If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. If you’re anything like me, and you’ve built your “For You” page brick by brick, then there are two things guaranteed to pop up: BookTok recs and Serena …
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Want to check a Discord message, comment on a Reddit thread, or visit a porn site? Well, if you live in the U.K., all of those things are possible, as soon as you hand over some ID. The Online Safety Act, which went into effect there on July 25, requires …
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Social media websites were ablaze Friday night with baseless wishcasting about how President Donald Trump may have quietly died, after the president had a relatively quiet few days and had nothing listed on his planned schedule for the weekend. On Saturday morning, a photo was released showing Trump getting ready …
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Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is flush with cash after the president signed his so-called Big Beautiful Bill, so it should probably come as no surprise that the agency has decided to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on new trucks to showcase in social media posts. The …
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Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, which this week praised Adolf Hitler and began using antisemitic dog whistles, said Saturday it would abandon its “Hitler fanfic.” But it lied about creating a nauseating sexual post about Linda Yaccarino, who was CEO of X Corp until Wednesday, when she resigned. The xAI chatbot, …
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On Tuesday, Elon Musk‘s Grok chatbot ran wild on X, posting antisemitic comments, praising Adolf Hitler, and eventually referring to itself as “MechaHitler” before its ability to respond to users on the platform was disabled. The incident — apparently the result of a system prompt to “not shy away from …
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Although there are plenty of people on Elon Musk‘s X, Truth Social, and any number of other social media platforms who agree with J.D. Vance‘s transphobic rhetoric, the vice president decided to venture elsewhere for a victory lap following a Supreme Court ruling Wednesday that upheld the constitutionality of aTennessee …
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This article contains a major spoiler for the 2024 film Conclave. Susan Bin is not a Catholic. She tells Rolling Stone that she’s been to a single Mass service in her life, “and that’s a long story.” But she’s engaged with the church from an academic perspective as someone who …
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M y For You Page is coming to life. I’m in the back of the content creator collective AMP’s official RV, shuttling through the outskirts of Atlanta on our way to the studio. Like in the clips that inundate my feeds, each member brings a specific vibe: Duke Dennis possesses …
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Lady Gaga shattered the record for the highest attended concert by a female artist in history with a free show at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, with a staggering crowd of more than 2 million catching her first live performance in Brazil since 2012. What the pop …
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