Social Media Faux Pas

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let's talk about what we're going to actually address today. Okay, so today we're going to talk about some some mistakes people have made utilizing social media in its various forms and social networking. I see, so I thought I thought before we actually get into any cases, we can kind of talk a little bit about why this has become a problem sort of from an armchair psychology way right, good because I only I went to the school of armchair psychology. Yeah, yeah, I I have a degree in

lazy boy psychiatry actually, so I can. I never mind anyway. So what my theory about why social media and social networking has given rise to a lot of people making goofy mistakes is that it allows you to voice your thoughts to essentially a global audience almost immediately allows you nay, I say, encourages you to do this. It tasks me, um it, Oh there's something going on I should write about that. Now I have had a thought, let me express it to everyone I know and to people I

don't know as well. Yeah, especially with things like like cell phones and smartphones tying into this technology, it's really given us the opportunity to express a thought almost instantaneously. Yes, and in some cases, depending on what it is that you're doing, I would say that it, uh, you're you're trying to scoop everyone else. If you see something happening that that could be uh, you know, m historical event or just something compelling where you'd like to, you know,

get the jump on everyone else. Tweeting it's like, hey, there goes somebody famous down the sidewalk. I should tweet that, right, And also it gives you this feeling that, uh, you know, it's not that far removed from text messaging, right, but when you're seeing a text message, you're sending it to a specific person, it's not going out to the public at large, and you get this idea. It's kind of

like when you're chatting with friends. You know, you don't expect the things you say to friends, as long as it's not directly about them or their significant others. You don't expect that stuff to come back and kick you in the butt. True, right, like you can get with your friends and complain about your job. That's that's true. And it's funny because you figure, well, I don't know you do, but some people might think, you know, hey, I've only got twenty three followers. Only those twenty three

people are going to read my Twitter account. But unless you've locked it down in your privacy settings, that's not the case necessarily. And you know, the Library of Congress is archiving these things, so there's a public records, a public record of what you're doing, at least on Twitter. But but This is the case for various venues, not just Twitter, but we're also going to talk about Facebook

and probably YouTube, and there's even a Craigslist story in here. Really, yeah, I don't know that when you're talking about yes you do, Oh, yes I do, Yes you do, it's funny. Okay. So we've got some story is to share about some fairly famous or at least infamous misuses of social networking. And really the reason why we're doing this it's kind of

a cautionary tale, right. It's letting people know you need to be careful with what you say on the Internet because it can have real life consequences further down the road,

even if you were just being silly or joking. And I can say from personal experience, I mean I've been guilty of sending something on Twitter or posting posting something on Facebook that I intended to be expressed one way, but due to either of my failing because I worded it incorrectly or because of the the way people inferred what I meant, it kind of um didn't go the

way I hadn't anticipated. It also does not help that if you get angry, you know, you should make sure that you're as far away from a computer or smartphone as humanly possible, because you will your your inner sir, your inner editor tends to take little breaks whenever you get ticked off, and the next thing you know, you're sending out ah an obscenity laden tweet that particularly points the finger at specific individuals in your life, and then

you will have a reckoning. So, um, should we tell everyone which tweet it was that made us think this would be a good time to do this episode? Go for it? So fashion designer Kenneth Cole. And and now we don't really need to say anything else because this is pretty close in proximity to when we're recording it, and I'll probably release fairly close to that too. You. Um, Kenneth Cole has a history of trying to demonstrate that he's with it. He knows what's going on in the world.

He pays attention to world events. Yeah, and if you don't know who Kenneth Cole is, he's a fashion designer. Didn't I say a fashion designer? You probably did and I just zoned out. Um, I haven't had my coffee yet, so if I if I missed it anyway, that's good

to point out Uh, well, he's uh. He apparently is uh one of the people at his company that has access to his company's Twitter account, or at least he used to Yeah, well, or or somebody tweeted and and attributed it to him because they put their um uh, they put their initials casey by by this, so we assume that it is in fact kennethic goal and he did in fact apologize for it later. But um as the uh, I guess is it safe to call it

a revolution in Egypt? A lot of Egyptian people call it a revolution, so I guess if they're the authorities on this um they a few days after the protests had begun in Egypt, Mr Cole apparently quoted tweeted and I quote millions are in uproar in Cairo in hashtag Cairo rememor is they heard our new spring collection is now available online at and put the r L right now.

