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More than a year after its originally planned release date, Marvel fans will finally be able to watch Black Widow.

Pillowfort, the NSFW-friendly Tumblr social media alternative, is set to return in April. The social media network announced the news on Friday after a turbulent winter launch.

A Starbucks employee says he was fired over a humorous TikTok posted to the social media platform last year.

Zack Snyder’s Justice League is full of Snyder’s trademark slow-mo, a film technique he uses for both storytelling and flourishes. For the former, it’s a way to fuel and build aspects of Snyder’s DC Universe, such as its depiction of Barry Allen’s super-speed; for him, everything (including a hot dog) is slowed down exponentially. But more often than not, it’s a way to make something like a fight scene look more dramatic.

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Welcome to the Tuesday edition of Internet Insider, where we dissect tech and politics unfolding online. Today:

• We talk to Gigi Sohn, a distinguished fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy, a Benton Senior Fellow & Public Advocate, and former FCC counselor, about the latest movement regarding net neutrality rules, the digital divide, and more.
• Sohn is a long-time... Читать дальше...

In a viral series of TikTok videos, user nellys4js did not hesitate to air family grievances.

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Getting your COVID-19 vaccine just got even sweeter, thanks to Krispy Kreme. In a press release, the doughnut company announced on March 22 that people who present a COVID-19 vaccine card at any Krispy Kreme location in the United States can receive free doughnuts. 

"Starting today, guests who show a valid COVID-19 vaccination card at any Krispy Kreme shop in the U.S. can receive a free iconic Original Glazed® doughnut—anytime, any day, even every... Читать дальше...

The National Rifle Association (NRA) celebrated an AR-15 ban being blocked in Boulder, Colorado just a week before a gunman killed 10 people in a city supermarket using a semi-automatic rifle.

Over the last year, numerous flavors of Karen have emerged through viral encounters. The contemporary and extremely common anti-masker Karen has slowly replaced vintage Karens with no patience for the word "no." Now, a new Karen has joined the mix, after a police commissioner named Caren was caught on camera belittling two police officers.

Crowdfunding really can make dreams come true! This week, a little-known actor named Keanu Reeves got a Netflix deal for his Kickstarter-funded comic. A Hollywood miracle! How else would he have attracted Netflix's attention? Anyway, congrats to Reeves and the co-creators of BRZRKR, an action/adventure comic that came out two weeks ago and is already on its way to becoming a multimedia franchise.

In the wake of the Snyder Cut's critical success, Snyderverse campaigners show no sign of slowing down. There's a vocal contingent of DC fans who want to see a director's cut of Suicide Squad (by David Ayer) along with more Justice League movies from Zack Snyder. But according to a new Variety interview with WarnerMedia Studios CEO Ann Sarnoff, that isn't going to happen.

Within the first few weeks of Gab’s launch into private beta in 2016, posts about how “women are ruined” because “today's women would rather be feminist than feminine” were among the most-upvoted on the site. Still yet to launch, the self-described free-speech social media platform had already set the stage to become what it is known for today—the preferred platform for the far-right.

A kindergarten teacher who has gone viral on TikTok before is doing it again, with a pair of videos released over the weekend in which he takes his students to a virtual field trip to the zoo.

With a silhouette photo and a hyperlink, Twitch star Alinity Divine announced on Monday that she is joining OnlyFans.

An app that was designed to help women gauge safe neighborhoods is now shrouded in what appears to be a misinformation campaign accusing it of “human trafficking.” 

A video shared to a Reddit subreddit group dedicated to bad "Karen" behavior shows a woman getting into a young store employee's face, screaming about her medical condition.

The U.S. government seemingly confirmed UFOs' existence recently, and the internet is on fire about the possibilities. However, many are questioning where the viral news came from (a former Trump staffer talking to Fox News.)

A white TikToker is receiving backlash for posting videos of her "conscious life" as an event coordinator in a Guatemalan retreat center. Some commenters are calling her a modern-day Christopher Columbus.