Two former TikTok employees are suing the company over the emotional toll of seeing graphic content on the app, alleging that TikTok has “failed to provide a safe workplace for the thousands of contractors who are the gatekeepers between the unfiltered, disgusting and offensive content uploaded to the App and the hundreds of millions of
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Zi Faámelu was getting desperate. It was five days into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, five days since President Volodymyr Zelensky had declared martial law, and the 31-year-old musician, artist, and Instagram influencer knew she had to get out of Kyiv — and fast. She’d been trapped in her apartment, listening to the shelling around her. She
Kyrie Irving will get to help the Brooklyn Nets win and/or contract Covid-19 during home games with New York City Mayor Eric Adams set to rollback vaccine requirements for athletes and performers working in the city, The New York Times reports. The new policy is expected to go into effect today, March 24, once Adams
As we often see on the platform, TikTok users have a habit of imbuing what would otherwise be minor interpersonal drama with incredibly high dramatic stakes, prompting millions around the globe to play armchair detective. The latest example of something that should have been confined to the group text blowing up on a global scale
Those who lived through the not-so-distant events of 2012 probably never expected to hear “Gangnam Style,” the novelty hit by the K-pop superstar PSY, ever again. Yet “Gangnam Style” has made a comeback in an unlikely venue: TikTok, where zoomers are recounting their trauma in excruciating detail in a new, darkly funny trend. @aubrecita I
Raven-Symoné and the cast of Disney Channel’s Raven’s Home walked off the show’s set on Tuesday in solidarity with other Walt Disney Company employees to protest the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. “In support of our LGBTQ+ family and all of those who will be damaged by the ‘Don’t Say Gay bill’ we the cast of
“Ukraine is a frontier society and I have a frontier mentality. I thrive in this kind of chaos.” Max Leonov, 45, knocks back a double espresso at the bar of Buenavista, his Cuban restaurant and venue in downtown Kyiv. He scrutinizes a group at a noisy table, his pale skin, thin unshaped ginger beard and
L. remembers exactly what her son was wearing one winter evening nine years ago. She can still see every detail: the blue Angry Birds T-shirt, the black Bakugan hoodie unzipped down the front, the jeans that had once been bedazzled and that still faintly bore the heart-shaped pattern where the plastic jewels had been, the
Anthony Rapp is pushing back against Kevin Spacey’s recent demand that Rapp’s sex abuse lawsuit be terminated on the grounds that his alleged 1986 assault wasn’t serious enough to qualify for revival under the Child Victim’s Act. In a new court filing obtained by Rolling Stone, Rapp rejects Spacey’s March 4 assertion that the law
When Henry Hoeft decided to join the foreign legion in Ukraine, he pitched his local newspaper on the story. The result for the 28-year-old was a PR coup: A glowing front-page profile in the Columbus Dispatch. The piece described him, appealingly, as “as a former infantryman in the U.S. Army and half-Ukrainian on his father’s
Samantha Long knew something was wrong with her friend James Derrick when he started talking about fringe ideas on their first phone call in months. “It was essentially two hours of conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory, from things like ‘Covid isn’t real,’ to [theories about Joe] Biden, who was about to be sworn in as
Isibella Karnstein is taking over the world of entertainment with her online magazine TheChateau.org which is the first ever online magazine dedicated to catgirls and the kittenplay lifestyle, and her increasing popular podcast, “The Hourglass with Isibella” available worldwide on Spotify. “The Hourglass with Isibella” encompasses mysteries, esoteric, occult, history, the paranormal and more. “The
Dear Zoë Kravitz and Robert Pattinson, We are the co-hosts of Don’t Let This Flop, a podcast about internet culture sponsored by Rolling Stone. It is, for the most part, a silly little show where we talk about things like Hilary Duff’s dancing and men who eat sandwiches shirtless and whether or not we would join
Chris Cuomo is seeking over $125 million in a new arbitration filing against CNN, claiming the network’s decision to fire him was unjustified and that it damaged his ability to find future work as a journalist and media figure. Cuomo was fired from CNN back on Dec. 4, 2021, following a report from the New
An Illinois appeals court sided with Jussie Smollett Wednesday and ruled the Empire actor recently convicted of staging a hate hoax in January 2019 should be released on bond pending the outcome of his appeal. The surprise decision, which sprung Smollett from custody after he signed a $150,000 personal recognizance bond, followed less than a
Ron Jeremy’s serial rape case was suspended in Los Angeles on Thursday after the jailed porn star appeared incoherent and unable to recognize his own lawyer ahead of a critical hearing in the case. “I was just up in the cell where he was being kept, and I tried to get his attention unsuccessfully,” his
I began writing Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth in 2018, nearly six years after the 2012 shooting deaths of 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. That year, the families of 10 Sandy Hook victims sued conspiracy theorist and broadcaster Alex Jones of Infowars
In a pandemic full of mixed messaging, you would not be alone if you found this past week in Covid news particularly confounding. While outbreaks in Europe and Asia are on the rise— and a spike in cases in the United States likely on the horizon, Congress this week removed $15 billion in Covid-related funding
Ernest Simon Jr., a driver for Grey’s Anatomy, is suing the Los Angeles Police Department, claiming he was racially profiled when he was held at gunpoint for no good reason during a March 2021 incident at work. The suit claims that LAPD officers “initiated an unwarranted, unjustified, and unlawful ‘high risk’ traffic stop at [Simon’s]
UPDATE (3/17): Pete Davidson is no longer heading to space with Blue Origin. The company announced the news less than a week before the actor was scheduled to embark on the trip. “Blue Origin’s 20th flight of New Shepard has shifted to Tuesday, March 29,” the space exploration company said in a statement on Thursday.