Using the hashtag Cairo means that if you were to use Twitter search to find out the latest information of what was going on in Cairo and use that hashtag, this would be one of the messages that would pull up, depending on you know, how long after you were looking it up because there was a lot of stuff happening, right, So I mean clearly that that list would be filling

up quickly. But it means that this, this promotional tweet would appear in the middle of all these messages that were about social change, and a lot of people thought that this was in bad taste, and Chris You pointed out that it was also a case of just incredibly poor timing, because not only was it in poor taste, just to start with um, when Kenneth Cole posted this message, it was when the protests were still relatively peaceful, right, And so it happened to be hosted the same day

that some of the protests began to turn violent, that there was violence enacted upon the protesters, and so then it went from poor taste to astonishingly poor taste. And here's the thing about the internet. The Internet is kind of like a big brother, right. Big brothers tend to, you know, bully their their younger siblings around a little

bit every now and then. But if someone else picks on that younger sibling, big brother gets really mad and then may lash out in a way that is not necessarily equivalent to whatever the slight was so in other words, if you were to insult my little sister and I have one, I might punch you in the mush and uh. And so the Internet punched Kenneth Cole in the mush

so hard. There were tons of of parody and satirical tweets that came out, supposedly attributed to Kenneth Cole that were about other major events being belittled, essentially as part of a marketing scheme. Um. And as Chris said, Kenneth Cole himself actually apologized on Facebook. I might add, and I have the quote for that if you would like me to read it. I apologize to everyone who was offended by my insensitive tweet about the situation in Egypt.

I've dedicated my life to raising awareness about serious social issues, and in hindsight, my attempt at humor regarding a nation liberating themselves against oppression was poorly timed and absolutely inappropriate. So you have to admit he did not deflect this

in any way. He accepted responsibility, which that's an admirable thing, and we should all remember that there are times when some of us will make a joke about a particularly sensitive topic without fully considering the implications of that joke.

I've done it in the past, but pretty much everyone has, right, It's it's one thing to to do this, however, when you're around a couple of your friends by seeing a news event on TV and making that joke, versus broadcasting it on Twitter to the world, including a link a much bigger forum too, you know, because then only is it a joke, it's a marketing ploy, right, So yeah, it was definitely a bad choice. He apologized for it. Um, I'd say that most of the fallout has pretty much

died down about around the time we're recording this. It's been it's been a more than a week since, a couple of weeks since uh that happened. But um, but yeah, he was. He was raked over the virtual coals for quite some time for that, and that's that was really what kind of precipitated this discussion. Now, not not everything we're going to talk about here is necessarily something that gets someone fired or gets them in trouble with their friends.

In some cases, it's just something that's bizarre and awkward, And I wanted to do one of those just to kind of give you the idea of what can happen when taken to the extreme. Before I, before I really get into this, this is about David Prager, who is an executive with Revision three. Uh. Now, I have never spoken with David. I have not met David, but I know people who do know David, and they all say that he's a great guy and is just a you know,

a cool cat. That's the deal with David. Um. Now, David did get a little bit of a heat put on him. A lot of jokes were made at his expense for something that he did on Twitter a couple of years ago. Um. He was the victim of a home invasion, more or less, and rather than calling the police, he tweeted about it at length. I would like to read to you a selection of the tweets he wrote, keeping in mind, I cut out a lot of them, so there when you sit there and think, wow, this

guy tweeted a lot. That's about maybe sixty percent of what he actually said. So here's how it starts. Okay, maybe I should lock my door. I swear a random dude just walked into my bathroom. And I can't believe I haven't freaked out next, and I can't believe I'm tweeting about it while he's still here. I wonder if he's sleepwalking or if maybe I should freak out. Then okay, he's still in the bathroom. And now I'm thinking a combo of hobo and drunk and sleepwalking dude. He seems

late twenties. What next? Next? Should I call the cops like you guys have recommended, find a blunt object before opening the door. My gut tells me he's harmless. Next, but I could be wrong about the harmless assumption. Next, Okay, about to make a move, putting shoes on first, Thank god he tweeted that. Next, Okay, have weapon if I need it, but don't plan on any confrontation with it. About to go in Next, Okay, still haven't done anything. He is still in there, Gonna set up a U

