Jews are not a monolith. And yet, for the past several decades, those in favor of Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration have mendaciously branded any criticisms of the Israeli government as antisemitism. It is a curious conflation, given how a 2021 Pew Research Center survey revealed that only 58% of Jewish adults …
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Jenna Ortega will no longer be in Scream VII. Several outlets reported that the actress will be stepping away from the Scream franchise due to alleged scheduling conflicts with the second season of Wednesday. But the new reporting arrives just one day after Spyglass Media Group — the production company …
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My new book Broken Code tells the story ofFacebook’s — now Meta‘s — long-secret work to understand how its platforms shaped its users’ behavior and rein in societal-grade harms that the outside world didn’t understand. Drawing on records gathered by whistleblower Frances Haugen and other company employees, my book reveals …
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Thirty-three states have banded together to sue Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, accusing it of building and operating platforms that have caused serious harm to young people and adolescents. The lawsuit, filed Oct. 24 in district court in Northern California, claims Meta’s platforms have “profoundly altered the psychological and …
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This week, comedian Heather McMahan’s first comedy special Son I Never Had debuted on Netflix and according to McMahan, it all started with an edible and a vision board. A few years back, McMahan says she was hungover on New Year’s Day and as corny as it might sound, she …
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“I was a casting PA on a large historical film that had hired a lot of first time extras… During the first few days of fittings, I often had to text or call the head of the extras casting with questions…I was just trying to be thorough and do my …
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Daphne, a 22-year-old marketing manager, knew it was never going to work out with her ex, Dave. There were red flags from the start, she says: Since they started dating in the spring of 2022, Dave would frequently lie about little things, “or what he would call ‘withholding the truth,’ …
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Horror fans will know him as one of the engineers from last year’s hit killer-doll movie M3GAN, while Nineties-sitcom aficionados will recognize him as Estefan from the revival seasons of Will & Grace. But to the very online, Brian Jordan Alvarez is also the mastermind behind the cult web series …
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China is behind the largest known covert propaganda operation ever identified on Facebook and Instagram, according to a new report by security researchers at Meta. Meta on Tuesday outed the authors of a four-year long influence campaign dubbed “Spamouflage Dragon,” which first appeared in 2019 to spread propaganda about Hong …
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When trans activist and actress Ts Madison was scrolling on Instagram last week, she never considered that a small circulating video from a trans TikTok creator would end in a transphobic rant from one of the internet’s biggest Black comedians. But that’s exactly what happened. On Saturday, comedian Jess Hilarious …
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