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This is Defector, a new sports blog and media company. We made this place together, we own it together, we run it together. Without access, without favor, without discretion, and without interference.

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The Defector Crewneck Sweatshirt Is Back In Stock

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Alex Sujong Laughlin

A photo showing an ear bud resting on the screen of a smartphone showing the Spotify music app.

Music Apps Illustrations

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If You Love Podcasts, Dump Spotify

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Chris Thompson

A basketball trophy from the City of Hoover.

Media Meltdowns

Innocent Misunderstanding Turns Youth Hoops Trophy Presentation Into Hell Of Online Outrage

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Patrick Redford

AUSTIN, TEXAS - MARCH 15: Mark Zuckerberg, via video, speaks at Into the Metaverse: Creators, Commerce and Connection during the 2022 SXSW Conference and Festivals at Austin Convention Center on March 15, 2022 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Samantha Burkardt/Getty Images for SXSW)

Into the Metaverse: Creators, Commerce and Connection – 2022 SXSW Conference and Festivals

Meta Will Continue Burning Billions Of Dollars Until Something Happens


<p>Annie Rauwerda is a writer and comedian from Michigan. She loves Wikipedia, digital archives, and her cat.</p>


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Annie Rauwerda

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Life's Rich Pageant

In Search Of A Hot Pink Bitch Named Breakfast

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(From L to R) Roger Riffard, Lise Granvel, Armand Babel, Jean-Pierre Dutour, Catherine Sotha, Romain Bouteille, Leo Campion, Jacques Prevert and Jacques Barbier look at the IBM computer which will find the title of the new play written by Romain Bouteille (4thR with glasses), on November 13, 1965 in Paris. (Photo by - / AFP) (

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Elder Wisdom

Here Is How The Defector Staff Uses Social Media

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 28: CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg appears on a monitor as he testifies remotely during the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing 'Does Section 230's Sweeping Immunity Enable Big Tech Bad Behavior?', on Capitol Hill, October 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey; CEO of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google LLC, Sundar Pichai; and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg all testified virtually at the hearing. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act guarantees that tech companies can not be sued for content on their platforms, but the Justice Department has suggested limiting this legislation. (Photo by Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

Big Tech CEO’s Testify Before Senate On Section 230 Immunity

Meta Is Desperate

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David Roth

An animatronic dog about to be crushed into oblivion in Meta's upsetting Super Bowl ad.

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Facebook/Meta Asks: “Wouldn’t It Be Nice To Die?”


<p>Kat Brewster is a PhD candidate in Informatics at UC Irvine. Researching the internet (sad parts only).</p>


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Kat Brewster

Workers haul part of a fibre optic cable onto the shore at the Kenyan port town of Mombasa on June 12, 2009. An undersea fibre optic cable bringing broadband Internet connectivity to east Africa, reached the Kenyan coast from the United Arab Emirates on Friday, the president said. The East Africa Marine Systems (TEAMS) fibre optic submarine cable project is a joint venture of the Kenyan government and Emirates Telecommunication Technology (Etisalat) and a consortium of local investors. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)

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How The Internet Works

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Alyssa Thomas of the Connecticut Sun is guarded by the Atlanta Dream

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The League For Obsessives And For No One Else

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