stream now I think stand by. So then he starts to live stream the home invasion with a webcam. If you haven't been watching my youth stream, the dude passed out in my bathroom and I just dragged him out. Next, I think the drama is over. In truder is out door is locked. I think I finally need some sleep,

and that that's the conclusion. Keep in mind. Like I said, I cut out about the tweets he sent during that that whole thing, Now, David David got a little bit of joking at his expense for rather than reacting to a possible home invasion in a way that most of us would, which is that we'd call the cops and perhaps lock our own bedroom door to make sure that, you know, we would remain safe, he decided to broadcast

it to the world. Uh, that's an unusual faux paw. Uh. And like I said, from everything I've heard, he's actually a pretty cool guy. So thankfully it was a peaceful resolution, I guess. And uh, maybe he locks his door now perhaps, how how anyone in this world doesn't lock their door? Of course I live in Atlanta. I can't even imagine, not like like when I watch a show like Friends where people just walk in and out of their their apartments.

I think, what world is that? I can't imagine. I would not be able to even sit down if I knew my door was unlocked. Um, but we've got some other ones. Here's here's um, here's a good way to really mess up after a great job interview. Oh Cisco Fatty, Oh yeah, you got it exactly right. Connor Riley, also known as the Connor on Twitter wrote, Cisco just offered me a job. Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San

Jose and hating the work. All right, Guys, if you interview for a job, don't slam the work immediately after the job interview. Don't sit there and say you're you're debating on whether or not you're going to accept the position, because especially if it happens to be a computer or or i T type company, because there's a chance they're gonna notice. Yes, like the guy from Cisco who wrote, who was the hiring manager, I'm sure they would love to know that you will hate the work. We hear

at Cisco are well versed in the web. Yeah, so um burn and uh And this this particular tweet also gave rise to lots of parodies and spoofs. People were joking about Cisco fatty because he was talking about the fatty paycheck. Uh. Yeah, you don't want that kind of reputation. And keep in mind, like again, he was probably thinking that he was just posting that to his friends, but because he didn't have a protected Twitter account, everyone got

to see it. Um. And then there are other ways of having social social media faue pas as well, like Skittles, Skittles, yeah, candy exactly, because not all of these are necessarily people saying stupid things online and getting in trouble. In some cases, it's a company allowing people to say stupid things. Yeah.

What Skittles did was Skittles created and a little applet on their web page that would automatically post Twitter messages that had the hashtag Skittles in them, And once people figured that out, they began to have a little bit of fun uh using these Skittles hashtag. Here's one that was posted by Baritunde Thurston, who is a comedian. This is one of the few pretty much safer work ones,

although again tasteless humor. Here we go hashtag Skittles got stuck in my mouth while I was driving, forced me to slam into orphanage, killing hundreds. I'll never eat them again. So in that case, the faux pas is a company thinking that people will be reasonable and not take advance enag of a of a system to in order to

make tasteless jokes. Uh. Lesson learned one of the major auto manufacturers here in the United States posted um UM an opportunity to make your own commercial on their website about suv s or utility vehicles, which are uh, very useful vehicles, but they also consume a lot of gas petroleum petrol um And so rather than making viral video videos that would extol the virtues of driving SUVs and o MG, aren't these fun, people started talking about how

much gas they were using and how they were destroying the planet. And I'm going to try to find the company. If not, then you can write, but don't pause the podcast now if when Jonathan's talking, I can't find it. But that reminded me of that because I had forgotten about the Skittles thing UM completely because it's been that's been a couple of years ago, hasn't it now now that we're recording in UM. But they are all sorts of other things. Politicians have been terrible about this. They um.

