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Will Facebook’s name change be the makeover it needs to recover its reputation?
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Social media conglomerate Facebook will be changing its name, citing a shift in focus to the “metaverse” as the motivation. Critics of Facebook cite the company’s less-than-stellar reputation as the primary reason for the change. When dealing with a company as large as Facebook, would a change in name ever rehabilitate a ruined reputation? I…
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UPDATED: Laurier staff member placed on leave after allegedly sharing Islamophobic Facebook posts
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Trigger Warning: This article contains mentions of Islamophobia that readers may find upsetting. An employee at Wilfrid Laurier University has been placed on leave after being accused of sharing Islamophobic posts on their personal Facebook account. Laurier is conducting an internal investigation regarding the matter and has yet to release the identity of the employee.…
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Hack The North, annual software and hardware “hack-a-thon” event, comes to the UW
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From Sept. 14 to 16, the University of Waterloo hosted their annual hack-a-thon, Hack The North. The annual event brings students from all over the world to engage in a non-stop, 36 hour competition to create novel and interesting pieces of software and hardware to be assessed by a panel of judges. To kick off…
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What the Cambridge Analytica scandal means for Facebook users
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Since early last week, media coverage of the data breach that occurred at Cambridge Analytica (CA) has exploded due to a discovery that personal information from more than 50 million Facebook user accounts had been utilized for questionable means. Cambridge Analytica, a data mining and analysis company, has been targeted for criminal investigation regarding the…
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“Me too” isn’t an effective internet movement
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This Monday, my Facebook feed blew up with young women setting “me too” as their status, showing that they are a survivor of sexual harassment and/or assault. The idea behind this initiative is that if every woman shared this as their status, people would understand how large the problem of sexual violence is in…
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Thank you Trudeau for humanizing Muslim Woman
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On Nov. 8, 2016, I did something I don’t normally do: I made a brash Facebook post expressing my disgust for the results of this American election. I genuinely felt hurt that people were voting for someone I found to be a vindictive bully towards women, Muslims, Latinx, LGBTQ+, as well as those living with…
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‘Homeless in Waterloo’ page created to raise awareness
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Members of the community in the Waterloo Region have been nothing but supportive of the newly developed Homeless in Waterloo Facebook page. The overwhelmingly positive response has been encouraging for founder, fourth-year Wilfrid Laurier University business and administration student, Justin Chan. The page was started March 9 of this year, with the intention of breaking…
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An escape from Facebook
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Millennials were among the first group of people to adopt Facebook as a part of our daily lives
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Student to perform with KW Symphony
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Mason Pomeroy is the winner of the 2015 Ken Murray Concerto Competition Award of Distinction
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