Communications Major

Twitter shares its most popular news stories, tweets and more in a snapshot of conversations for the year.

If you're not a basketball (or sports fan), you may be forgiven for not knowing who (or what) Donald Sterling is. But, you've been seeing him trending on Twitter and in your Facebook newsfeed no doubt for the past 48 hours. He was the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team until a few hours ago when he was banned from the NBA for life due to years of racist and sexist comments. What we love about the interwebs are quick and handy guides like this one that paint the picture for us in no time flat. What you'll see if you click is not pretty. It is bigotry. 

Hoaxes and bad information are circulating online in the aftermath of the Paris attacks.

White and gold, or blue and black? The debate over the colors of a dress set off a social media conflagration that few were able to resist.