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Mia Sato

Mia Sato

Features Writer, The Verge

Features Writer, The Verge

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    Fashion is political.

    The keffiyeh has become a symbol of the movement for Palestine, and model Bella Hadid wearing a keffiyeh-inspired dress at Cannes was a political statement. The head scarf has been banned by some government bodies.

    Clothing has always been a core part of culture — a way to communicate ideas and identities. Last summer I wrote about Palestinian embroidery (tatreez) and ongoing efforts to digitize and protect it.

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    Mia Sato
    TikTok will test a standalone content management app.

    Creators can edit and manage content, access post analytics, and view their monetization in the TikTok Studio app, the company announced today. A web version of the platform is already live.

    TikTok Studio app screengrabs showing analytics and creation tools.
    Image: TikTok
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    Mia Sato
    Here’s how bad link rot is.

    Pew research found that more than a third of webpages from 2013 are now inaccessible. 23 percent of news webpages have at least one broken link, and 54 percent of Wikipedia articles have at least one reference link going to a page that doesn’t exist anymore.

    Pew data showing that 38 percent of webpages from 2013 are no long accessible as of October 2023.
    Image: Pew Research Center
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    Eventbrite is recommending illicit “events” that violate its own rules.

    Wired found thousands of event listings that violated the platform’s policies, including pages claiming to sell drugs, escort services, and social media engagement.

    Sometimes, the recommended events were offensive or potentially harmful: pages promoting illegal drug sales were displayed next to addiction recovery events, for example.