Новости за 22.02.2021

A mariachi band was filmed outside the home of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) as controversy continues to swirl over the lawmaker's trip to Mexico last week.

Chris D'Elia returned to YouTube months after multiple allegations of misconduct and abuse, and he confessed: "I do have a problem."

With Texans suffering the effects of a deadly snowstorm, mass power outages, and loss of water supply in the last week, some have decided to blame the government. Not the local state government for failing to manage the disaster properly or render effective aid—instead they're blaming President Joe Biden (and Bill Gates) for the snow itself, claiming it's fake snow sent to punish Texas for failing to vote blue.

A man was tackled and removed from a New York ice skating rink yesterday for waving a large Trump 2024 flag on the ice, several videos show. 

A TikTok video trending on Reddit shows an anti-masker caving in and putting on a complimentary face mask after being denied service at a hardware store.

Marla Grayson (Rosamund Pike) is not a good person, nor does she think good people exist. She lets you know this upfront in a somewhat on-the-nose voiceover, telling us that “playing fair is a joke invented by rich people to keep the rest of us poor”—and Marla doesn’t play fair at all. In her role as a state-appointed guardian to the elderly, Marla lies and manipulates, she exaggerates the facts, she bribes her co-conspirators, and uses loopholes to help her get access to all of her ward’s assets—a con that... Читать дальше...

The voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems filed a massive $1.3 billion lawsuit on Monday morning against My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell over his false claims about their role in the presidential election.

While we love internet communities, it's clear that some can seed and spread weaponized information at breakneck speeds. Platforms facilitate this, but social dynamics are also at work here. And if there's any hope of squashing disinformation, it's time to take a hard look at the communities that are incentivized to manufacture it.

A group of more than 30 Democratic congresswomen are urging President Joe Biden to elevate Jessica Rosenworcel from acting chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to its permanent chair.

The internet will get a chance to remotely control one of Boston Dynamics' $75,000 "Spot" robots this week thanks to a mysterious startup company. Not only that, the robot will even come equipped with a paintball gun for added mayhem.

Michael Che is facing backlash on Twitter after making a joke on Saturday Night Live that some feel was anti-Semitic.

A TikTok video shows a man calling the police on a Black man at a store in Denton, Texas, for no apparent reason.