call no one wants. In his case, it was news that his previous fiancee, actress Rebecca Schaefer, had been murdered by an obsessed fan.
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Oct 08, 2019
YouPorn, the website you visit right after lunch when your brain blood moves to your stomach, is introducing a few new features to enhance your porn browsing experience.
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Oct 08, 2019
YouPorn, the website you visit right after lunch when your brain blood moves to your stomach, is introducing a few new features to enhance your porn browsing experience.
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Oct 08, 2019
Over the past two years, I have seen people take "social media breaks" due to the stress caused by online engagement.
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Oct 08, 2019
Donor To Donor fights to bring attention to the growing deficit of more than 100,000 patients currently in need of a kidney around the U.S.
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Oct 08, 2019
Your personal brand has moved online. You need to aware of - and deliberately managing - your virtual brand so you can achieve your goals. Follow these proven rules.
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Oct 07, 2019
Vishal Shah, Instagram's head of product, told BuzzFeed News the Following tab wasn't used frequently and they suspect users didn't know it existed.
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Oct 07, 2019
Why aren't we routinely flying into typhoons like we do for hurricanes?
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Oct 07, 2019
Singapore's new law to combat the spread of fake news online, the Protection from Online falsehoods and Manipulation Act, allows the government to impose hefty fines on social networks and jail terms on individuals who publish anything deemed harmful to public order.
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Oct 07, 2019
If you got the impression that McDonald's had a split personality, you'd be right.
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Oct 07, 2019
Passwords were designed as a measure to ensure that only the person who was supposed to have access could gain access. What steps can people take today to further secure their accounts?
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Oct 05, 2019
Google's Project Zero team found an eavesdropping vulnerability that allowed an attacker to "listen in" on users of Signal.
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Oct 04, 2019
Facebook recently announced that more than $2 billion has been raised ‘in support of the people and causes they care about' on its platform.
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Oct 04, 2019
The industry turned to live shows as their main source of income, yet the problem with live concerts is that they place a natural limit on the number of people who can attend them.
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Oct 03, 2019
It's not everyday that an NBA great funds your company, shows off your swag at the NBA Finals, tweets about you to his 13.7M Twitter followers, and pulls you on stage at Disrupt SF, one of the most popular tech startup events, but that's exactly what's happened to AI startup, SnapTravel.
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Oct 03, 2019
Leak this: Zuckerberg live-streams internal meeting.
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Oct 03, 2019
In audio recorded during company meetings in July, Facebook CEO and cofounder Mark Zuckerberg discussed the future of the social media juggernaut with his employees.
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Oct 03, 2019
Twitter made the unusual move of taking down a video Trump tweeted featuring a Nickelback song over copyright concerns.
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Oct 03, 2019
Facebook is pushing deeper into direct messaging with a new Instagram companion app called Threads that adopts many of the popular features of rival Snapchat.
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Oct 03, 2019
Facebook is pushing deeper into direct messaging with a new Instagram companion app called Threads that adopts many of the popular features of rival Snapchat.
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Oct 03, 2019
A precedent has been set for worldwide content policing on social media.
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Oct 03, 2019
The 10th annual Social Good Summit took place on Sept. 22 at 92Y in Manhattan, with dozens of influential speakers from around the globe unifying their collective voices around the importance of climate change.
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Oct 03, 2019
Facebook, Twitter and Google are taking a 'blatantly fragmented' approach to political ad transparency, according to a new report from Privacy International.
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Oct 03, 2019
A particular axis of critique lodged against Google is directed at how this giant processes data to the extent that Google exposes links to sensitive personal information that extends beyond EU boundaries, hence EU legal jurisdiction under the EU's "right to be forgotten" privacy rule.
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Oct 02, 2019
Hurricane Lorenzo completed an extratropical transition and is now a Post-Tropical Cyclone. What does all of that mean?
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Oct 02, 2019
Can machines be creative? Can they make humans more creative? Art meets AI at the Festival of the Impossible.
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Oct 02, 2019
At Disrupt SF, a leading startup tech conference taking place this week in San Francisco, machine learning took center stage as actor and entrepreneur Joseph Gordon-Levitt addressed concerns over the data mining practices of the social media titans.
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Oct 02, 2019
At Disrupt SF, a leading startup tech conference taking place this week in San Francisco, machine learning took center stage as actor and entrepreneur Joseph Gordon-Levitt addressed concerns over the data mining practices of the social media titans.
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Oct 02, 2019
Over the weekend, Instagram created a @creators account on their platform for "helping you create on Instagram, and no we can't get you verified."
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Oct 02, 2019
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) is not mincing words. In a letter addressed to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, the Democratic presidential candidate asked the social media company to consider suspending President Donald Trump's account because his behavior regularly breaks the company's terms of service.
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Oct 02, 2019
One year after its voter registration efforts helped fuel the largest youth voter turnout in more than 25 years, DoSomething.org is gearing up to bring even more young people onto the voter rolls for the upcoming 2019 and 2020 elections.
