Uploading a photo of herself in a Stars and Stripes-style bikini, blonde stunner Spiranac captioned the image with the message “Happy 4th of July” for her fans and adding American flag emojis. “This is me before I attempted to see how many hot dogs I could eat in 10 minutes. How …
Read More »In just 5,000 posts the secretive QAnon’s ‘storm’ nearly brought down a US president, while it’s gone dark for now, what’s next?
It was after my youngest daughter, a TikTok devotee, kept asking if I’d seen the video of al the young children being rescued from slavery thanks to Donald Trump that I realised the social media storm created by QAnon had landed on our doorstep. The videos she had come across …
Read More »Friends? What friends? Instagram tests expansion of ‘suggested posts’ feature telling users what they REALLY want to see
Putting aside the temporal impossibility of looking at every single post shared by one’s Instagram friends — has anyone ever made it to the bottom of the ever-refreshing scroll of posts? — the new version promises to speckle “suggested posts” throughout the user’s feed, sometimes above posts from individuals and …
Read More »Exposing public figures’ offensive social media posts from the past isn’t about justice. It’s about envy.
It’s 2018. The annual Major League Baseball All-Star Game brings together the top 21st century stars of The Great American Pastime. Among the National League’s pitching staff is Josh Hader, relief hurler for the Milwaukee Brewers. It’s his first appearance in the mid-season celebration of the game, a landmark in …
Read More »FBI monitoring of social media posts before Jan 6 raises more questions of how much it REALLY knew prior to Capitol Hill riot
On June 21, NBC News reported on a recent court filing that raises further questions about whether the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) foresaw what happened in Washington DC on January 6 and, if so, why the agency failed to sound the alarm in good time. The document in …
Read More »Trying to skewer someone for dumb social media posts made 9 years ago as a teen is a new low for cancel culture
I don’t know about you, but I was apt to say lots of extremely dumb things as a teenager that I didn’t believe then and I certainly don’t believe now. Come to think of it, even as a fully grown if-not-exactly mature adult, I am still apt to say idiotic …
Read More »UK posts more than 4,000 new Covid-19 cases for first time in two months as infection rates creep up
It is also the third consecutive day the country has witnessed more than 3,000 new cases, although the death rate has remained relatively stable, with a further 10 fatalities within 28 days of a positive Covid test logged in the past 24 hours. Amid the uptick in cases, England’s so-called …
Read More »Israel says Hamas endangering Palestinians as IDF posts video showing militants’ rocket misfiring and landing in Gaza
In a tweet in the early hours of Thursday morning, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) posted a video accompanied by the comment, “The people of Gaza are endangered every time it happens.” This is not the first time the IDF has attempted to show the people of Gaza are endangered …
Read More »Watch out, New York? Russian space agency posts map of where Chinese rocket booster might crash
Roscosmos director Dmitry Rogozin tweeted out a map of the possible area of impact, anywhere up to 41 degrees north and south of the equator. The errant booster will re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere on May 8 at the earliest, Roscosmos said, citing current tracking information and preliminary calculations. The Long …
Read More »Facebook restores page of RT’s Redfish after brief ban over anti-fascist posts, but account remains heavily censored
The page of the award-winning Berlin-based project was restored by Facebook on Saturday. The account got deleted by the social media giant on Friday over alleged violations of its “community standards” with several posts that commemorated victims of the Holocaust, as well as celebrated an anniversary of the downfall of …
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