Ben Collins

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Senior reporter, dystopia beat, @NBCNews.

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Tweet May 12, 2023

Thread of new reporting: For the last couple of weeks, if you searched "cat" on Twitter, the search box would autocomplete to "cat in a blender." The video you would see when you clicked through appeared to show a kitten being slaughtered. How did

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Tweet Mar 31, 2023

Every few weeks, #DiedSuddenly trends. It tries to attach every public medical event to the COVID vaccine. It's great branding for the anti-vaccine movement, tied to the viral film Died Suddenly. It's also not true. twitter.com/oneunderscore__/statu

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Tweet Oct 4, 2022

For those of you asking: Yes, I do think this site can and will change pretty dramatically if Musk gets full control over it. No, there is no immediate replacement. If it gets done early enough, based on the people he's aligned with, yes, it could

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Tweet Jul 19, 2022

Today's #GoogleSheets tip wasn't ever meant to be a tip. I was just trying to scrape some data for another tip... But creating the formula was so interesting (and, dare I say, fun! 😜) that I decided to share it instead. Buckle up... We're in for a

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Tweet Feb 28, 2022

Quick thread: I want you all to meet Vladimir Bondarenko. He’s a blogger from Kiev who really hates the Ukrainian government. He also doesn’t exist, according to Facebook. He’s an invention of a Russian troll farm targeting Ukraine. His face was

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