On Sunday, HBO aired the final two parts of its six-part docuseries “Q: Into the Storm.” Directed by filmmaker Cullen Hoback, “Into the Storm” offered unprecedented access to the biggest players behind the QAnon movement: 8chan owner Jim Watkin; his son Ron, the site’s administrator' and its creator Fredrick Brennan, who has since become the Watkins’s most public opponent. Hoback also interviewed a number of major players in both the QAnon community—which believes a secret military insider was... Читать дальше...
A TikTok video shows a man persistently following a woman in Huntington Beach even as she films him.
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Right-wing commentator Andy Ngo claims to have fled the United States over alleged threats from left-wing activists.
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has indicated the strongest support on the court to date for stripping some of the world's largest internet companies' rights to police content on their sites.
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The Fletcher Street Stables, the real-life organization of Black urban cowboys who ride and take care of horses in North Philadelphia and who are at the center of Concrete Cowboy, would be utterly fascinating subjects of a documentary. The group’s history covers more than a century, dispelling the myth—and Hollywood-fueled whitewashed lie—that all cowboys were white, and you can tell that Concrete Cowboy is only scratching the surface. Several of the group’s members appear in the film, and the... Читать дальше...
Food hacks and tutorials are big on TikTok, and have become even more popular over the last year, as we've been stuck at home staring into the fridge.
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For the past 25 years, SpaceJam.com—Space Jam’s official website that was created in 1996 to promote the movie—has remained an untarnished and “ancient” relic of the internet. No matter what kinds of leaps and bounds that web programming and graphics offered, the site’s notoriety, or Space Jam becoming an unabashed classic for viewers, you could always count on SpaceJam.com remaining exactly the same. At least, that used to be the case.
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Islamaphobic political activist Laura Loomer just lost her last hope at having her Twitter account restored.
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A viral TikTok shows a “Karen” trying out a new profession—music critic—as she ruthlessly disses a subway performer's voice and tells her not to sing anymore.
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More than 500 million Facebook users' personal data has been leaked online—and that reportedly includes at least one high-profile user: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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A viral video shared on Twitter yesterday afternoon featured a tall Black man, wrongly identified as former NFL player Bruce Campbell, getting into and losing a during a fight at a Walmart. NFL experts have since debunked the connection to the ex-Raiders lineman, though at least one site is still going with the false version of the story.
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DC Comics' latest publicity stunt asks fans to choose which comics get published in the first place, but the social media campaign has also unwittingly sparked a conversation about queer representation among superheroes.
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Welcome to the Monday edition of Internet Insider, where we dissect the weekend online. Today:
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