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Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram and Threads, is killing a fact-check program in favor of a community-based flagging system.

The owner of the social platform X says a change to its algorithm will effectively address negative posts to improve the user experience.

When the American flag is lowered to the mid-point of flagpoles to honor someone who died, should we call it half-mast or half-staff?

I recently saw an excerpt of a blog post I was interested in. To read more, I quickly found myself in the quagmire of Substack subscriptions!

I like to wrap up the first week of a new year by checking blogging stats against the previous year. It gives me an idea of how I'm doing.

It's time to take a look at the most-read posts of 2024. No matter what I consider my best posts this year, these received the most eyes.

Every year, as our language evolves, new words and new definitions of old words are added to the dictionary. Here are my 2024 favorites.

As we wrap up the year, it's time to go back and look at what I consider my best posts of 2024. You might find them worth a read.