Canadian Radio Station Apologizes for ‘Crude, Racist and Hateful Tweets’ From Hacked Account
“We at NEWS 95.7 sincerely apologize for the abhorrent content, and are working to ensure this does not happen again,” the station says
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Roku Pulls Alex Jones’ InfoWars Channel After Just 1 Day
Company says that it made the decision to pull channel after hearing from “concerned parties”
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Calls Out CBS News for Lack of Black Reporters: ‘Unacceptable’
“@CBSNews hasn’t assigned a *single* black journalist to cover the 2020 election,” Ocasio-Cortez scolded in a tweet
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How Instagram Has Given Classic Shows Like ‘Seinfeld’ and ‘The Simpsons’ a Second Life
Major fan accounts act as a 2019 version of re-runs for hundreds of thousands of followers
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AP Dinged for ‘Takes Two to Tango’ Tweet Blaming Democrats and Trump for Shutdown
“House and Senate have both passed $1.6 b bills. Trump could just accept them. Terrible tweet,” longtime Hillary Clinton aide Neera Tanden says
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Chicken Nugget Kid Dethroned by Japanese Entrepreneur for Most Retweeted Tweet Ever
The new tweet from billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is an offer in Japanese to give away free money
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Donald Trump Applauds Ex-New York Times Editor for Calling Paper ‘Unmistakably Anti-Trump’
“Horrible and totally dishonest reporting on almost everything they write. Hence the term Fake News,” President Trump tweets Saturday
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Surpasses Nancy Pelosi in Twitter Followers
On the same day, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy also welcomed the freshman Congresswoman to the Breakfast Club
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Instagram Boss Apologizes After Users Flip out Over Accidental Horizontal-Swipe Update
Company blames a “bug” for users receiving update that switches from vertical scrolling to horizontal swiping
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LinkedIn Co-Founder Apologizes for Funding Misinformation Campaign Against Roy Moore
Reid Hoffman says attempt to dissuade Alabama voters with phony Facebook and Twitter accounts was “disturbing”
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Was the Disney Careers Twitter Account Hacked by an Elon Musk Superfan?
“I’m leaving the post of director of Tesla due to the recent decision of the SEC,” the fake Musk blared to Disney Career’s 167,000+ followers
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Twitter Stock Tanks 11 Percent After Being Called ‘the Harvey Weinstein of Social Media’
One short-seller rips “toxic” company for its apparent inability to block abusive tweets aimed at women
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Sean Hannity Unfollows All But 3 Twitter Accounts in Mass Purge
Fox News host has dropped over 7,000 accounts during December
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Trump Unfollows Ann Coulter on Twitter After Months of Border Wall Criticism
“Trump voters are exhausted. If he gives them no reason to fight for him, they won’t,” Coulter tells TheWrap
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Trashes Politico for Anonymous Sourcing in ‘Junk Articles’
“We stand by our reporting,” a rep for Politico tells TheWrap
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NYT Writer Critical of White Men Blasts Twitter as ‘Misery Machine’
Sarah Jeong says Twitter has routinely failed to take action against racist trolls
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Twitter Shoots Down Trump’s Unfounded Claim That It’s ‘Much More Difficult’ to Follow POTUS’ Account
“Many prominent accounts have seen follower counts drop,” the social media giant notes
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Twitter Chief Responds to Criticism of Myanmar Meditation Vacation: I ‘Need to Learn More’
“I’m aware of the human rights atrocities and suffering in Myanmar,” Jack Dorsey says after previously not mentioning country’s mass slaughter of the Muslim Rohingya minority
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Vice News Story on Vacation Retreat That ‘Bans White People’ Sparks Outrage
“The individuals in this clip are REALLY bad representations of what it means to be ‘woke,'” says Playboy columnist Art Tavana
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Big Sean, Machine Gun Kelly to Be Featured in Thrillist’s New Digital Series ‘InstaChef’ (Exclusive)
Group Nine’s Thrillist announces four new shows as part of its first-ever content slate
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Kevin Hart Has Deleted Old Anti-Gay Tweets Since Landing Oscar Hosting Gig
GLAAD is currently in talks with Kevin Hart’s team, a person with knowledge of the situation tells TheWrap
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Fox News ‘Most Tweeted About News Outlet’ of 2018 Despite Weeks-Long Boycott
Fox News has not tweeted anything since Nov. 8
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‘Saturday Night Live,’ ‘Roseanne’ Are 2018’s Most-Tweeted-About TV Shows
“Game of Thrones” still manages to hit No. 9 with no new episodes
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Eric Trump Calls Out Kellyanne Conway’s Husband for ‘Utter Disrespect’ in Anti-Trump Administration Comments
George Conway has constantly criticized President Trump in recent months, creating headaches for his wife
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Tim Cook Tells White Supremacists They ‘Have No Home’ on Apple Platforms
“It’s the right thing to do,” Apple CEO says
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Laura Loomer Handcuffs Herself to Twitter’s New York Office to Protest Permanent Suspension
“You’re censoring and banning conservatives!” right-wing activist shouted
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Ice T Finally Ate a Bagel and He’s Not a Fan: ‘Why Would I Eat an Unsweetened Donut?’ (Video)
Rapper-actor also has some unfiltered thoughts about black coffee
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Steve Mnuchin Deletes GM-Bashing Retweet, Suggests His Account Was Hacked
“Someone other than the Secretary or an individual with authorized access to his account” sent the retweet, Mnuchin says in an update
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Conservatives Upset After Twitter Bans Right-Wing Radio Host Jesse Kelly
Social platform declines to tell TheWrap what the pundit said to violate its rules
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‘Aladdin’ Writer Terry Rossio Criticized for Using N-Word on Twitter
Oscar-nominated screenwriter used the word in an argument about vaccinations