Of course, they've been caught tweeting and emailing and doing all kinds of things in session when they're supposed to actually be paying attention to what's going on during the

State of the Union address. Yes, UM but I was thinking of the United States representative from Michigan, Pete Hoekstra, who who was on a UH state trip to Iraq and Afghanistan, except the military would have preferred that he didn't tell people where he was, and he was tweeting about his whereabouts and saying that he had just landed in Iraq, and the Pentagon was really upset with him, for it makes protecting a public servant much more difficult

when the public servant is broadcasting his position exactly. And as we know, people in you know, everywhere in the world at least did had access to these tools are using them. So it is very likely that somebody who may have wanted to remove him from the planet was reading that right as he was tweeting it. Here's another politico who who used social networking poorly, Virginia State Senator

Jeff Frederick, member of the Republican Party. He tweeted about a Democrat named Ralph Northam who was considering uh leaving the Democratic Party. I remember this. Here's the Twitter message. Big news coming out of Senate. Apparently one dem is either switching or leaving the DEM Caucus. Negotiations for power sharing underway now if he had done this after the switch,

it wouldn't have been such a big deal. But he did it before, which gave the Democrats, who were paying attention to the internet, the opportunity to find out who was the person the person who was going to quote unquote leave the Democratic Party and put a lot of political pressure on that guy, Ralph Northam to stay a Democrat. And that is exactly what happened, which means that Jeff

Frederick managed to stick it to his own party. You know, they might have gained another uh you know, an ally, but because he got a little thumb happy on Twitter, that ended up not happening. Yeah. Actually, that's funny because according to the information I saw now that the Senate um in Virginia is has an even number of members, and so the lieutenant governor, uh, in the case of

a tie vote in the Senate, is the tiebreaker. Now, the lieutenant governor was a Republican, and if if the switch had been made, it would have been an even split down the middle, which means that if there was a vote down party lines half Democrat half Republican, the lieutenant governor, a Republican, would have been able to Basically they would have been able to do anything they needed to do down party lines, because you know that that one UH senator had switched, but leaving the Democrats at

fifty one forty nine, um prevented that from happening. So that was probably not such a good move. Actually, I'm not sure that it's there a hundred senators in Virginia, so anyway it was, or however many of there are. UM. So I was gonna say, if you are not supposed to tweet during jury duty, you should you should not tweet during jury duty or or use Facebook, or use Facebook. I'm specifically thinking about you to date show anchorman or weatherman alt Roker. Well, I like you, aut Roker. However,

you shouldn't tweet during jury duty. I don't even know this story. Can you tell me a little more? Not a lot? But he he got busted for tweeting because well, the thing is, I mean, if you're in jury duty, you're not supposed to be discussing the details of the case.

It's supposed to be quiet. Um. Then again, you don't often have media personalities and your jury pool at that at that level, because if you don't live in the United States, Mr Roker is a well known and pretty well liked, uh celebrity on one of the morning news shows Networks New Shows, and uh, yeah, I mean a lot of lots and lots of people know who he is. He's a he's a pretty personable guy and easy to follow on Twitter, and yeah, that that draws a lot

of attention. You would go, hey, how Roker's in jury duty with me and he's tweeting about it. There was a juror in the United Kingdom who uh apparently was really confused over how she should side in the case, and so she used her Facebook profile to ask her friends what she should do and essentially made a poll over whether she should give a guilty or not guilty verdict. Needless to say, the judge was not amused and she was removed from the jury pool. Uh so, yeah, that

was also not a very wise decision. I'm getting back to politicians for a second. We mentioned Craig's list briefly. I gotta I gotta tell this story though. Okay, so here's the other thing about if if you are uh if if you have decided that you are going to have an affair, first of all, shame upon you. But secondly, Uh, you might want to make sure you're not leaving a easily followable trail, or that you're talking to people who

might recognize who you are. That unfortunately happened with Christopher Lee, who was a congressman who responded to a personal ad on Craigslist of a woman who was looking for someone, and he claimed at that he was a thirty nine year old divorced lobbyist. He is actually a forty six

year old former congressman who was married and has kids. Um, And he posted he sent the lady a picture of himself, uh, making a muscle man pose, wearing no shirt at all, and that has now become sort of his image on the web, which I think probably has heard his political future, at least in the short term. Although this is America, you never know true true enough. Um, yeah, I mean that the you know, the United States has a a place where many entrepreneurs, you know, set out to strike

it rich. Like I'm thinking about Mark Cuban, who made a whole lot of money on an internet startup which went big and then he bought the Dallas Mavericks started complaining about the officiating on social media. Yeah, uh, tweeted got fined twenty five thousand dollars complaining about the refs. Yeah, yeah, sports, We've we've actually done a podcast about social media and sports and we talked about how the two don't necessarily go hand in hand and uh or how how you know.

