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Donald Trump didn’t write Katie Porter’s requiem post on social media. But throw in a few misspellings and capitalized letters, and he very well could have.“Because of you, we had the establishment running scared,” she told supporters of her unsuccessful U.S. Senate bid in a statement Wednesday night on X. This, Porter continued, despite her being massively outspent on TV and facing an “onslaught of billionaires spending millions to rig this election.”That word — rig — suggesting there was something illicit, fishy or not…

President Joe Biden has a message for the right-wing conspiracy theorists who were convinced he was rigging the Super Bowl in favor of Taylor Swift’s boyfriend: The plan went off without a hitch.Is Threads a Threat to Twitter? | Future TechShortly after the Super Bowl ended on Sunday, Biden gleefully trolled those who accused him and the Democrats of running a “Taylor Swift election interference psyop.” According to the theory, Biden orchestrated the victory of the Kansas City Chiefs, where Swift’s boyfriend Travis Kelce…

Donald Trump claimed that he was merely doing his “duty” as president by alleging that the 2020 presidential election was “rigged” and “stolen,” therefore believes he deserves “immunity” from prosecution. “I wasn’t campaigning, the Election was over. I was doing my duty as President to expose and further investigate a Rigged and Stolen Election. It was my obligation to do so, and the proof found is voluminous and irrefutable,” the former president wrote in a Truth Social post Sunday morning. “Therefore, among other…

Japanese automaker Daihatsu, a Toyota subsidiary, has suspended shipments of all cars amid a safety test-rigging scandal. Toyota subsidiary Daihatsu said Wednesday it will suspend shipments of all car models in Japan and abroad, following news it had rigged safety tests.…

Meta Platforms will let political ads on Facebook and Instagram question the legitimacy of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, one of several changes the social-media company and other platforms have made to loosen constraints on campaign advertising for 2024.Meta made the change last year, but it hasn’t gained wide attention. The company decided to allow political advertisers to say past elections were “rigged” or “stolen” but prevented them from questioning the legitimacy of ongoing and coming elections. Copyright ©…

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Idaho senator Jim Risch, the top Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee—who also serves on the Intelligence Committee—says he’d be surprised if they didn’t mimic the digital pressure campaign that experts say caused the bank runs. “We see all kinds of input from foreign actors trying to do harm to the country, so it’s really an obvious avenue for somebody to try to do that,” Risch says.Some experts think the threat is real. “The fear is not overblown,” Peter Warren Singer, strategist and senior fellow at New…

Fox News is currently in a heated defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems over allegations it helped spread the election denier conspiracy.Photo: Michael M. Santiago (Getty Images)Fox News needs to present a specific face to its audience. It’s one of grievance and hurt, of a changing world that is changing too damn fast. Though all too often, the entire network strays into the absurd, whether it’s guests going on about “climate vaccines” or its hosts like Tucker Carlson going off about being “turned off” by a…

Image: Noh Juhan/NetflixHere’s the good news for Netflix’s upcoming reality game show based on the hit Korean thriller Squid Game: unlike the original series, no one involved appears to have been brutally murdered. The bad news, however, is that on top of reports that its contestants claimed to have suffered intensely during filming, now claims are being made the game wasn’t even fair.In a lengthy report over at Rolling Stone, several anonymous players have said they witnessed several contestants being given special…

The founder of Stanbic IBTC, Atedo Peterside, has said that corrupt practices perpetrated by some highly connected Nigerians are the underlying causes of poverty in Nigeria. The renowned investment banker and economist said this on Monday at a plenary session of the Nigerian Economic Summit held in Abuja. Mr Peterside identified oil theft and other fraudulent activities surrounding fuel subsidy and foreign exchange as the three points of “rigged prosperity” where the well-connected impoverish many Nigerians as a…