Instagram apparently handled searches for popular hashtags related to the two presidential candidates differently, pointing Joe Biden search queries toward often negative related hashtags while making no such suggestions in corresponding searches pertaining to President Trump. A new report by the Tech Transparency Project details the strange platform behavior. In…
The deepfake ban is part of a broader set of policy changes meant to fight misinformation and election meddling. The new rules also make the company’s policy barring coordinated inauthentic activities “unambiguous.” TikTok also says it’s expanding its work with outside fact-checkers ahead of the 2020 election, and that it…
President Donald Trump isn’t the best reader. He’s also not very good at typing, spelling, and often writes in ALL CAPS using a Sharpie marker. While we as a nation have grown somewhat accustomed to his linguistic shortcomings, he still managed to surprise people on Tuesday while signing The Great…
Another day, another nightmarish Donald Trump interview. Fresh from a chat with Fox News host Chris Wallace that didn’t exactly paint him in a great light, the president decided to sit down opposite Axios journalist Jonathan Swan on Monday and, lo and behold, things were even worse this time around.…
Seth Rogen is a man of many occupations: actor, writer, director, freelance ceramicist. But he’s never been his own costar, until now; his latest, An American Pickle (premiering Thursday on HBO Max), which he also produced, finds the actor playing both a (literally) pickled Old World immigrant named Herschel Greenbaum…
With the memory of Trump’s rescheduled June rally originally planned on Juneteenth, an annual holiday commemorating the end of slavery still fresh in memory, John Oliver decided to take a deeper look at the way U.S. history is taught, and specifically, the “embarrassing gaps in many people’s knowledge.” In the…
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa hopes to tighten his hold on the nation’s fractious politics in an election on Wednesday that could elevate his brother and allow the two to change the constitution if they prevail. Rajapaksa, who claims credit for controlling the spread of the new…
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa hopes to tighten his hold on the nation’s fractious politics in an election on Wednesday that could elevate his brother and allow the two to change the constitution if they prevail. Rajapaksa, who claims credit for controlling the spread of the new…
The provost of University College London announced in June this year that its Galton Lecture Theatre, Pearson Lecture Theatre and Pearson Building had all been renamed. They are now known by the perfectly unmemorable names of, respectively, Lecture Theatre 115, Lecture Theatre G22 and the North-West Wing. What sounds like…
