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Oil companies are hiring TikTok influencers to court young people (www.washingtonpost.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Kbin is having thumbnail caching issues lately, and will assign thumbnails from other posts that were submitted around the same time. I feel like it's been happening for a week or two now.

@ernest, plz

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is disgusting. It tricked me to click a Washington post article!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Man, you got catfished by the Washington post haha.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@ernest, here's a nsfw screenshot in case it doesn't appear for you. https://i.imgur.com/il0uZC4.png

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That's not good at all.