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lengthy report on far-right social sites Monday.Tapper signed up for Gab Social after Parler announced it would sell itself to Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. That sale, Tapper said, would make Ye “the latest billionaire to buy his way into the ‘Social Media Legion of Doom,'” alongside former President Donald Trump, who owns Truth Social, and Elon Musk, who is in the process of buying Twitter.Ye moved to purchase the site, which bills itself as “the world’s pioneering uncancelable free speech platform,” after he was locked out of Twitter and Instagram following a number of antisemitic posts.After detailing Parler’s history and its use as an organizing tool by many of the insurgents who stormed the Capitol on Jan.
6, 2021, Tapper said that while site now markets itself as “the premier global free speech platform,” Gab has about 10 times more users.So he decided to take a look, and opened an account on Monday.“I clicked on ‘explore,’ which took me to popular posts across Gab,” he said. “I came in with an open mind, and immediately Gab hit me with this post: ‘We are in a war time, but it’s a quiet war perpetrated by the Jew.'” The meme featured a photo of Adolf Hitler.“And there was plenty more where that came from,” said Tapper, who is Jewish.”The N-word is super big on Gab.
It is a cesspool of hate.”But while it doesn’t stop people from posting hate, Gab does moderate content, as does Parler and Truth Social, Tapper noted. Gab “does not just allow any speech.
It takes precautions,” he said.“You can’t transmit unwanted advertising or promotional material on Gab,” he said. “You can’t impersonate someone else on Gab.
You can’t do anything that might cause Gab itself to be harassed on Gab. What it didn’t do was
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SAG-AFTRA and the WGA East, which together represent thousands of broadcast and digital reporters, say they’re “deeply distressed” by a federal judge’s ruling that would allow Starbucks to subpoena a wide range of communications between workers seeking to unionize and journalists reporting on their organizing efforts.
Several celebrities are ready to say goodbye to Twitter following Elon Musk’s takeover!
A cryptic tweet by Elon Musk and late-night purge of top executives closed Twitter’s takeover saga as chaotically as it began, with no formal announcement just a four-word post by the self-declared Chief Twit — “the bird is freed.”
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Howard Stern has compared Kanye West to Adolf Hitler following the rapper's antisemitic outbursts. On Wednesday’s episode of The Howard Stern Show, the radio presenter spoke on the rapper’s recent tirade against members of the Jewish community. Kanye has faced backlash after writing on Twitter that he would go “death con 3 on Jewish people”, misreferencing the United States military term DEFCON 3.
Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned for Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer this weekend in what’s being considered a potential preview for a 2024 or 2028 presidential run. Harris attended several events in Detroit to campaign on behalf of Whitmer and Lt.
Wisconsin Gov.Tony Evers and Republican challenger Tim Michels, locked in a tight race with implications on the 2024 presidential race in the battleground state, were scheduled to meet Friday for their one and only debate. Evers has cast himself as the only block against a Republican-controlled Legislature. Michels, who is endorsed by former President Donald Trump, calls himself a political outsider as he largely self-finances his run.
ATLANTA – Stacey Abrams is blasting Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp for enticing increased Chinese investment in the state despite what she says is the greater threat to national security it could bring, as well as the potential surveillance of Georgians by the Chinese Communist Party.
Surprising no one, Donald Trump today quickly lashed out at the January 6 Select Committee after a vote to subpoena the former president over his role in the insurrection and attack on the Capitol last year.
Channel 4 has bought a painting by Adolf Hitler and will let an audience decide whether Jimmy Carr should destroy it in an upcoming televised debate.The show, titled Art Trouble, will feature artworks by a number of “problematic” figures, including Pablo Picasso, convicted paedophile Rolf Harris and sexual abuser Eric Gill.As explained by Ian Katz, Channel 4’s director of programming, the show will see “advocates for each piece of art” present an argument for why the artwork should not be destroyed, before the studio audience ultimately decides its fate.“There are advocates for each piece of art,” Katz told The Guardian. “So you’ve got an advocate for Hitler.
Stephen Colbert thinks Ohio senate candidate JD Vance might have some serious competition — but not so much in his bid to become senator. No, Colbert joked on Tuesday night’s “Late Show” that Vance will have to edge out Lindsey Graham if he truly wants to suck up to Donald Trump.With midterm elections just four weeks away, Colbert opted to use part of his monologue to check in on some of the races (including a race between bears, one of which is apparently named for him).
J. Kim Murphy After Ariel Elias garnered online attention for a video of her handling a heckler during a standup set and chugging a beer that was thrown at her by an audience member, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” is now looking to book the comedian for an appearance. A spokesperson for ABC’s late-night program confirmed that the show is “in touch” with Elias and figuring out a date that would fit their schedules. Elias faced down the situation during a show Saturday evening in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J.. During a stretch of her set in which she opened the stage up for a Q&A with the audience, one attendee shouted “Did you vote for Donald Trump?”
Elon Musk, who is poised to take control of Twitter, has raised a new round of questions about how the climate of social media could change with his revelation that he reached out to Kanye West after the rapper’s anti-Semitic tweets.