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The German government has announced new plans to force social media sites to delete hate speech and fake news. Justice Minister Heiko Maas said Facebook and Twitter had failed to regulate themselves. German Justice Minister Heiko Maas has revealed details of a new plan to curb hate speech and fake news on social media…
President Donald Trump, a thousand sausages held together with duct tape, sure loves to tweet. He does it to share news, to both threaten and congratulate people, and to fill the pre-dawn hours before his handlers help him change out of his bathrobe. While a master of the destabilizing 140-character missive, Trump has not yet…
There are people who will tell you that you should use LinkedIn to flirt with women. Here’s our much better advice: Don’t do this. Ever. Flirting on LinkedIn isn’t just counterproductive — it can come across as wildly inappropriate. Yet we find that there’s still plenty of need to explain why you should never, ever — no, really,…
Illustration: Jim Cooke There are bad tweets every day of the year, but this is the day that we celebrate the bad tweets that were tweeted today: International Women’s Day. Thank you to everyone for their tweets. core-decorated Reporter, Special Projects Desk PGP Fingerprint: E6A2 8CF9 9829 649D A52E 3D40 F960 DDD5 7026|PGP Key …
President Donald Trump is poised to go down as both the most voracious tweeter and most passionate cable news consumer to ever reside in the White House. Since his stunning upset in November, Trump’s preoccupation with each has seemingly intensified. Whether from Trump Tower, his resort at Mar-a-Lago, or the White House Trump has reportedly…
This essay is a guest post from the Deputy Editor at Screener, a site for critical writing on television and streaming and the new home of Television Without Pity. View this image › PewDiePie at Barnes & Noble Union Square on Oct. 29, 2015, in New York City. John Lamparski / Getty Images ID: 10539149…
YouTube canceled its top star’s show on Tuesday over his anti-Semitic jokes, complicating its efforts to court television advertisers while also retaining its edgy video stars. YouTube, a unit of Alphabet Inc.’s Google, distanced itself from its most popular creator—27-year-old Felix Kjellberg, who goes by PewDiePie—after The Wall Street Journal reported he made anti-Semitic jokes or showed Nazi imagery in…
Eli Lake published a column yesterday for Bloomberg View on why Flynn lying was a weird reason to fire him: That sounds about as credible as when the president told CIA employees that the media had invented the story about his enmity toward the spy agency, not even two weeks after he had taken to Twitter to…
Last night, the Senate voted 49-43 to silence Elizabeth Warren as she read a letter written by the wife of Martin Luther King Jr, Coretta Scott King. King sent this letter to the Senate in 1986 when the chamber was in debate on whether or not to confirm Jeff Sessions to a lifetime appointment on…
The words of trolls are hurtful, yes — but more than that, they can alter our perception of reality. Mrs. Manningham: It’s strange that you can’t see how you hurt me. That girl laughs at me enough already… Mr. Manningham: But, my dear — if she does that, doesn’t the fault lie with you? Mrs Manningham: [Pause.] You mean that…