Новости за 06.08.2021

Citizen, the app which recently brought you a vigilante hunt for the wrong man; a street team that pretends to be ordinary users; and an erroneous broadcast of an airport training exercise framed as plane crash, is getting into the 911 business.

Conspiracy theorists are claiming that the CEO for pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has not been vaccinated—using it as evidence that the inoculation for COVID-19 is unsafe.

The opioid epidemic is a very real tragedy that's claimed thousands of lives.

Welcome to the Friday edition of Internet Insider, where we dissect the week online. Today:

Superhero stories on the screen are having something of an existential crisis right now. That’s not necessarily a bad thing: When you spend years watching characters kick, punch, blast, lasso, and manipulate their way past whatever villain is in their way this time, it’s eventually going to take a physical and emotional toll. In the hands of the right actor and creative team, it can lead to rich storytelling, but more often than not, themes like grief and trauma have instead lent themselves to lazy shorthand. Читать дальше...

In a video from Aug. 5, City Councilwoman Tiesa Meskis is seen confronting a shop owner in Aberdeen, Washington, about a transphobic sign in the store.

Women say they're sick of being recorded at gyms after a TikToker exposed a man for taking Snapchat pictures of a woman working out.

Just when you thought the celebs were done revealing how (in)frequently they bathe their children, Jake Gyllenhaal has stepped in with his own thoughts on hygiene.

A TikToker is being praised for her response to a man she says was yelling at a woman about her President Joe Biden bumper sticker.

A brief but upsetting TikTok video of a woman and her apparent baby at a salon is horrifying viewers.

In typical "Karen" fashion, a Milwaukee salon owner allegedly stuck her nose into a Black client’s business during a hair appointment.

Four years after the launch of her cosmetics brand Fenty Beauty, Rihanna has officially become a billionaire. Forbes now estimates that she’s worth $1.7 billion, which makes her the wealthiest female musician in the world and the second richest female entertainer after Oprah Winfrey.