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Betabrand ads up, Wikipedia funds up, ACLU starts up – SFGate

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Betabrand, a San Francisco apparel startup known for its quirky designs, has a new ad campaign touting "alternative facts" about the company.

Betabrand ads up, Wikipedia funds up, ACLU starts up

Alternative ads

San Francisco apparel startup Betabrand is tweaking both the president and two larger hometown rivals in an advertising campaign touting alternative facts. The campaign, already on Facebook, goes up on billboards Friday. Another milestone for the company that invented pants. And the wheel, the company said, in a brag worthy of White House spokesman Sean Spicer.

Number of the day

$500,000

Thats how much Craigslist founder Craig Newmark is donating to help curb harassment on Wikipedia. The money from the Craig Newmark Foundation and Craigslists Charitable Fund will go toward tools for Wikipedias staff and volunteer editors to reduce harassment on the user-generated site.

ACLU goes to startup school

After raising $24 million over the weekend, the American Civil Liberties Union is joining Y Combinator, the startup accelerator that produced the likes of Airbnb and Dropbox, TechCrunch reported. Y Combinator wont take a stake in the nonprofit, but its mentors will travel to the ACLUs HQ in New York to give advice.

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February 1st, 2017

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Rihanna’s Wikipedia Page Hacked – HotNewHipHop

As she sets to embark on her acting career, Rihanna's Wikipedia page was momentarily hacked Tuesday. Before Wikipedia could rectify the situation though, her bio was riddle with a string of insults. The introduction read, "Fake singer that likes to give head, deep throat, blowjobs, handjobs and likes to [sic] other women." Concidentally, the Bajan singer is amid a growing feud withAzealia Banks.

"She likes to kiss women in the mouth ans [sic] likes to touch them a lot," the hackers wrote. "Her music is fake as and is [sic] copies from other artist like me. She has lots of problems besides like watching Elmo at night with other women in her bed together."

The spat began when thetwo artists disagreedoverCheeto Mussolini'sexecutive order to ban refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries. Rihanna protested the ban while Banks, who has nothing but love and admiration for President Trump and everything he does, lambasted RiRi. Rihanna shot back on social media, going as far asrevealingBanks' personal phone numberwhen she shared a text messagewherethe "212" rapperdisses her.In retaliation, the self-described bruja, known for allegedly sacrificing chickens, released the singer's personaldigitsin an IG post.

Speaking of psychos, the Anti diva is set to appear in Bates Motel this year. She also has a starring role in Ocean's 8 in 2018.

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January 31st, 2017

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Wikipedia jumps the gun and crowns Rafa Nadal champion in Australian Open – The Independent

Tennis starRafael Nadalwas crownedwinner of the Australian Open onWikipediaalmost an hour before the end of the match.

The victory was recorded on the websitewhen the Spanish playerhad a break of serve in the final set and seemed to have the upper hand in the fiercely contestedfinal.

It was active for almost 11 minutes before moderators revised the page. The match was subsequently won by Roger Federer.

The Swisswon the five-set thriller in Melbourne earning his 18th Grand Slam title and his first in five years.

Federer was forced to leave the court during the match to receive treatment on his right quad and came from a break down in the final set to take the crown.

He was returning from aninjury which hadsidelinedhim for six-months and beat his arch-rival at a grand slam for the first time in almost ten years.

Nadal and Federer have faced each other 34 times, nine of which have been Grand-Slam finals and their famous duel in the 2008 Wimbledon final is often noted as the greatest tennis match ever played.

The five set thrillerended with Federer winning6-4 3-6 6-1 3-6 6-3.

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January 29th, 2017

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Wikipedia briefly listed politicians and other invertebrates – Houston … – Chron.com

Politicians are sometimes called spineless. Someone had fun at House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wikipedia.

While politicians can be sometimes criticized as spineless, someone took that idea a step further. A prankster went on Wikipedia and put House Speaker Paul Ryan among the invertebrates. The posting was taken down, but not before Twitter had some fun at Ryan's expense.

>>>Click through the gallery to see how Twitter users responded to House Speaker Paul Ryan being listed among creatures with no backbone on Wikipedia.

While politicians can be sometimes criticized as spineless, someone took that idea a step further. A prankster