Новости за 25.08.2021

In a viral TikTok posted on Tuesday, students from University of Nebraska-Lincoln protest the fraternity Phi Gamma Delta, known as FIJI, and yelling "rot in hell." The video was posted by Will Green (@simp4icarly) and is captioned "kick FIJI off UNL campus."

The select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol is seeking any communication records between the administration of former President Donald Trump and an array of popular far-right influencers.

Nirvana’s album cover for Nevermind is world-famous, but nearly 30 years later, the man on the Nevermind album is now suing, and he claims that the album cover is child pornography.

A silly viral TikTok video shows a loving girlfriend claiming to "clean" her boyfriend's PlayStation 4 console with soap and water.

A former congressional candidate has filed a $20 million defamation suit against conservative commentator Candace Owens over statements Owens made in an Instagram video earlier this summer.

Over the past week-and-a-half, President Joe Biden and his administration have been criticized from every angle for their actions during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

A TikToker claiming to be a Dunkin' employee shared how he makes drinks differently for customers who tip versus those who don’t. 

One of the most fundamental and widely-used tools one the web is the browser. It’s what we use to access not only our favorite sites, but much of the internet as a whole. 

After widespread public outcry, OnlyFans has canceled its plan to ban sexually explicit content on the site.

With the shortage of workers sweeping the U.S., many businesses have begun offering incentives for new employees to sign on—but the reaction to a viral video of a Dairy Queen sign advertising a $2,400 signing bonus shows how people are reluctant to take such offers at face value.

Update 11:12am CT: A spokesperson for Eatonville originally told the Daily Dot that trackers were entirely voluntary. But this morning, the school revised its statement to the Daily Dot to note that students could opt-out, but if they did they would not be allowed to participate in sports.

A helping of mild harassment often comes part and parcel with many women leaving the home, a fact that TikTok has helped illuminate. Hundreds of videos on the platform see women recording their uncomfortable, irritating, or downright frightening encounters with men. A recent video, uploaded by @greenybeany420, provides viewers with yet another example of this far-too-common occurrence after a man at Starbucks stubbornly refused to take a woman's hints.

A woman throwing rocks at cars, signs in the street, and plants out of the ground appeared to throw a rock at an elderly woman with a cane. She was then tackled by a passerby and slammed into a fire hydrant—and it was all captured by a TikToker filming from a balcony in a Seattle building.

Shortly after being named the first daytime guest host of Jeopardy! after Mike Richards's exit, Mayim Bialik is under fire for her own controversial past. Bialik, best known for starring in The Big Bang Theory, has reportedly expressed contentious views about C-sections and vaccines, and folks on Twitter aren’t having it.

Social media was sent into a frenzy on Monday after Swiss publication Blick published an article quoting an immunologist warning people about "COVID-22," which he says is deadlier than the Delta variant. However, it's not a real disease and a new virus of that name is unlikely to exist.

A white man on TikTok tried to compare face masks—the ones people wear to protect themselves against COVID-19 —to the muzzles that slaves were forced to wear as punishment. 

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is proposing a $5 million fine for notorious right-wing trolls Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl over the robocall scheme the two launched in advance of the 2020 election.

In a viral TikTok, a woman attempts to be funny and announces to everyone in a Starbucks that she's single and available. Viewers were split as to whether or not the video was actually funny or just very uncomfortable to watch.