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EBay agreed to pay a $3 million criminal penalty after employees engaged in a harassment campaign against two bloggers for their coverage of the company, including mailing them live cockroaches and a fetal pig. The e-commerce giant was charged with two counts of stalking through interstate travel, two counts of stalking through electronic communications services, one count of witness tampering and one count of obstruction of justice. Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

On other parts of the app, silence spread through normally vocal accounts. That applied to more conventional propagandists, such as Margarita Simonyan, editor of state TV news network RT. Once a Prigozhin supporter, Simonyan’s Telegram account was quiet on Saturday. Her explanation? She was on a cruise on the River Volga. But parts of the new generation of Telegram influencers were silent too. The anonymous Veteran Notes account, which has 320,000 subscribers, didn’t post as the rebellion started on Friday night—due to…

Megan Thee Stallion may have to gear up for more legal battles.In the years since she publicly accused Tory Lanez of physical assault, Megan has been subjected to a wide range of criticism and nasty victim-blaming. Some have accused the Houston rapper of lying about the shooting, while others say she was the aggressor in the incident and, therefore, responsible for her own injuries. This issue has been addressed in numerous articles, which suggested that bloggers were partly to blame for the misogynistic and abusive…

Far-right writers have seen their hopes for an “Anti-woke” superhero go up in flames.Photo: charles taylor (Shutterstock)Superhero fans on the far-right political spectrum have one less movie to get excited about, putting their options for hateful heroes to—well—none. As first reported by The Daily Beast, a movie that was set to give us a big-screen rendition of an “anti-woke superhero” is shuttered, and the thousands of dollars fans invested in the project likely won’t be coming back to them, according to a video sent to…