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You can’t win an election if you don’t first win people’s attention, and an OnlyFans model in Mexico has come up with a very creative way to kick things off.

Many people tend to think of their pets as family members, which is why terms like "fur babies" are commonly used to describe our dogs and cats. What's more, pet owners will often risk life and limb to protect their beloved pooches, in particular, as no shortage of human interest stories can attest. In the latest to go viral, a 17-year-old actually faced down a damn bear to save their dogs.

The internet is divided over the BolaWrap restraining tool currently being tested by police that more or less resembles a high-tech lasso.

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Welcome to the Tuesday edition of Internet Insider, where we dissect tech and politics unfolding online. Today:

• ‘This is some next level dystopian sh*t’: Amazon rolls out kiosk for overwhelmed employees to use
• Republicans stick to slimmed-down broadband spending in latest infrastructure counterproposal to Biden
• Sorry, that video of Ted Cruz eating a fly is fake

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Amazon will soon automatically enroll customers who have specific devices into its "Amazon Sidewalk" service, which will allow for people nearby to use a share of your internet connection to help them with connectivity.

Limited series Mare of Easttown ended its buzzed-about first season on Sunday night, after a kerfuffle over Stephen King's "spoiler" tweet and the tried-and-true HBO Max crash.

Sometimes it feels like we'll never escape the discourse around Disney's "first" gay character. As Dani Di Placido pointed out in Forbes last week, we've already seen seven (debatable) firsts already, including a blink-and-you'll-miss-them couple in The Rise of Skywalker and Josh Gad's infamous role in Beauty and the Beast. Now, there's Artie in Cruella.

Hype House members Sienna Mae Gomez and Jack Wright have brought their more than 20 million combined TikTok followers to an online stir following accusations of sexual assault, Dexerto reports. On Tuesday, Gomez denied all accusations and turned the tables.

A former sex worker is dividing TikTok over her harrowing tales of life in the business.

Last year, it looked like a TikTok ban was a real possibility.

Former President Donald Trump's crusade against the wildly popular app turned into a months-long feud between the United States, China, and TikTok. But now, things appear murky at best under the new administration in the White House.

Given the back-and-forth under the Trump White House that spanned months, many users are still wondering about the fate of TikTok in the U.S.

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Ellie Kemper is known for her roles in Netflix's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and The Office, but she's not the kind of celebrity we associate with shocking gossip. That changed on Sunday night after a little-known detail from her college years began to trend on Twitter. According to one very inflammatory tweet, she was "crowned KKK queen" at a beauty pageant in 1999.