Author: Michael Clarke

RUSSIAN TROLLS ARE making the most of the free-for-all on far-right social media apps to unfold pro-Kremlin propaganda — they usually have been notably profitable when impersonating followers of MAGA musician Child Rock. These conclusions are from a brand new report by the social media monitoring agency Graphika and Stanford College’s Web Observatory. The researchers traced not less than 35 accounts on the right-wing social apps to the Newsroom for American and European Primarily based Residents (NAEBC), a phony information group linked to Russia’s troll manufacturing facility. The faux accounts centered on ginning up assist for failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate…

The tragedy sparked a motion to finish gun violence that has by no means been extra strong. Ten years later, it is seen some successes, however gun deaths stay at a historic excessive “IT’S A SHITTY time of 12 months.” It’s a Friday in early December, and I ask Nelba Márquez-Greene how she’s doing. In roughly two weeks, it will likely be 10 years since her daughter, Ana, was killed on the bloodbath at Sandy Hook Elementary Faculty. She’s keeping off interview requests from information producers casually asking if she’s obtainable to inform their viewers “slightly about what that day…

ELON MUSK SOLD round $3.6 billion value of shares of his flagship firm Tesla this week, regardless of reassuring buyers in April that he had “no additional TSLA gross sales deliberate” after he secured the funds to accumulate Twitter in a $44 billion deal. The sale was revealed in an SEC submitting submitted by Musk displaying that between Monday and Wednesday he offloaded round 22 million shares of the electrical automobile firm. The whole worth of Musk’s Tesla inventory gross sales this yr is estimated to quantity to round $40 billion. Tesla’s inventory has underperformed an already struggling tech market…

DONALD TRUMP EARLIER this week on Reality Social teased that he’d be making a “MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT” on Thursday, prompting questions as to what on Earth the previous president was as much as. Is it a rally tour? Is it his candidacy for Home speaker? Is it one thing dumber and extra pathetic than anybody might have anticipated? Sure, after all it was. It’s a Donald Trump Digital Buying and selling Card NFT Assortment. The previous president on Thursday rolled out a brand new line of NFTs, together with an infomercial-caliber video asserting that they may very well be had for…

PROGRAMMER JACK SWEENEY initially created the Twitter bot “@ElonJet” as a result of he was a fan of Elon Musk. The success of @ElonJet prompted him to start monitoring different movie star plane via using publicly out there, open-source aviation information. Drake, Mark Cuban, Jeff Bezos, Taylor Swift, and Russian oligarchs all acquired the Jack Sweeney @CelebJets remedy. On Wednesday, @ElonJet was completely suspended from Twitter, regardless of Musk beforehand writing that he would go away the account as much as show his dedication to free speech. Afterward Wednesday, Sweeney himself was suspended, and revealed to The New York Instances…

SPANNING MYRIAD GENRES — from famous person pop, hip-hop, and Afropop, to indie-rock, Ok-pop, reggaeton, R&B, and reggae — Rolling Stone‘s record of the Prime 100 albums of 2022 might be our most musically various year-end round-up ever. Within the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, we zero in on that record’s Prime 50, discussing every album, enjoying music samples, and extra. Julyssa Lopez, Brittany Spanos, Andre Gee, and Simon Vozick-Levinson be part of host Brian Hiatt for the dialog, which counts down from Sasami’s hard-rock stunner Squeeze to Beyoncé’s house-infused masterpiece Renaissance. To listen to the…

AS THE EIGHTIES started winding down, Bootsy Collins was in his ingredient throughout nights in town in Washington, D.C. Flashing his signature star-shaped shades, in keeping with one report, he was chilling with fellow musicians — together with some who’d performed with Miles Davis — and sharing tales about his former boss and colleague George Clinton from their Parliament-Funkadelic days. On occasion he’d slip into one of many giddy, over-the-top voices heard on Bootsy stompers like “Bootzilla.” And he was residing as massive as one would anticipate: “We’re gonna have enjoyable with this plastic right here!” he advised a crowd…

The unique music broke information because the most-streamed Spanish-language music by a feminine artist on Spotify LA ROSALÍA + + La Cardi = the very best early Christmas present. On Thursday, Rosalía launched a remix of “Despechá,” her fan-favorite music from Motomami+, with visitor vocals and rap verses from Cardi B. The brand new observe is an upbeat, dance-ready model of the unique hit. A real collab, Rosalia permits Cardi to each sing and rap on the observe because the “WAP” rapper interprets Rosalía’s lyrics as she sings in Spanglish, “Child, please don’t name me. Why you on my line?…

Twitter suspended a number of high-profile journalists Thursday because the platform’s new proprietor falsely accused them of getting endangered his household TWITTER SUSPENDED A slew of distinguished journalists Thursday, as billionaire and self-avowed free speech fanatic Elon Musk silenced a number of of his high-profile critics. New York Instances reporter Ryan Mac, The Washington Submit’s Drew Harwell, Mashable’s Matt Binder, CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan, The Intercept’s Micah Lee, political commenter Keith Olbermann, unbiased journalist Aaron Rupar, and freelance journalist Tony Webster have been faraway from the platform. In response to Breitbart‘s Rebecca Mansour concern over the suspensions, Musk declared a…

The monitor was penned by Abel Tesfaye and produced by his frequent collaborators Swedish Home Mafia together with composer Simon Franglen, who supplies the rating for the movie. Not too long ago, the Weeknd hinted at his involvement within the long-in-the-works sequel when he shared a 12-second clip, that includes a refrain sings as a visible of a watery, blue “A” with a chicken in the course of the letter seems. He captioned it “12.16.22,” a date that additionally seems in direction of the tip of the video. Shortly after sharing his mysterious video, Tesfaye retweeted the official account for…