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Upworthy is a website for viral content started in March 2012 by Eli Pariser, the former executive director of MoveOn, and Peter Koechley, the former managing editor of The Onion. [1]

30 relations: AdSense, Alexis Ohanian, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, BuzzFeed, Chris Hughes, Clickbait, CoverGirl, Digiday, Eli Pariser, Entertainment, Facebook, Fast Company (magazine), Greenwashing, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Modern liberalism in the United States, MoveOn, New Enterprise Associates, New York (state), New York City, News, NewsWhip, Privately held company, Sensationalism, Skype, Spark Capital, The Onion, Unilever, United States, Viral phenomenon, WHOIS.

AdSense

Google AdSense is a program run by Google that allows publishers in the Google Network of content sites to serve automatic text, image, video, or interactive media advertisements, that are targeted to site content and audience.

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Alexis Ohanian

Alexis Kerry Ohanian (born April 24, 1983).

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), also known as the Gates Foundation, is a private foundation founded by Bill and Melinda Gates.

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BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed, Inc. is an American Internet media company based in New York City.

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Chris Hughes

Christopher Hughes (born) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded and served as spokesman for the online social directory and networking site Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Andrew McCollum.

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Clickbait

Clickbait is a website link designed to entice users to go to a certain web-page or video.

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CoverGirl

CoverGirl is an American cosmetics brand founded in Maryland, United States, by the Noxzema Chemical Company and acquired by Procter & Gamble in 1989 and later acquired by Coty, Inc. in 2016.

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Digiday

Digiday is an online trade magazine for online media founded in 2008 by Nick Friese.

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Eli Pariser

Eli Pariser (born December 17, 1980) is the chief executive of Upworthy, a website for "meaningful" viral content.

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Entertainment

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience, or gives pleasure and delight.

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Facebook

Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.

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Fast Company (magazine)

Fast Company is a monthly American business magazine published in print and online that focuses on technology, business, and design.

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Greenwashing

Greenwashing (a compound word modelled on "whitewash"), also called "green sheen", is a form of spin in which green PR or green marketing is deceptively used to promote the perception that an organization's products, aims or policies are environmentally friendly.

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John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is an American non-profit foundation dedicated to fostering "informed and engaged communities" which the foundation believes are "essential for a healthy democracy." The foundation "supports ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts." The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation began as the Knight Memorial Education Fund in 1940.

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Modern liberalism in the United States

Modern American liberalism is the dominant version of liberalism in the United States.

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MoveOn

MoveOn (formerly known as MoveOn.org) is an American progressive public policy advocacy group and political action committee.

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New Enterprise Associates

New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is an American-based venture capital firm.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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News

News is information about current events.

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NewsWhip

NewsWhip tracks how billions of people engage with stories across all social networks, using a suite of content discovery and analytics tools that help people understand and track the spread of stories across all of social media.

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Privately held company

A privately held company, private company, or close corporation is a business company owned either by non-governmental organizations or by a relatively small number of shareholders or company members which does not offer or trade its company stock (shares) to the general public on the stock market exchanges, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned and traded or exchanged privately.

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Sensationalism

Sensationalism is a type of editorial bias in mass media in which events and topics in news stories and pieces are overhyped to present biased impressions on events, which may cause a manipulation to the truth of a story.

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Skype

Skype is a telecommunications application software product that specializes in providing video chat and voice calls between computers, tablets, mobile devices, the Xbox One console, and smartwatches via the Internet and to regular telephones.

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Spark Capital

Spark Capital is a venture capital in the United States, responsible for early stage funding of numerous successful startups including Twitter, Tumblr, Oculus, Warby Parker, Cruise, Slack, and others.

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The Onion

The Onion is an American digital media company and news satire organization that publishes articles on international, national, and local news.

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Unilever

Unilever () is a British-Dutch transnational consumer goods company co-headquartered in London, United Kingdom and Rotterdam, Netherlands.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Viral phenomenon

Viral phenomena are objects or patterns that are able to replicate themselves or convert other objects into copies of themselves when these objects are exposed to them.

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WHOIS

WHOIS (pronounced as the phrase "who is") is a query and response protocol that is widely used for querying databases that store the registered users or assignees of an Internet resource, such as a domain name, an IP address block or an autonomous system, but is also used for a wider range of other information.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upworthy

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