Actor, director and Knicks fan Ben Stiller directed some sarcasm at the former NBA player-turned-ABC analyst in the middle of Game 4 of the first-round series with the 76ers.
FEATURE (THE CONVERSATION) — The U.S. government moved closer to banning the video social media app TikTok on Apr. 23 after the Senate approved a $95 billion foreign aid bill. The bill includes a provision to force ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, to either sell its American holdings to a U.S. company or […]
A mostly forgotten footnote in the development of modern transportation is that early railroad passengers were often locked into their carriages. In retrospect, it seems obvious that bolting people into combustible and accident-prone vehicles was a bad idea, but the railroad is a useful reminder that humans are not always good at anticipating the effects […]
Popular Iraqi social media influencer Ghufran Mahdi Sawadi was shot to death outside of her Baghdad home on Friday evening. Security camera footage of the crime scene showed the assailant, who arrived on a motorcycle, discharge a handgun four times while the victim was sitting in her car. Iraq’s interior ministry has stated that they
While the right to freedom of expression is guaranteed, not all speech is constitutionally protected. When speech is wielded in a weaponized way, it cannot be protected.
Meta’s move into the open social web, also known as the fediverse, is puzzling. Does the Facebook owner see open protocols as the future? Will it embrace the fediverse only to shut it down, shifting people back to its proprietary platforms and decimating startups building in the space? Will it bring its advertising empire to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Researchers who track misinformation and hate speech in India say tech companies' poor enforcement of their own policies has created perfect conditions for harmful content that could distort public opinion, spur violence and leave millions of voters wondering what to believe.
The wife of one CMPD officer remembers the fear that came when her husband was called to duty at the same time Monday's tragic shooting occurred.
Miami, April 30, 2024—Cuban authorities must immediately and unconditionally release jailed local freelance journalist José Luis Tan Estrada and allow reporters to work without fear of reprisal, said the Committee to Protect Journalists on Tuesday. On April 26, Tan was arrested in the Cuban capital of Havana and has since been detained in the Villa
Iraqi authorities are investigating the killing of a well-known social media influencer who was shot by an armed motorcyclist in front of her home in central Baghdad