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Dr. Dre tells ‘hateful’ Marjorie Taylor Greene: Drop my song

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene might be a fan of Dr. Dre‘s music, but the Grammy-winning rapper has no love for the Georgia Republican using his hits for attention on social media.Days after California Rep. Kevin McCarthy secured the House Speaker position early Saturday morning, East Coast time, Greene took her celebration to social media. Monday morning she tweeted a video of herself walking the halls of Congress in slow motion and smiling at the result of McCarthy’s election. The score to her victory lap was the iconic…

Everything Everywhere All at Once co-director issues plea to film’s hateful fans

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeEverything Everywhere All At Once co-director Daniel Kwan has issued a message to the film’s more hateful fans.Kwan co-directed the film alongside Daniel Scheinert. Released earlier this year, it became a sleeper hit thanks to word-of-mouth buzz and acclaim.Unsurprisingly, the film is featured in lots of end-of-year lists that are ranking the best movies of 2022 (including The…

From shutting down services only in Texas to letting users opt out of hateful content, tech companies are gaming out responses to the…

Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: From shutting down services only in Texas to letting users opt out of hateful content, tech companies are gaming out responses to the state's social media law — Experts said the measure, which bars companies from moderating content, could prove challenging for platforms to deal with Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: From shutting down services only in Texas to letting users opt out of hateful content, tech companies are gaming out responses to the state's…

Britney Spears says her teenage kids are ‘hateful’, ‘rude’ towards her

Popstar Britney Spears further addressed her relationship with her children, noting that her Instagram posts are not why her kids don’t want to visit her. She denied that her nude photos on social media are the reason her two sons, Sean Preston and Jayden, don’t want to stay at her house anymore as their issues pre-date her more liberal usage of the photo-sharing app since she was released from the 14-year conservatorship that gave her father Jamie Spears control over her financial, health and professional…

Twitter accused of Elliot Page’s deadname trend despite its hateful conduct policy

Twitter is being accused of letting Elliot Page’s deadname trend for approximately 45 minutes despite the platform’s hateful conduct policy.The 35-year-old actor’s deadname – the name he used before coming out as a transgender man in 2020 – was trending on Twitter on Tuesday (5 July).According to Twitter’s hateful conduct policy, users are prohibited from “targeting others with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to dehumanise, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected…

NYU report details how influencers backing India's BJP have used YouTube to spread conspiracy theories and hateful content targeting…

Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg: NYU report details how influencers backing India's BJP have used YouTube to spread conspiracy theories and hateful content targeting Muslims and women in India — Influencers backing India's ruling Hindu nationalist party have used YouTube videos to spread conspiracy theories … Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg: NYU report details how influencers backing India's BJP have used YouTube to spread conspiracy theories and hateful content targeting Muslims and women in…

AI trained on 4chan’s most hateful board is just as toxic as you’d expect

Microsoft inadvertently learned the risks of creating racist AI, but what happens if you deliberately point the intelligence at a toxic forum? One person found out. As Motherboard and The Verge note, YouTuber Yannic Kilcher trained an AI language model using three years of content from 4chan's Politically Incorrect (/pol/) board, a place infamous for its racism and other forms of bigotry. After implementing the model in ten bots, Kilcher set the AI loose on the board — and it unsurprisingly created a wave of hate. In the…