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Many of the arrests are believed to stem from comments made on Facebook, Twitter and social media as the world reacted to the atrocities. They are part of a broader French crackdown on perceived hate speech, extremism and anti-Semitism amid a government push for tougher anti-terrorism measures. Anti-semitic French comedian Dieudonné was among those detained…
Forty-eight hours after hosting a massive march under the banner of free expression, France opened a criminal investigation of a controversial French comedian for a Facebook post he wrote about the Charlie Hebdo attack, and then this morning, arrested him for that post on charges of “defending terrorism.” The comedian, Dieudonné (above), previously sought elective office in…
<![endif] Viral 01.13.15 Unreleased Beastie Boys/Nas Video Surfaces “Too Many Rappers” featuring Nas circulating on the web. A never-before-seen Beastie Boys video from 2011 leaked online this week. “Too Many Rappers,” featuring Nas, was part of the Beasties’ Hot Sauce Committee Part Two , an album that became their swan song after the 2012 death of…
Why 2014 Was Our Favorite Year Yet 13:52:52, 1/13/2015 Why 2014 Was Our Favorite Year Yet.
by Tara Culp-Ressler Posted on January 11, 2015 at 10:41 am Updated: January 12, 2015 at 2:31 pm “1 In 3 College Men In Survey Say They Would Rape A Woman If They Could Get Away With It” CREDIT: Joseph Kaczmarek/AP Images Nearly one in three college men admit they might rape a woman if they…
A dizzying number of brands, from Taco Bell to Stouffer’s to Seamless, are attempting to sound less like Fortune 500 companies and more like your 14-year-old nephew, at least on social media. According to data crunched by Brandwatch, there have been nearly 17,000 mentions by brands and consumers of the word “bae” or “fleek” online. Among the culprits…
The only thing worse than all the junk mail stuffed in your mailbox is finding a card that’s actually addressed to you, but is covered in mounds of glitter. The shiny stuff ends up all over your hands, your face, and your home, and it’s all but impossible to clean up. So that’s why a…
The two hundred and twenty million dollars in venture capital given to Instacart, a grocery delivery service that deploys human servants to retrieve goods from the shelves of existing grocery stores, seems less like an investment in the validity of its specific idea—which is stupid and unsustainable for reasons so blatant that they are not…
Marlene Dumas in her Amsterdam studio: ‘When I begin work on a painting it’s always total kitsch!’ Photograph: Jackie Nickerson Seven years ago, Marlene Dumas briefly became the world’s most expensive living female artist, a dizzying upward move that was reported, somewhat breathlessly, in newspapers from New York to Tokyo (her 1995 painting The Visitor…