Twitter’s head of trust and safety Ella Irwin resigned on Thursday, Reuters reported. After Elon Musk decimated the social media company’s Trust and Safety Council — which was comprised of about 100 independent civil rights leaders and advocates from around the world — the Tesla owner installed Irwin as VP. …
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Jeffrey Epstein tried to contact disgraced gymnastics physician and admitted sexual abuser Larry Nassar during his final days alive, The Associated Press reports. Reference to the letter Epstein tried to send Nassar was included in a trove of documents obtained by the AP, which offer one of the most comprehensive …
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Bill Cosby faces yet another sexual assault lawsuit, this time from a woman who accuses the disgraced comedian of drugging and raping her in 1969. Victoria Valentino, a former Playboy centerfold, filed the lawsuit Thursday in a Los Angeles County Superior Court under the one-year window allowing alleged victims of …
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For over a year, Elon Musk has railed against what he calls the “woke mind virus,” which is perhaps now best defined as anything other than far-right politics. More narrowly, the “anti-woke” culture warriors with whom Musk has found common cause are focused on antagonizing companies that appear to support …
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On Oct. 27, 2018, as worshipers gathered at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, a gunman opened fire and killed 11 people. The federal death penalty trial of the alleged shooter Robert G. Bowers, 50, began Tuesday with an audio recording of a 911 call one of the victims, …
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After exhausting every possible option, including literally trying to fleeing the country, Elizabeth Holmes is finally serving her 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors in her blood-testing startup Theranos. Since being found guilty in January 2022, the disgraced CEO has used everything from conviction appeals to her own children to …
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From Inventing Anna to a newly invented career. On Tuesday, Anna Delvey — the convicted fraudster and fake socialite who served as inspiration for Netflix’s Inventing Anna — announced that she’ll be releasing a weekly podcast and a debut single. Delvey, who’s currently on house arrest, will work with podcast …
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A royal visit to the United States in the 1980s. An assignation plot targeting Queen Elizabeth II. It’s no longer just the plot to the 1988 comedy The Naked Gun, but something the FBI was genuinely concerned about when the Queen visited the U.S. in 1983. The FBI released a …
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Daily Salinas, the Miami-area mother whose poorly reasoned complaint about “The Hill We Climb,” Amanda Gorman‘s poem for Joe Biden’s inauguration, got it restricted in an area elementary school, is now defending herself against claims of antisemitism. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reports that Salinas posted a meme to her …
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Florida Gov. and GOP presidential nominee Ron DeSantis has successfully sucked the pleasure out of many of life’s little joys, from drag brunches to Disney adult TikTok. And thanks to the passage of SB 1438, or the Protection of Children Act, DeSantis may now be bringing the ax down on …
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