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Oct 02, 2019
The YMCA of the USA is one of the largest nonprofits in America, and their latest video series is bringing millions of eyeballs to its core messages on YouTube.
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Oct 02, 2019
It looks like Facebook is finally catching up with the likes of Signal and Telegram by adding a self-destruct option to WhatsApp
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Oct 01, 2019
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rallied against his biggest critics, including the U.S. government and Elizabeth Warren, in newly leaked audio obtained by The Verge published on Tuesday.
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Oct 01, 2019
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rallied against his biggest critics, including the U.S. government and Elizabeth Warren, in newly leaked audio obtained by The Verge published on Tuesday.
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Oct 01, 2019
Weather and climate science involves a lot of math. Here's why.
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Oct 01, 2019
Nine in ten nonprofits around the world regularly use social media to engage their supporters and donors, according to the newly released Global NGO Tech Report produced by Nonprofit Tech For Good.
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Oct 01, 2019
Given how technology has evolved, let's take a look at some measures to implement to help improve your overall security in addition to those you love.
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Sep 30, 2019
He's spending money on the social network to fight impeachment.
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Sep 30, 2019
When it came time to review the latest microphone from Blue Microphones, the Blue Yeti X, I enlisted the help of someone whose verbal ego and budding talent was up to the task — my son Jakob, the self-deprecating, wisecracking film school student and wannabe rapper.
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Sep 30, 2019
During her debut performance during Saturday Night Live, 17-year-old singer Billie Eilish blew viewers' minds as she performed "Bad Guy" and seemingly danced on her set's walls and ceiling.
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Sep 30, 2019
A prolific hacker claims to have breached the data of more than 200 million Android and iOS social gamers. Here's what is known so far.
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Sep 30, 2019
Here are some exciting ways to work online from wherever you choose and live the dream travel life.
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Sep 30, 2019
Here are some exciting ways to work online from wherever you choose and live the dream travel life.
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Sep 29, 2019
Why the current snowstorm in the Rockies does not refute climate change.
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Sep 29, 2019
Imagine a device that could accurately decode what you're thinking in real time. It might seem like science fiction, but a team of researchers funded by Facebook were able to do it, according to a research paper published July 30 in Nature Communications.
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Sep 29, 2019
The entertainment world is at an inflection point. New business models are killing convention, even in the most unlikely places.
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Sep 29, 2019
A hype-free "101" on Hurricane Lorenzo, how unusual it is and climate change.
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Sep 29, 2019
An article by former Tumblr executive Mark Coatney uses the analogy of Public Broadcasting Television or PBS, to argue for creating a similarly not-for-profit public social network. However, is this analogy valid for a two-way medium such as a social network?
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Sep 28, 2019
Smartphones are great, but they are not the future of communication. Big technology companies know this.
That's why, with the help of the company that makes Ray-Ban and Oakley sunglasses, Facebook wants to put artificial intelligence computers on your face.
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Sep 27, 2019
This is how targeted advertising functions whereby information that we largely deem uninteresting or trivial is used to create a menu of objects, from among a larger group of online advertisers, that us our information to feed us future advertisements.
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Sep 27, 2019
Research from video technology startup VidMob showed more than one-third of the 1,000 survey respondents between the 16-45 using Instagram have bought something directly from the platform.
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Sep 27, 2019
The company will see if doing away with like counts makes people happier.
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Sep 27, 2019
Tuesday was National Voter Registration Day and while everyone was trying to register their friends and family, Michelle Obama reminded Instagram total strangers can be registered, too.
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Sep 27, 2019
Facebook, the drug we snort off the buttocks of a willing and paid for social media pit of despair, has opened us up to the psychological horror of the world around us. Now it wants all that in the virtual world of Horizon VR.
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Sep 26, 2019
How much do you value data over your privacy? This piece considers this question by examining what many consider to be the tradeoff between data access and data security.
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Sep 26, 2019
How much do you value data over your privacy? This piece considers this question by examining what many consider to be the tradeoff between data access and data security.
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Sep 26, 2019
Thirteen years after launching with a staff of one, charity:water has announced it has brought clean water to 10 million people worldwide.
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Sep 26, 2019
If you missed anything from the first day of the conference, don't worry—it's all here for you to read.
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Sep 25, 2019
Instagram is testing a new Interface design that should bring a welcome boost in battery life for owners of many high-end smartphones.
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Sep 25, 2019
The Federal Trade Commission announced Wednesday that it's suing Match Group, the parent company of leading online dating sites such as Match.com, OKCupid, and Tinder, for allegedly using fake accounts to get more people to sign up for paid subscriptions.
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Sep 25, 2019
As one of the nation's most ubiquitous nonprofits, the YMCA has given tens of millions of Americans a story to share. Now, the organization is using YouTube to boost the stories of some of its most recognizable supporters.
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Sep 25, 2019
Takeaways from Mat Zucker at the Influencer Fraudnomics Summit.
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Sep 25, 2019
Takeaways from Mat Zucker at the Influencer Fraudnomics Summit.
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Sep 25, 2019
Want to get paid to see the world? Check out these companies that will pay you to go on vacation.
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