X/Twitter Temporarily Suspends Account Of Alexei Navalny’s Widow

Doja Cat has departed Instagram.

Jackson Mahomes has received his sentence following last year’s arrest.

Alexei Navalny’s sacrifice for democracy is being recognized in the place where the concept of government by the people first flourished.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor UPDATE, 3/8, 1:15 p.m. ET: In an about-face, Apple restored Epic Games‘ developer account for Sweden, two days after terminating it over what the tech giant said was Epic’s “egregious breach of its contractual obligations to Apple.” Epic said Apple’s reversal will allow it proceed with plans to launch battle-royale game “Fortnite” and the Epic Games Store in European countries.

What?! The accuser of Geri Halliwell’s husband has been suspended!

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor The “face with tears of joy” emoji represents “a crying with laughter facial expression,” according to Wikipedia. “The emoji is used in communication to portray joking and teasing on messaging platforms.” Elon Musk, the multibillionaire tech baron who owns X (formerly Twitter), on Monday was sued by four former Twitter executives, whom Musk fired immediately after (reluctantly) closing the $44 billion takeover of the company in October 2022.

It’s a Hell of a lot more than 140 characters, but the severance and benefits lawsuit against Elon Musk and X Corp from a quartet of ex-Twitter executives sends a very clear message.

Good Morning Britain's Susanna Reid clashed with an ITV viewer over Prince Harry's court case.The veteran presenter was branded "pathetic" in a social media exchange after she defended the Duke of Sussex during a segment on the morning TV show. On Wednesday, 28 February, it was announced that a judge had ruled against Prince Harry, 39, in a case brought by him to the High Court over his personal security. He lost the case, in which he had challenged a ruling that was made in 2020, but reportedly plans to appeal the decision.

Christopher Vourlias Akin Omotoso, the filmmaker behind Disney Plus’ Giannis Antetokounmpo biopic “Rise,” has been attached to direct “The Plot to Save South Africa,” an adaptation of Justice Malala’s gripping book about a 1990s white supremacist plot that almost plunged the young democracy into civil war. “The Plot to Save South Africa” will be produced by Johannesburg-based production outfit Ochre Moving Pictures, which signed a deal with Netflix last year to adapt multiple books for the streaming service alongside Omotoso.

In honor of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit airing its 25th season, Rockefeller Plaza is celebrating Mariska Hargitay, aka the show’s Detective Olivia Benson. She is now the longest-running female actress on primetime television, and will receive an immersive exhibit dedicated to all things Benson and SVU. 

X/Twitter has been hacked by a cryptocurrency group attempting to commit fraud.The late Friends actor’s profile on the social media platform includes a link to a foundation set up in his name, but it appears that the link has been compromised, and is instead re-directing potential donors to a copycat site.In a statement from the Matthew Perry Foundation on Instagram, they have said: “We have received reports that Matthew’s official X page has been hacked and is directing users to a fraudulent site soliciting donations via cryptocurrency.A post shared by Matthew Perry Foundation (@matthewperryfoundation)“Please do not donate to this site or share the fraudulent posts on social media. MatthewPerryFoundation.org is the only website associated with the Foundation, and we are only accepting donations through this site.”The organisation also urged the public to report any imposter accounts, and clarified that the only official account for the Foundation is their Instagram account.Perry passed away at the age of 54 in October last year, having been found unresponsive in a hot tub at his Los Angeles home.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced when it will start checking bank accounts of people who claim benefits.

President Joe Biden met today with Yulia and Dasha Navalnaya, the wife and daughter of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who Russian authorities said died in prison last week.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor After critics slammed Google‘s “woke” generative AI system, the company halted the ability of its Gemini tool to create images of people to fix what it acknowledged were “inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions.” Google’s Gemini, formerly known as Bard, began offering text-to-image generative features this month. The problem appeared to be that, in trying to compensate for gender- and racial-representation bias in AI, the system was creating ahistorical images of people.

Vladimir Putin's arch-enemy has warned the Russian leader is plotting to murder a string of critics in Britain.

Pussy Riot protested Alexei Navalny’s death outside the Russian embassy in Berlin on Sunday (February 18), accusing Vladimir Putin and the Russian government of being “murderers”.The activist group staged the protest outside the embassy following the Russian opposition leader’s death on Friday (February 16).Details surrounding his death remain scarce, though authorities at the prison where he was being held said he suffered “sudden death syndrome”, according to the BBC. The state-run RT suggested via an unknown source that he died from a blood clot.Pussy Riot held large signs reading ‘Murderers’ at the demonstration.

There are plenty of celebrities who have refused to join any kind of social media platform and have opened up about their reasons why.

U2 singer Bono paid tribute Saturday night to recently deceased Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny during his concert at The Sphere in Las Vegas. The frontman got the crowd to chant Navalny’s name as a memorial to the dissident’s struggle against the Russian establishment.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic U2 has been performing Crowded House’s “Don’t Dream It’s Over” in concert at the band’s Sphere residency recently, and before Saturday night’s show, the introduction to that song extended far longer than usual, as Bono paid tribute to the dream of Alexei Navalny, the Russian dissident who died in prison days earlier. The singer spoke up for the freedom of the Ukrainian people and against Russian leader Vladimir Putin — who many believe is directly responsible for the political prisoner’s still-unexplained death — before leading the crowd in a chant of Navalny’s name. “Next week it’ll be two years since Putin invaded and tried to destroy the hard-won freedoms” of the Ukrainian people, Bono said.

Jaka Bizilj, the founder of the Berlin-based Cinema for Peace Foundation which organized the airlift from Russia of opposition activist Alexei Navalny after his poisoning in 2020, has responded to his sudden death in an Arctic Circle jail on Friday.