Новости за 08.01.2021

Earlier this week, an unverified rumor that Kanye West and controversial beauty influencer Jeffree Star were sleeping together, which eventually led to West and Kim Kardashian divorcing, went viral across TikTok and Twitter. And while much of the conversation around the rumor involved confusion, skepticism, and disbelief, Star is now putting a rest to it all.

Appearing in dozens of short stories and novels by Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin is the French equivalent of Sherlock Holmes. Using theatrical schemes to outwit his opponents, he's an old-school gentleman thief. He's inspired numerous film adaptations (plus a long-running anime spinoff in Japan), so it was only a matter of time before someone decided to launch a modern reboot. Cue Netflix's Lupin, which reimagines the Lupin stories with a French-Senegalese hero in contemporary Paris. Omar Sy (The Intouchables) stars as Assane Diop... Читать дальше...

A white mom on TikTok posted a now-viral video of her children "hailing" Black women earlier this week. She removed the video after Black content creators said it made them "uncomfortable" and "threatened."

After months of fanning the flames that contributed to this week's Capitol riots, on Thursday night President Donald Trump released a video in which he condemned the violence and promised the perpetrators would be prosecuted. Now some of his supporters are claiming it's a deepfake.

On Thursday, the moderator team of Reddit’s r/conspiracy announced its former head mod, Axolotl_Peyotl, has been removed as a moderator of the subreddit and permanently suspended from the site.

The U.S. Capitol Police confirmed one of its officers died Thursday night after sustaining injuries during Wednesday’s Capitol riot—and Twitter users have placed the blame on one politician in particular. 

Riots broke out at the Capitol Wednesday, leaving five people dead and dozens injured.

Outgoing Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai admitted that the agency will not act on President Donald Trump's controversial social media executive order that targets Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

Twenty years after Xena: Warrior Princess, Lucy Lawless is still a consistently cool celebrity—and she just got even cooler in the eyes of many for skewering her former co-star for tweeting conspiracy theories related to this week's Capitol riot.

Stream FA Cup this weekend, as teams enter the Third Round, which brings top Premier League teams into their first action.

Last weekend, my sister texted me to ask if I’d been watching Cobra Kai. We’re both of the age where the original Karate Kid films were part of our childhood, and she’d just started the series. Her follow-up text wiped away any rosy nostalgia, however. 

Sign up to receive the best of the internet straight to your inbox.

The internet erupted in chaos on Wednesday as supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol. In today's Internet Insider:

• Twitter users compare police violence against BLM vs. Trump supporters at Capitol
• Concealer for men called War Paint dragged in debate on toxic masculinity
• Emojiscopes: Your horoscope for January 2021

BREAK THE INTERNET

'White privilege is storming'... Читать дальше...

An Alabama man who died during Wednesday's Capitol riot in Washington, D.C. posted extremist content on social media platform Parler prior to his death. A Birmingham-based investigative journalist shared screenshots of the content on his own Twitter account, in the hopes of gathering more information about 55-year-old Kevin Greeson's life.

After Wednesday's riot at the U.S. Capitol, police are facing massive criticism for a host of reasons. Notably, police have been condemned for failing to prepare for the riot as well as the blatant discrepancy between the treatment of white rioters and Black Lives Matter movement protesters.