Новости за 08.04.2021

A 21-year-old woman’s dismemberment was reportedly filmed by Brazillian gang members accused of killing her.

A bizarre, anonymous statement signed by the "Women of U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz's Office" is circulating amid the representative's sex scandals.

Three websites purporting to be companies developing coronavirus vaccines and treatments were actually stealing people's personal information and have been seized by Maryland officials.

So, you've got your second COVID-19 vaccination. That's great! You can finally see your family, get your hair done, and go to the dentist. But can you have brunch with a group of friends at an indoor restaurant or travel out of the state or country? That's where things get a bit murkier—particularly, in the judgemental eyes of society. A new meme on Twitter is taking the punch out of these judgey judgersons by posing theoretical questions of what being vaccinated does NOT mean.

One man’s meltdown over finding “Black Lives Matter” chalked on a walkway in Laguna Beach went viral this week—and not for the reason he wanted.

In a viral set of TikTok videos, a so-called male "Karen" rages out, kicking locked doors after being denied service at a Verizon phone store in Stafford County, Virginia. But not so fast: It's an incident from July that ultimately resulted in racist abuse and an arrest.

New York will require internet service providers (ISPs) in the state to offer low-income residents a $15-a-month broadband plan.

Experts are raising doubts that artificial intelligence was used to create a video that police are calling a “deepfake” and is at the center of an ongoing legal battle playing out in Pennsylvania.

MIT Technology Review Journalist Karen Hao is tired of being digitally trailed by Facebook. In the three weeks since Hao published an exposé centered around Facebook’s ‘Responsible AI’ team, she has been tweeted at by the company’s CTO Mike Schroepfer, sent a lengthy list of factual corrections that Hao alleges were mostly inaccurate, and has had members of Facebook’s communications team attend her virtual talks. 

Hello! Every week, our internet culture staff discusses the world of streaming entertainment. In this edition:

When HBO announced Joss Whedon's new TV show The Nevers in 2018, Whedon had recently completed Justice League for HBO's parent company Warner Bros., and he was accused of emotional abuse and unprofessional behavior by his ex-wife Kai Cole. More wide-ranging abuse allegations would be shared by others in 2020 and 2021, but even in 2018, fans were aware of grim stories like Charisma Carpenter's treatment while filming Angel—not to mention the sexist and racist themes in Whedon's work. This was the... Читать дальше...

Yet another restaurant chain is going viral on TikTok for its ingredients, and this time it’s IHOP.

Activists online continue to be horrified by the handling of a wastewater disaster in Florida—first, at the lack of protection for inmates near the disaster and, now, because of the potential environmental impacts.

A TikTok video has gone viral showing a Mexican American man putting a "border wall" between his backyard and his neighbor’s after the neighbor allegedly complained about their Mexican music.  

Khloé Kardashian’s legal team is using Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedowns and threats of legal action to remove a photo of Kardashian posted online, a move that’s cofounding parts of the internet.

A series of videos surfaced showing a group of police officers arresting a 21-year-old man, who reportedly has Asperger’s syndrome, bipolar disorder, anger management, and heart murmurs. At least one video shows the officers kneeling on him as he cries out for help.