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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Today, a year and a half after her first solo single debuted, rising R&B star Chloë Bailey’s studio album, In Pieces, has been released. In our review, Rolling Stone contributor Mosi Reeves gives Bailey credit for “trying to turn her growing pains into prickly, sometimes enjoyable art” — but also …
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Back in the Paleolithic era of the internet, aka the late 2010s, it was highly fashionable to hate on Gwyneth Paltrow. She was a constant punchline for late-night talk show wags. Health experts would regularly profess shock and disgust at the medical misinformation Paltrow peddled on her luxury website Goop, …
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Over 1,400 tech leaders and academics including Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp have signed an open letter calling on Artificial Intelligence developers to pause training of some of their more sophisticated AI experiments, citing risks they claim could result in “loss of control of …
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No Jumper, a popular podcast whose roots are in hip-hop culture, has allegedly transitioned into a platform for white supremacy, antisemitism, and misogyny, according to a Media Matters for America investigation. The news site, which describes itself as “a progressive research center that monitors, analyzes, & corrects right-wing misinformation,” points …
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T he first call for help came before sunset on the evening of July 15, 2021. “I’m throwing up blood,” Ta’Neasha Chappell, a 23-year-old mother in pretrial detention at the Jackson County Jail in Brownstown, a small town amid the hills and farms of southern Indiana, told the staff via …
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Melissa Joan Hart spoke about helping kindergartners escape the shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville earlier this week in a tearful video shared on Instagram. Hart and her husband happened to be near the scene on Monday, while headed to the nearby school that their kids attend for a …
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An over-the-counter nasal spray version of Narcan, the medication used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, was officially approved by the Food and Drug Administration today, March 29. The move means the medication, also known as naloxone, will be available in drug stores, grocery stores, gas stations, and …
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