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Microsoft Discusses Offering to Buy Discord For More Than $10 Billion

By: Hayden Frost, Journalist

Discord is a communication platform (which is made for gamers) where you can chat with friends and make friends in servers, or private chats. It is very similar to skype (which Microsoft also owns)because it's a communication platform where you can share your screen and use your camera.

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What Are False News Articles Trying To Do?

By: Nathan Britton, Journalist

Sometimes politicians spread fake news about their opponent in hopes of seeming more popular and better. This is why you always check the facts before believing an article.

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How Redditors Changed and Almost Broke the Economy

By: Derek Oropeza-Obispo, Reporter

Everyone at least knows what the stock market is, for those who don't know it's when a certain company sells a part of their share an evaluation. A specific group of people called Hedge funds which...

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A New Development in Memes and Misinformation

By: Caden Mitchell, Journalist

If you don't know, memes are text, images, and videos meant to be funny or entertain. Misinformation is inaccurate information sometimes told on accident but always untrue. Memes and misinformation are very different things but memes can be the vessel for the misinformation.

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Misinformation About Covid-19 May Keep the Virus Around For Longer Than Wanted

By: Devum Agarwal , Reporter

Unfortunately, many people have been using big social media platforms to spread misinformation about the COVID-19 virus.

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How the GME Stock Skyrocketed

By: Mohammedalfatah Naji, Journalist

10 years after occupy WallStreet, another economic protest has risen, but this time it is online. The stock went from only 3 dollars in April to about 350 as of January 27th.

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GameStop Exposed The Market

By: Yerix Fuentes, Reporter

The stock market of gamestop has gone up by 12,000%.

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Instagram is Watching Us

By: Widad Khalid, Journalist

Is Instagram watching and listening to you without your permission? Does Instagram have access to all the information on our phones? Are the new terms and conditions of the app invading our privacy? Are these just rumors?

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Stock Market Influenced by Reddit Groups

By: Conner Elling, Reporter

Recently Reddit groups like Robinhood which are based around the stock market have been investing in companies and that has been causing the stock to go way up.

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The Top Apps of 2020 and 2021

By: Ryan Wells, Journalist

If you're looking for a new app, or just wondering what everyone else is using, then this article is for you.

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Why did Among Us Take off?

By: Jonathan Tabbal, Journalist

Why did Among Us take off? It all started with the lockdown.

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TikTok

By: Aiden Tran, Reporter

TikTok is a social media app created in September 2016. It has over 800 million users and has been downloaded over 2 billion times on the app store and google play.

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