Groucho Marx once said he’d never join a club that would have him as a member. And, if he were alive today, that’d probably include the new social media app, Clubhouse. Touted as the digital equivalent of Soho House, where luvvie communists become elitists via expensive memberships, it’s now the …
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The government currently pays to house as many as 6,000 people in hotels as they await decisions on their claims to asylum. But a joint investigation by the Observer and ITV News that private contractors hired to operate the facilities have been accused of serious abuses against their wards. The …
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As part of a long-running dispute over proposals to make “Big Tech” companies pay for news content hosted on their platforms, Facebook has blocked all access to news-related content in Australia. Described as “arrogant and disappointing” by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, the standoff – which had also involved similar threats from …
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The masturbatory media coverage that accompanied Joe Biden’s inauguration was not, it seems, a brief lapse in objectivity from America’s normally upstanding news industry. No, it was just a taste of things to come, and Valentine’s Day gave journalists another excuse to don the kneepads and service Joe and Jill …
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‘Never let a good snowstorm go to waste’ appears to be the mantra of the moment as Texas suffers through a state of emergency. Amid freak weather conditions that sent temperatures plummeting across the country, leaving some three million Texans without power, Democrats are lecturing the Republican-run state for not …
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“We will not be canceled. Welcome back to Parler,” read a post on the platform’s own account after its interim CEO Mark Meckler confirmed earlier on Monday that it is now operating via a new server. Some of the site’s 20 million users have already logged in, with the rest …
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Officially, the undercover journalism shop was “permanently suspended” – Twitter’s preferred euphemism – on Thursday because they committed “repeated violations” of the company’s “private information” policy. Apparently, their latest video featuring Facebook’s VP of Integrity Guy Rosen showed his house number. Their founder James O’Keefe had his account locked under …
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Officially, the undercover journalism shop was “permanently suspended” – Twitter’s preferred euphemism – on Thursday because they committed “repeated violations” of the company’s “private information” policy. Apparently, their latest video featuring Facebook’s VP of Integrity Guy Rosen showed his house number. Their founder James O’Keefe had his account locked under …
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China’s National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) announced the ban on Thursday, stating that the BBC’s reports “violated the requirements that news should be truthful and fair, harmed China’s national interests and undermined China’s national unity.” The “reports” in question likely refer to BBC Newsnight’s coverage of China’s Xinjiang Province, …
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China’s National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) announced the ban on Thursday, stating that the BBC’s reports “violated the requirements that news should be truthful and fair, harmed China’s national interests and undermined China’s national unity.” The “reports” in question likely refer to BBC Newsnight’s coverage of China’s Xinjiang Province, …
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