This week, Katy Perry tweeted that “social media is trash” and “the decline of human civilization.” Unsurprisingly, she caused a massive furore. However, if she quit social media tomorrow, her career wouldn’t suffer one bit. Her ultimate product is her music, which is promoted through music platforms, traditional airplay and …
Read More »Pakistan shuts down social media for hours, after days of violent anti-France protests
On Friday, the Interior Ministry ordered the telecommunications authority to “completely” cut off access to Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, and Telegram until 3pm local time (11:00 GMT), said Khurram Mehran, a spokesman for the media regulator, without giving any further details. “In order to maintain public order and safety, access …
Read More »‘Falsifying history’: VICE media flogged for publishing Cambodia genocide victims’ photos with SMILES photoshopped on their faces
VICE’s interview with Matt Loughrey, originally published on Friday, contained images from Cambodia’s Tuol Sleng prison, also known as S21, where thousands of people were tortured and killed between 1975 and 1979. However, the photographs were not only colorized, but also edited, with the artist adding a fake smile to …
Read More »Rules for thee, not for moi? Probe launched over French media reports on ‘secret dinners for ministers’ that flouted Covid rules
French cuisine may be a national treasure, but last week it led to a national scandal following media claims that wealthy aficionados have been partaking in it secretly and in violation of Covid-19 restrictions. Some of the alleged rule-breakers may even hold senior government positions. The furor started on Friday …
Read More »China mulls new bourse to lure overseas-listed firms – media
According to people with knowledge of the matter, the country’s State Council has asked the top securities regulator to lead studies on how to design the exchange that would target Chinese firms listed in offshore markets. The government hopes the initiative would also lure marquee international firms such as Apple …
Read More »Media identify Capitol ramming suspect as black male, follower of radical Nation of Islam as his FB page promptly gets wiped
Green allegedly drove a car into security barriers outside the US Capitol on Friday afternoon, injuring two Capitol Police officers, one fatally. Police say he was shot by the officers as he left his vehicle and lunged at them with a knife. Despite their investigation being in its early stages, …
Read More »I can’t believe it’s not April Fools’! 5 times the media’s BS went beyond parody this year
Google may have canceled its usual April Fools’ pranks this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, but that hasn’t stopped the fest of the world trying to pull the wool over the public’s eyes. From Volkswagen rebranding itself as ‘Voltswagen’ to promote electric cars, to an Australian police department announcing …
Read More »NASA alters its Mars project page after Chinese media spot Taiwan listed as a country & hint at mass boycott
The menu of discord is part of NASA’s Send Your Names to Mars project, which allows individuals around the world to reserve personalized microchips for inclusion in the next US mission to Mars, scheduled for 2026. Among other things, it asked the applicant to choose their country of origin – …
Read More »Ruh roh? Cheerleading coverage of Biden shows both media and US have gone to the dogs
There is an interesting phrase in the English language for something that has deteriorated or fallen apart: “gone to the dogs.” Whatever its origin or provenance, it now literally applies to the news agencies and major outlets that interrupted their regular fawning over President Joe Biden’s bold, transformative agenda to …
Read More »Tara Reade: ‘Enemy’ leader or dissident like me, Democrat media’s playbook is the same – demonize, dehumanize, delegitimize
“Nothing would fundamentally change” if he got elected, Joe Biden told a group of billionaires at a fundraising event during the 2020 presidential campaign. Like the saying goes, when someone tells you who they are, believe them. As I stood up to tell my own history with Joe Biden, his …
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