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Why Bored Ape Avatars Are Taking Over Twitter

Save this story for later. On social media, agreements are tenuous and alliances fleeting. It pays to be as incendiary as possible conflict drives more engagement than politesse or coöperation. But, at the beginning of May, Kyle Swenson, a twenty-five-year-old clothing reseller in Orlando, Florida, noticed a shift in the tone of his Twitter feed. An increasing number of accounts that he followed were changing their avatars to cartoons of apes: apes sporting sunglasses or bunny ears, apes with leopard-patterned or rainbow fur, apes smoking cigars or shooting laser beams from their eyes. Many wore blasé expressions or toothy grimaces. Some had cigarettes dangling from their mouths, or the red eyes of the deeply stoned. Amid the Twitter melee, the apes were chatting among themselves, chill and supportive. The avatars came from a Web site called Bored Ape Yacht Club, which had officially launched on April 30th, offering ten thousand unique iterations of the cartoon primates for sale a

The Daily 202: Politicians will no longer get a free pass from Facebook

The Daily 202: Politicians will no longer get a free pass from Facebook Olivier Knox On this day in 1989, Chinese soldiers and tanks crushed pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, with a death toll Western sources put in the hundreds or thousands. In a move with global ramifications for online political speech, Facebook plans to change a policy under which it generally spares toxic speech by major political figures from content-moderation rules it applies to everyone else. At issue is a rule, first unfurled in October 2016, under which the social media giant tolerates inflammatory and untrue posts from influential people on grounds they’re “newsworthy, significant, or important to the public interest even if they might otherwise violate our standards.”

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