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Virtual Land Just Sold For 22,500 MANA In Decentraland

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $59,625, which is 5.45x the current floor price of 3.19 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) ($59,625 USD). The collection consists of over 97,000 plots of land –– at the current moment each plot Land parcels are 16m x 16m, or 52…

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Virtual Land Just Sold For 34,000 MANA In Decentraland

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $90,100, which is 8.24x the current floor price of 3.19 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) ($90,100 USD). The collection consists of over 97,000 plots of land –– at the current moment each plot Land parcels are 16m x 16m, or 52…

Benzinga

Metaverse Land Just Sold For $10,730 (3 ETH) In The SandBox

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $10,730, which is 1.38x the current floor price of 2.239 Ether (CRYPTO: ETH). The estate consists of 166,464 plots of land –– each plot is 2,500 square feet in the metaverse.

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This Plot Of Digital Land Just Sold For $11,734 In ETH In The SandBox

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $11,734, which is 1.51x the current floor price of 2.239 Ether (CRYPTO: ETH). The estate consists of 166,464 plots of land –– each plot is 2,500 square feet in the metaverse.

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Metaverse Land Just Sold For $20,769 (6 ETH) In The SandBox

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $20,769, which is 2.68x the current floor price of 2.239 Ether (CRYPTO: ETH). The estate consists of 166,464 plots of land –– each plot is 2,500 square feet in the metaverse.

Benzinga

Gardai warn of ‘new common fad’ on Irish roads leading to fines

Officers from the Waterford, Kilkenny and Carlow division posted about the dangerous trend on Facebook on Friday afternoon

Irish Mirror

Disney hysteria moves to violent calls

The new Republican war on LGBTQ right is a full-blown "Satanic panic"-style frenzy of urban legends — and violence

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NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

The Independent UK

EK Chinese takeaway loved by generations turns off woks for last time

But the family who run the eatery have hinted that the Marlboro in Westwood could return in some form 'one day'

Daily Record

Lanarkshire tennis club's ambitious plans fall through after funding setback

The club had hoped the site would be developed to become a community hub.

Daily Record

Facebook's Algorithmic Bug Subjected Content To Integrity Risks

A group of Facebook rebranded Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB) engineers identified a "massive ranking failure" that exposed up to half of all News Feed views to "integrity risks" over the past six months, the Verge reports. In October, the engineers first noticed the issue when a sudden surge of misinformation began flowing through…

Benzinga

How social media affects children at different ages – and how to protect them

A report from the UK’s communications regulator Ofcom confirms children are avid social media users.

The Conversation

Zuckerberg helped fund the 2020 elections. Now Republicans seek to ban future grants

When the coronavirus pandemic began in the midst of the 2020 presidential campaign season, elections officials across the U.S. faced the massive expense of buying everything from face masks for poll workers to ballot counting machines to handle a surge in vote by mail.

Tribune News Service

Husband has to be collected by wife after he had 'one too many pink gins' - and was so drunk he headbutted car window TWICE

His wife shared the hilarious footage on Facebook, racking up more than 32,000 shares

Manchester Evening News

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Facebook's latest faceplants

A fresh wave of self-inflicted troubles for the social networking giant came to light this week.

Asharq Al-Awsat

WWF Report Says Online Wildlife Trade on Rise in Myanmar

A report by the World Wildlife Fund shows illegal purchases of wildlife online are growing in Myanmar in a threat both to public health and to endangered species. The report issued Friday found that enforcement of bans on such transactions has weakened amid political turmoil following a 2021 military takeover.…

Daily Mirror

Mum finds family had been scammed for holiday while on drive ready to leave

Emma Reynolds and her family had their bags packed ready for the trip to the cottage with a hot tub in Blackpool, Lancashire, when they discovered the heartbreaking truth

Manchester Evening News

Mum's warning after being tricked by Blackpool holiday cottage scam on Facebook

The scam saw Becky Reynolds lose £100 - but she could have lost up to £350

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Mum's warning over Facebook Blackpool holiday scam after booking getaway

The mum spotted what she thought was a "good deal" on a Facebook advertisement

Asharq Al-Awsat

Tunisia’s President Rules Out Early Elections after Dissolving Parliament

Tunisia's parliamentary elections won't be held within the next three months, President Kais Saied said late on Thursday during a meeting with Prime Minister Najla Bouden, according to a Facebook post by the president's office. Saied issued a decree on Wednesday dissolving parliament, which has been suspended since last year,…

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Internal Bug Promoted Problematic Content on Facebook

Content identified as misleading or problematic were mistakenly prioritized in users' Facebook feeds recently, thanks to a software bug that took six months to fix, according to tech site The Verge. Facebook disputed the report, which was published Thursday, saying that it "vastly overstated what this bug was because ultimately…

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Meta says pivot to video is working as it shoves Reels in front of users

Stop trying to make Reels happen.

The Independent UK

WWF report says online wildlife trade on rise in Myanmar

A report by the World Wildlife Fund shows illegal trading in wildlife online is growing in Myanmar in a threat both to public health and to endangered species

Reuters

Tunisia's president says elections won't be held after three months

Tunisia's parliamentary elections won't be held after three months, president Kais Saied said late on Thursday during a meeting with Prime Minister Najla Bouden, according to a post on Facebook by the president's office.

ABC News

Margaret River music retreat organisers defiant against local council over 'illegal' gatherings

The organisers of a WA music event take a stand against the local shire council, which says their presence in the region is troubling locals and constitutes illegal activity.

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