Some teams and some um stadiums have struggled with the ability of their employees to now reach a global audience like it used to be that if you were a player or if well, players are a little different because they have access to too larger media outlets. But let's say that you're an employee with a stadium. Chances are if you were complaining about things, you were just complaining it to a small group of people and no one

really cared. But the Philadelphia Eagles Stadium cared when um UH, an employee was critic sizing the team, the Eagles team on Facebook and the the stadium uh, the stadium brass decided to fire him for that. Then, Actually, I guess Pennsylvania in general has problems with employees, sports employees and the internet. Because Andrew Kurtz, who and I love this, was a Pittsburgh pirate Peroguey mascot was fired because he criticized team management of the Pittsburgh Pirates on Facebook, he

got he got canned. So you know, if you're a paroguey just be careful about that social networking. Also, you're delicious what a spud uh, you know? And it doesn't take a parogue to make a mistake on on Twitter though, I mean, you could, you know, tweet your personal phone number to twenty one followers yikes? Like New York Times tech columnists, well well well spected tech columnist David Hog, I think I think a lot of us have accidentally put out a public tweet when we thought we were

doing a direct message. I know I have, and I've seen others too. I remember there was there was one where it was supposed to be Oh, I remember it was pollen Storm paullen Storm, the musical group, sending a message to Neil Gaiman because they were going up to

visit Neil Gaiman. And Neil Gaiman and Poullen Storm and Jonathan Colton are all friends and Neil Gaiman's a very well known author, and paullen Storm accidentally publicly tweeted the location of the restaurant they were all going to have lunch at, and then immediately send on a message saying please don't mob us. And because it was meant to be a private message and it wasn't good times with times also not necessarily a good idea to reveal that

you were leaving your house. Um. Israel Himan uh tweeted to his I think he had around a couple of thousand followers at the time, that he was leaving his house to go on vacation for a ten hour drive, and then he tweeted later that he made it um. And then when he got home he found out that his house had been broken into. And in the interview I read and uh, I got I got a lot of my ideas from from Keymate Houstner's story at ABC News about tweet faux pause, the ones that I didn't

already know. I found some other juicy ones, and uh, this is one of them. And in the interview they did with him said, you know, my wife thinks it may have been random, but I'm not so sure. That's

a paraphrase. It wasn't exact quote, but he he essentially said that, you know, I think that maybe that was a really bad idea on my part, and yes, it it really kind of is it's it's nice to have these check in enabled systems like four squares and Wala, but you have to be really careful because you really don't know. If people know who you are on there and they know where where you live and you've said, you know, hey, I'm across the country on a business trip,

that's almost open advertising to come and get robbed. Now that being said, if you are careful about your private information online and you can't necessarily find your address online, then you're probably in okay shape. One way to test that, by the way, is to go to Google and type your address and not your name, but your address, and see if your name comes up in relation to your address.

And if so, then somewhere on the web, whether it's Facebook where you've got it public information there or somewhere else, uh, there is a link between you and your address. So

you want to make sure that those are clean. In fact, really, as a general rule, you want to kind of if you're going to be interviewing for a job or if you're entering the professional market, you really want to kind of scrub your social network stuff clean as much as possible, especially for Facebook, you know, use those privacy settings make sure that the people who have access to say, let's let's say you're using Facebook to have fun with your friends.

Let's let's also say that if you're going to do that, make sure your privacy settings are set to a point where not just anyone could log on and see the photo of you, you know, drinking alcohol with your shirt off and you know, uh uh a funny but obscene word written across your chest. That's not something that your your, your,

your future employer is going to find very impressive. In most cases, I will use the qualifier in most cases because who knows I did make a joke the other day that one day, the same people who are posting these irresponsible pictures of themselves on Facebook without any privacy settings, someday they will be the people in charge. And that's when social moray's will crumble, institutions will fall, zombies will eyes,

and Ghostbusters three will be in theaters. Thank you, So, I mean, they're There are tons of other examples, but we're gonna have to kind of wrap this up. I did want to mention a few times, just because you do make a mistake, or let's not even call it a mistake. Let's say that you're just expressing your opinion, because there are lots of cases where people were either fired or were um uh, were harassed just for expressing an opinion on these social networking sites, not necessarily an

uninformed opinion, um and not. It doesn't always turn out badly, and we do have to walk a fine line between making sure that we don't we're that we're not irresponsible online and making sure that our freedom of speech and our freedom of expression remains protected. You know, there's a there's a balance there. We're not telling you don't say what you're thinking online. We're just saying think about it first and think about the potential consequences before it's saying it.

