Drew Afualo’s phone — much like her career — is blowing up. “Sorry, hold on,” she says on set for a photoshoot as she turns her attention back to her stream of notifications in the first official trailer for The Comment Section, her popular internet culture-based podcast that will move …
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Twitter‘s verification flag has changed once again, making legacy verified accounts and Twitter Blue subscribers virtually indistinguishable — and harder to publicly shame. The lumping together of blue checks comes days after Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced the company would begin phasing out “legacy” verified checkmarks beginning on April 1. …
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The murder trial of Lori Vallow Daybell, 49, which began with jury selection on Monday in Boise, Idaho, has all the makings of a media firestorm. The deceased include two of her three children: Tylee Ashlyn Ryan, who was 16 when she died, and adopted son Joshua Jaxon “J.J.” Vallow, …
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The alleged April 1 apocalypse for “legacy” Twitter users came and went without the mass purge of blue checkmarks, but one notable account didn’t make it out unscathed: In a probable spite move by Elon Musk, the New York Times — after making clear they would not pay for Twitter …
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Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan will be released from custody and moved to house arrest, a Romanian judge ruled Friday, March 31, according to the BBC. The controversial men’s rights personality, along with his brother and two associates — Georgiana Naghel and Luaana Radu — have been detained since …
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A jury has found former internet troll Douglass Mackey guilty of violating people’s constitutional right to vote by disseminating memes encouraging Democrats to vote via text in the 2016 election. The decision comes after more than four days of deliberations. During the two-week trial, the prosecution presented testimony by MicroChip, …
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Tennis players from Russia and Belarus will be allowed to compete at Wimbledon 2023 as neutrals after being fully banned from the tournament last year following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As neutrals, Russian and Belarusian athletes won’t have flags shown next to their names, nor will their national anthems be …
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Friday, March 31, marks the Transgender Day of Visibility, an international celebration of transgender people and a day of awareness of the harassment and danger trans individuals can face. In honor of the day, the LGBTQ+ non-profit The Trevor Project will release its first episode of Sharing Space, a series …
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The man who fatally shot 58 people at the Route 91 Harvest festival on Oct. 1, 2017, was into Hitler and other mass killers, according to new documents released by the FBI. The records paint a picture of 64-year-old Stephen Paddock as a recluse who became increasingly interested in guns …
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On Thursday, following years of speculation, a grand jury in New York voted to indict former President Donald Trump. The charges stem from a $130,000 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. Daniels claims she had an affair with Trump, which Trump has denied. The indictment …
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