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		<title>By hiding hoaxes, Facebook hovers between publisher and platform</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2015 01:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carmel DeAmicis]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you're driven bonkers by the fake viral news stories that proliferate on your Facebook feed, usually posted by that girl you went to high school or your excitable uncle in Vermont,&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>When content becomes a virus, the viral scientists ultimately win</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2014 20:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mathew Ingram]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emerson Spartz started creating viral content websites when he was 12, and now he runs a company that specializes in understanding how content spreads, and why -- something more media companies&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>MemeTV wants to bring meme-worthy TV clips to Tumblr and Reddit</title>
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		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/12/04/memetv-wants-to-bring-meme-worthy-tv-clips-to-tumblr-and-reddit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2014 13:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Janko Roettgers]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you watch something funny on TV. You grab your remote control, press a button, and seconds later, that scene arrives in an app on your phone. You edit it down&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>BuzzFeed says social rules and it is bigger than most TV networks</title>
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		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/11/24/buzzfeed-says-social-rules-and-it-is-bigger-than-most-tv-networks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2014 23:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mathew Ingram]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent presentation, BuzzFeed reaches more millennial video viewers than most of the major U.S. television networks, and it gets five times as much traffic from social as it&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the murky world of social media marketing</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/11/05/welcome-to-the-murky-world-of-social-media-marketing/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/11/05/welcome-to-the-murky-world-of-social-media-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2014 20:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carmel DeAmicis]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The firm that implied it started the #AlexfromTarget meme now says it was just part of a chain reaction. So was this a naturally spreading viral phenomenon?]]></description>
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		<title>The Ice Bucket challenge goes viral in Asia with the help of Weibo, China&#8217;s Twitter</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/08/28/the-ice-bucket-challenge-goes-viral-in-asia-with-the-help-of-weibo-chinas-twitter/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/08/28/the-ice-bucket-challenge-goes-viral-in-asia-with-the-help-of-weibo-chinas-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2014 18:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carmel DeAmicis]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Twitter and Facebook blocked in China, the Ice Bucket Challenge is still managing to go viral, with the help of Chinese social network Weibo.]]></description>
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		<title>Do we really need more sites for up-voting viral content? The Independent seems to think so</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/07/31/do-we-really-need-more-sites-for-up-voting-viral-content-the-independent-seems-to-think-so/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/07/31/do-we-really-need-more-sites-for-up-voting-viral-content-the-independent-seems-to-think-so/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 22:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mathew Ingram]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might think the market for viral clickbait sites is already saturated, but The Independent newspaper in Britain has launched its own version anyway, called i100 -- complete with celebrity gossip,&#8230;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The existential question at the heart of Upworthy: Is viral clickbait okay if it brings attention to something worthwhile?</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/06/13/the-existential-question-at-the-heart-of-upworthy-is-viral-clickbait-okay-if-it-brings-attention-to-something-worthwhile/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/06/13/the-existential-question-at-the-heart-of-upworthy-is-viral-clickbait-okay-if-it-brings-attention-to-something-worthwhile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mathew Ingram]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Upworthy often gets lumped in with creators of cheap clickbait content like ViralNova, but the company's editorial director says it is driven by a different mission: to use social tools to&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s getting harder to tell what&#8217;s satire these days, and The Onion&#8217;s new site Clickhole isn&#8217;t helping</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/06/12/its-getting-harder-to-tell-whats-satire-anymore-and-the-onions-new-site-clickhole-isnt-helping/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/06/12/its-getting-harder-to-tell-whats-satire-anymore-and-the-onions-new-site-clickhole-isnt-helping/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 19:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mathew Ingram]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clickhole is the latest offering from the satirical news site The Onion, and it's designed to parody the kind of dumbed-down lists, quizzes and viral clickbait used by other media sites&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The seven most interesting things BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti said to Felix Salmon in his massive interview</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/06/11/the-seven-most-interesting-things-buzzfeed-founder-jonah-peretti-said-to-felix-salmon-in-his-massive-interview/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/06/11/the-seven-most-interesting-things-buzzfeed-founder-jonah-peretti-said-to-felix-salmon-in-his-massive-interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2014 23:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mathew Ingram]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a series of interviews, BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti talked with blogger Felix Salmon about the rise of Huffington Post, the evolution of BuzzFeed and the future of media. It's really&#8230;]]></description>
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