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Don’t lose sleep over Elon Musk’s desire to build the next Twitter

Elon Musk tweeted this weekend that he is “giving serious thought” to building his own social media platform. “Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to

Investors move from coronavirus woes to Biden wins as markets rally on Super Tuesday results

While the aftermath of Super Tuesday has left the Democratic Party riven between its more liberal and moderate wings, investors viewed last night’s results as a win for business and markets. Sha

Univision confirms it’s exploring sale of Gizmodo Media Group and The Onion

Over the weekend, word broke that Univision was planning to sell off Fusion Media, the brand portfolio containing a chunk of The Onion and various media properties purchased in a Gawker fire sale less

Elon Musk’s ‘media empire’ staffed by ex-Onion writers might be called ‘Thud!’

If you can believe anything Elon Musk tweets, then ‘Thud!’ is the name of the media venture that the multi-CEO and space person is starting up, staffed by former Onion writers he’s p

GoDaddy doubles down on ‘The Internet’ in a marketing collaboration with Onion Labs

Good news for fans of GoDaddy's Easter Egg-filled Super Bowl ad: The company has launched an entire campaign around the ad's star, "The Internet."

Facebook Gets Vice, The Onion, And More To Make “Anthology” Viral Videos For Advertisers

Facebook announced a new video ad program today called Anthology, with the stated goal of creating better Facebook video ads by teaming up advertisers and publishers. Here's how the company describ

The Onion’s ClickHole Opens Its Traffic-Baiting Maw

If you want to gorge yourself on listicles and surveys and headlines that promise things “you won’t believe” (let’s stop being so damn incredulous shall we?), there’s a n

The Onion Asks Itself ‘What Kind Of BuzzFeed Parody Are You?’ With New Website ClickHole

BuzzFeed and Upworthy are tough to parody, since they seem to cross the line into self-parody often enough, but news lampoon site The Onion is going to give it a shot anyway. The joke media giant is l

The Onion To Launch Weekly TEDTalks Competitor On YouTube: “No Mind Will Be Left Unchanged”

Early last year, fabled satirical news source, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.theonion.com/">The Onion</a>, launched a sports TV show called <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

The Onion’s Take On The HP Cloud and 4 Other Attempts At Making The Cloud Funny

Why is the cloud so hard to make funny? Do a search on YouTube. You will see songs about the cloud based upon Joni Mitchell and Vanilla Ice songs. "Cloud, Cloud Baby." Groan. Thank goodness for

Someone Please Just Make This (Update: Oh My Lord, Someone Did Make It)

<blockquote>"With funding from dozens of news outlets and media companies, the groundbreaking Outkube.com launched this week, providing an online destination where pandering and incendiary content is

The Onion, America's Finest News Source, Picks Finest Day To Debut iPad App

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/onion-ipad.jpg"> This is not a joke. <a href="http://www.theonion.com/">The Onion</a>, "America's Finest News Source" (TM), released its <a

The Onion Keeps On Embarrassing Newspapers

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/dino-163x200.jpg" width="163" height="200" /><a href="http://www.theonion.com/">The Onion</a>, America's Finest News Source and easily one of

The Onion Beats Investigative Journalism On Google News

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/nsp-215x159.jpg" width="215" height="159" /> Sometimes I actually feel sorry for old media. Blogs are taking all the page views and don't hav

Twitter: Just Make Sure You Spell Everything Wrong And Swear A Lot

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/fbo-1-215x135.jpg" width="215" height="135" />Another <a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/video/facebook_twitter_revolutionizing">winner<

Video: The Onion discovers new Google ‘opt-out’ feature: Move to a secluded village!

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/googlt.jpg" /> We start the day off with a video, because they're fun and so, so easy to embed. It's from The Onion, and it pokes fun at

Breaking: iPhone 3GI only visible to those loyal to Apple

Yes… I can see it! Oh God! God, it’s beautiful! Should have sent… a better blogger…

The Onion Finally Weighs In On The Iranian Situation "Ruining" Twitter

<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/picture-99.png" width="194" height="73" />More than a few people have left comments on our Twitter posts related to the Iranian situation wo

The Onion does what it does best, rips on the new Star Trek movie

http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/onn_embed/embedded_player.swfTrekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As ‘Fun, Watchable’ Star Trek fans are outraged!

Video: The Onion takes on Sony's New Stupid Piece Of Sh*t That Doesn't Fu*king Work

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/picture-21.jpg" alt="" />Is there truth to this satirical video from the Onion? You may want to put in your earbuds for this one or watch
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