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Art museums turn to OnlyFans to display nudes as social media sites censor artistic expression, but is it just canny marketing?

Leading museums in Vienna have turned to OnlyFans in a bid to circumvent social-media restrictions on institutions that exhibit nude…

3 years ago

Far-right Russian anti-feminist group Male State faces social media ban amid backlash to crusade against black people in adverts

In a statement published online and seen by local media on Tuesday, Vladislav Pozdnyakov, the founder of Male State, said…

3 years ago

Aussie PM Morrison labels social media ‘coward’s palace’ as he mulls further crackdown on IT giants

“Social media has become a coward’s palace, where people can just go on there, not say who they are, destroy…

3 years ago

Bah Blahaj! Rumors of IKEA plan to cull beloved shark plushie sends social media into frenzy

The news went viral after a UK user wrote to the IKEA UK Support Twitter account to find out why…

3 years ago

Rash tweet? Social media darling Marcus Rashford appears to be caught allowing a management company to make a Twitter post for him

Manchester United and England forward Rashford prides himself on his passion, authenticity and nice-guy brand on the platform, famously using…

3 years ago

A win for Social Democrat Scholz in German elections could be a shot in the arm for Europe’s left after a decade on the sickbed

The German election this Sunday is painfully too close to call, because such is the confluence of opinion in Deutschland…

3 years ago

Outrage flares on social media over mandate-flouting maskless Emmys while Seth Rogen jokes ‘what are we doing?’

A who’s who of Hollywood came in droves to have some fun, razzle-dazzle and celebrate successes of the entertainment industry…

3 years ago

Social media recoils as Bloomberg praises Amazon’s warehouse-based exurban ‘factory towns’ as ‘the future of working class’

The e-commerce empire founded by Jeff Bezos will offer the American working class a better option than scraping to get…

3 years ago

Social media influencers must explicitlypaid posts as advertising, top German court rules

Germany’s Federal Court of Justice reached the landmark ruling on social media advertising on Thursday. The decision, which was portrayed…

3 years ago

Here’s the chilling reality of what daily life might look like under a social-credit system in a so-called democracy

The Covid-19 crisis has given governments worldwide a golden opportunity to roll out a new system of control over their…

3 years ago