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Jonathan Majors’ ex-girlfriend said she wanted “help” in safely exiting her relationship with Majors, but also wanted to protect the Marvel actor when police showed up to their apartment in March following the actor allegedly attacking her in a car the night before. “I wanted to say: ‘help me, please,’” Grace Jabbari tearfully told a New York courtroom during Majors’ domestic violence trial on Wednesday. “But I felt scared to do that. I alluded to it in the safest way I felt possible. I loved him still, it was so…

Opening statements for Jonathan Majors’ trial on misdemeanor assault and harassment charges began Monday with the Marvel star’s attorneys alleging his former partner made false allegations to “hurt him at the height of his career,” while prosecutors allege a pattern of psychological abuse culminating in the incident.  The charges stem from an alleged domestic violence incident on March 25, 2023. Police responded to a 911 call and a 30-year-old woman reported being assaulted by Majors, with police…

Meta Platforms was told by EU tech regulators on Friday to provide more details on measures taken to tackle child sexual abuse material on its photo and video sharing app Instagram by Dec. 22 or risk a formal investigation under new EU online content rules.The European Commission in October sent a first request for information on measures taken to counter the spread of terrorist and violent content, and a second last month on measures to protect minors. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join. "Information is also…

The EU on Friday demanded Instagram-owner Meta provide more information about measures taken by the company to address child sexual abuse online.The request for information focuses on Meta's risk assessment and mitigation measures "linked to the protection of minors, including regarding the circulation of self-generated child sexual abuse material (SG-CSAM) on Instagram", the European Commission said.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM KozhikodeIIMK Advanced Data Science…

When Alana Evans found out Ron Jeremy’s rape case would end with him being released to a “private residence,” she said it left her emotionally drained and completely derailed. A longtime adult film entertainer and president of the Adult Performance Artists Guild, Evans testified before the Los Angeles County grand jury that indicted Jeremy on more than 30 counts of sexual assault in 2021 and spent years working with women in the porn industry who decided to speak out against one of its most legendary figures.It was…

A trade union that won a landmark case against Uber in the UK’s Supreme Court had a “culture of abuse and toxicity,” with an internal power struggle threatening to paralyze its operations, according to a damning independent report obtained by WIRED.The report into the App Drivers and Couriers Union, or ADCU, which was commissioned by the union itself last summer and conducted by a leading UK barrister, also identified incidents of racial abuse and Islamophobia, mistreatment of staff, and evidence that senior figures…

Instagram's vast digital landscape has been made more secure with the Support Requests feature. If you've seen Instagram abuse instances that appear to breach Community Guidelines and reported the same to the portal, this tool empowers you to track the progress of of your report. In the app's Settings, under Support Requests, users can access detailed information on each report, understand policy implications, and even request a review of Instagram's decision. It's a pivotal aspect of maintaining a safe and compliant…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, the United Nations (UN) identified what it called a "shadow pandemic" of domestic violence against women. The UN includes in its definition of domestic violence what it refers to as "economic violence," which it explains as: "making or attempting to make a person financially dependent by maintaining total control over financial resources, withholding access…

Michael Guzman was a popular teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School in El Sereno around the turn of the century. He taught history and coached the girls’ basketball team.But more than two decades later — after he had moved on to different schools in different districts — Guzman, an assistant principal at Gabrielino High in San Gabriel, was arrested this month and charged with four counts of lewd acts on a child stemming from allegations from about 20 years ago, according to court documents and interviews with two of the…

Jimmy Iovine, co-founder of Interscope Records and of the headphone brand Beats, has been accused of sexual abuse and harassment by an unnamed woman.Iovine was served a summons ahead of a lawsuit being filed against him. The New York court document contains allegations that the woman “suffered as a result of being sexually abused, forcibly touched, and subjected to sexual harassment and retaliation in violation of anti-discrimination laws in or around August 2007”. She is seeking compensation via damages.A spokesperson…