Police in Mumbai, India, have charged actor Ranveer Singh with sale or circulation of obscene material, sale of obscene objects to a young person, and insulting the modesty of any woman after he posted nude pictures of himself on Instagram. The photos were from a photo shoot for Paper magazine. An organization who filed a […]
William Faulkner once famously wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” I’ve been thinking a lot about that quote, which comes from his 1951 novel Requiem for a Nun, in regards to today’s guest, George Dawes Green. George is the creator of the massively popular event series, radio show, and podcast The […]
Nzube Udezue—better known simply as Zuby—is a rapper, podcaster, and author known for an engaging mix of personal uplift and political provocation that led to a highly publicized (if temporary) suspension from Twitter in 2020. Born in England to parents of Nigerian descent and raised in Saudi Arabia, he now spends much of his time […]
Meta’s third-party fact-checkers have flagged as “false information” posts on Instagram and Facebook accusing the Biden administration of changing the definition of a recession in order to deny that the U.S. economy has entered one. This is yet another reminder that the project of purportedly independent fact-checking on social media is a highly partisan one, […]
Another antitrust lawsuit for Zuckerberg. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is suing to stop Facebook parent-company Meta from acquiring the virtual reality company Within Unlimited. Meta has been betting big that virtual reality (V.R.) and augmented reality (A.R.) will finally have their day, pouring billions of dollars into the “metaverse.” Within makes a popular V.R. […]
Americans have different priorities than lawmakers when it comes to tech regulation. People don’t want to see Congress use antitrust law against big tech, according to a new poll from AXIS Research. Tech regulations, in general, are low on people’s list of things the government should prioritize. Only 1 percent of voters surveyed said it […]
A TikTok video that recently went viral shows a police officer chasing and attempting to tase a protester, before being dressed down by a superior. The incident took place in 2016, and Reason documented the ensuing lawsuit, which led to the protester receiving a $175,000 settlement from the city. In July 2016, Chris Dickey, a […]
No living American journalist has a fiercer reputation for independence—and invective—than Glenn Greenwald. The Pulitzer Prize winner helped break the Edward Snowden revelations, was once threatened with jail time by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, and was part of the team that launched The Intercept in 2014 before resigning six years later, claiming his colleagues were […]
In April, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5–4 to reinstate an Environmental Protection Agency rule promulgated during the Trump administration that had been vacated by a lower court. Why did the Supreme Court reinstate the rule? The majority offered no explanation. Nor did it technically need to do so. The case, Louisiana v. American Rivers, […]
Earlier this month, the respective parents of two girls filed suit against social media platform TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance. According to the suit, the girls died while imitating behavior from videos that TikTok knew were dangerous and should have taken down. It asks for a jury trial and unspecified monetary damages. One of […]