They've pushed to weaken its independence and effectiveness by monkeying with its structure.
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In this case, though, Facebook is not monkeying with how news is selected as "Trending," only how it's being displayed.
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I would much rather take something that someone else wrote and start monkeying with it than look at the blank screen.
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It's hard to understate what a crossroads this is for Twitter, since monkeying with its character limit changes the nature of the service.
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When I go to the polls in November, will some Guy Fawkes mask–wearing dude in Vladivostok be monkeying with my vote-o-matic?
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"We're monkeying with the very chemical foundation of these ecosystems," said Emily H. Stanley, a limnologist (freshwater ecologist) at the University of Wisconsin — Madison.
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And there are certainly other billionaires who have invested in media companies without monkeying with them: Warren Buffett has had a fondness for local newspapers.
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Monkeying with malware platforms, reverse-engineering samples, and analyzing how hacking tools work are routine activities for white hat hackers and crucial components of the defense intelligence pipeline in private industry.
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And at the end of an album so interested in monkeying with the voice and its ability to create meaning, it feels like a reminder of the simple power of a melody we can make ourselves.
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Even if you believe that Facebook isn't monkeying with the trending list or actively trying to swing the vote, the reports serve as timely reminders of the ever-increasing potential dangers of Facebook's hold on the news.
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But Manafort's attorneys countered that his tragic flaw was placing too much trust in his former right-hand man, Rick Gates, only to discover later that Gates had been stealing from him and monkeying with the company's books.
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The spouses were rattled—Franny's husband, Marvin, ill at ease out of his security-guard uniform, Fred's wife, Erma, sighing and snatching at her hair, Rose's husband, Walter, monkeying with a camera as a way of snubbing everyone else.
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Big banks, for example, had to pay more than $1 billion to settle class-action lawsuits that started in 2009 and accused them of monkeying with checking account policies to maximize the number of overdraft fees they could charge customers.
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"If you were looking to influence an election, one thing you could do is keep people from voting in a targeted county by monkeying with the e-pollbooks so people couldn't check in, which would lead to long lines and chaos at the polls," she said.
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Decades ago, he said, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) tried to experiment with ways to weaken or redirect hurricanes, but that came with major risks: "If that storm ended up hitting somebody, you were monkeying with that storm and you caused it to do that," Haus said.
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