President Donald Trump‘s 2020 campaign team failed miserably on Tuesday after an Avengers: Endgame-inspired meme backfired spectacularly. The “Trump War Room” Twitter account, used by the campaign to defend the president, shared a video depicting the commander-in-chief as arch-villain Thanos evaporating the Democratic House leadership with the infamous Infinity Gauntlet.Read More →
In August, the Indian government blocked internet access in the region of Kashmir. Now, due to company policy, WhatsApp has deleted Kashmiri users from its platform. For several decades, Pakistan and India have disputed for control over Kashmir. In August, India turned off the internet in the region. This week,Read More →
A few months ago, the world had yet to experience it. Sometime in October, it began to take hold. By November, it was everywhere. As videos of supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg doing a choreographed dance to his campaign hype song “High Hopes,” by Panic! at the DiscoRead More →
Twitter on Monday announced that it is launching a “privacy center” that will keep users informed about its data privacy policies. The company says the Twitter Privacy Center will be a “destination to provide more clarity around what we’re doing to protect the information you share with us” that willRead More →
After two political leaders refused to attend a climate debate hosted by U.K.’s Channel 4 on Thursday, the TV network decided on a very special replacement for them. Instead of empty chairs, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Brexit Party Leader Nigel Farage were represented by ice sculptures. As theRead More →
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that “some people” wanted to change the name of Thanksgiving, telling a crowd of supporters that he wasn’t going to let that happen. However, as many people quickly pointed out online, there doesn’t seem to be a large groundswell of support to do so.Read More →
Andy Ngo was suspended from Twitter on Monday over a tweet about transgender and Black people. “The US is one of the safest countries for trans people. The murder rate of trans victims is actually lower than that for cis population,” Ngo wrote on Nov. 20. “Also, who is behindRead More →
On Monday, at a conference in Los Angeles, California, a Facebook executive defended the social network’s decision to include Breitbart as a partner in its new News feature. Facebook’s Carolyn Evenson defended the choice of the right-wing site as one of a matter of balance, noting Facebook isn’t paying BreitbartRead More →
In a video from a recent Jack Ryan Q&A session, John Krasinski gave praise to the Central Intelligence Agency, and the internet was quick to put him on blast for it. In the video, originally posted to Twitter by user @dewybleach, Krasinski can be seen answering questions about his show JackRead More →
Members of Reddit’s r/The_Donald have begun promoting a separate subreddit as the popular pro-Trump forum prepares to enter its fifth month under quarantine. In a sticky post on Wednesday, Reddit user and r/The_Donald admin u/joshhawley2018 called on users to join a newly revived subreddit solely dedicated to memes. Known as r/Mr_Trump, the forum,Read More →