And here's what I would close with. In Australia, there was have you heard of the Facebook six um? You know, I'm not sure that I have. So in Australia, there

was the their corrections systems systems. So the prison system in Australia UM was going through some some trouble and some of the hundreds of employees actually joined a Facebook group where they could have discussions about the system, the politics within the system, the troubles they perceived, the potential solutions really a place to kind of not just suggest things,

but to gripe and grouse. I mean everyone occasionally needs to do that, right, just to go home and get it out vent and say, God, it was just such a bad day at work and blah blah blah blah. Not me because I love my job, but everyone else.

Uh So, Anyway, the the commissioner for the Corrective Services Department in Australia UH singled out six particular employees among the hundreds that were using this Facebook group and said that they were using language that was public bullying and so started to make the move to have them terminated

from their positions. Uh. The the six ended up having a suit against the Corrective Services Department and six months later they won the suit, which essentially said that no, you can't fire them because they were criticizing the department. And uh but I mean that's just another indication that there are times where where if you express your opinion

there could be consequences. Now, hopefully if it's something like this case and you have you have actual, you know, case to support your your perspective, it'll all turn out all right. But that's six months out of your life. So again, it's the balance between being able to speak your mind and knowing that there could be potential consequences further down the road. So there's an element of bravery

there too. I mean, I'm sure that the people in Egypt who were using Twitter and Facebook in order to criticize the government and to organize protests, they were doing that. I'm sure with the knowledge that if things went poorly, it could really come to haunt them later on. But but they showed courage in that case. But there's a difference between showing courage and a protest and calling your employer a jerk, right, So just make sure you know

that difference, because sometimes I don't. By the way, just to follow up, I never did find the the SUV company, So I'm sure somebody if you would like to tell us on Facebook who that was. I can't remember for the life of me who it was. Um, And I looked at the outroker thing because I just basically pulled it from my list. Um, he was actually taking pictures

and posting pictures of the prospective jurors. He said he got permission and U and the the court basically said he was okay because somebody told him it was okay, but it really wasn't okay to do that. But someone had told him it was okay, so they weren't. It's like, well, you know, you got told something. It isn't incorrect, but you were actually told that, so it's not your fault. Even so, I don't do it. I can't imagine being

the person who told him, oh, sure you can do that. Yeah, and I I don't think i'd want to have the pictures, but yes, that is. That is the more specific information about about what he was doing. I'm sorry I didn't have that earlier. I was just grabbing all kinds of crazy things and I thought, oh, that's interesting. Yeah, like

we said, there are a lot more stories here. I mean, there's stories about companies that laid off, you know, more than a dozen employees, for creating a Facebook pro Facebook group page to talk about something or other. Ones of a lot of sports ones. There are a lot of politician ones. There's the entire there's an entire sub genre

for teachers. Because of course, teachers, you know, they're held to a very specific kind of standard and should they have anything in their social media profiles that is somewhat uh below that standard. They could suffer for it, and there's not a whole lot of sympathy offered to them from most school boards, I would say, and uh oh.

And then there's the guy from best Buy who was fired and then rehired by best Buy for creating the YouTube video of the cartoon where it's the customer who comes in wanting to buy an iPhone and the the best Buy representative is trying to convince the customer that the EVO is a superior product. That was the one that kind of launched all the the that that series of videos of all the cartoons with the robotic voices that wanted an iPhone. You know that kind of thing,

I want an iPhone? Yes, exactly that video. There's that guy too. So this does span things well beyond Twitter and Facebook. Guys, if you have any favorite stories, or if you have a story of what happened to you or to maybe someone you know who perhaps used Twitter or Facebook in a moment of absent mindedness, let's say,

and you want to share it. First of all, keep it clean, folks, but you can let us know on Facebook or Twitter are handle there is text stuff h s W. Or you can shoot us an email That address is tech stuff at how stuff works dot com, and Chris and I will talk to you again, hopefully when we think about it first really soon. For more on this and thousands of other topics, visit how stuff works dot com. To learn more about the podcast, click on the podcast icon in the upper right corner of

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