The British Parliament launched a TikTok account in July 2022, but deleted it within days after lawmakers protested about the app's links to China. Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The UK Parliament deleted its TikTok account after lawmakers protested. Internal communications obtained by Insider reveal that it expected it would be controversial. It suggested […]
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Controversial social media app Parler is back on the Google Play Store
Parler, the app that's largely associated with Donald Trump supporters, conservatives and far-right extremists, is once again available for download via the Google Play Store. Billing itself as a "free speech network", Parler was banned and removed from the Android app store in January [2021] after the US Capitol insurrection. A Google spokesperson said at […]
Sen. Rick Scott says he has a ‘strategic disagreement’ with Mitch McConnell and tells other Republicans to ‘pipe down’ with ‘treasonous’ criticism of the party’s controversial Senate candidates
Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky at a press conference on Capitol Hill on May 17, 2022. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Republicans are increasingly criticizing their party's controversial, unpopular Senate nominees. Even Mitch McConnell has noted that the Senate may not flip this year, citing "candidate quality." But […]
Too Hot to Handle’s Francesca Farago Defends Her Most Controversial Moves: ‘I Don’t Regret Anything That I Did’
Heads up, all you chickens and geezers: We’re about to spoil Netflix’s Too Hot to Handle. If you haven’t completed your binge, you might want to… Retreat. Putting aside the season’s official outcome, no one on Too Hot to Handle played the game as well as breakout star Francesca Farago. Over the course of eight […]
Facebook to pull controversial data-collection app for iOS
Hours after reports of a data-collection research app involving teens, Facebook says it will be discontinuing the app on the iOS platforn.Read More
Red Lobster will no longer advertise on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show after he made controversial comments about women’s pay and immigrants
Hollis Johnson Red Lobster is no longer advertising on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show, the chain told Business Insider Monday. The seafood chain follows at least 19 other advertisers that have cut advertising on the show since December, including IHOP, Minted, and the jobs site Indeed. The Fox News host sparked backlash recently for blaming […]
Australia’s controversial anti-encryption bill passes into law
The Australian government has passed the controversial Access and Assistance Bill 2018 into law. Since it gives authorities the right to demand access to encrypted forms of communication and to slap companies that refuse to cooperate with fines up to $ 7.3 million, it prompted tech giants like Apple to voice their opposition. Cupertino criticized […]
Tyson Fury demands controversial judge who cost him Deontay Wilder victory is SACKED
Mexican judge Alejandro Rochin scored the fight in Wilder’s favour despite the feeling that Fury had down enough after rising from the canvas TWICE, including in the 12th round. And Fury wants him out of the sport and has told him to go to Specsavers. He said: “I’ve never seen a worse decision in my […]
Tyson Fury FLOORED by Deontay Wilder TWICE with rematch on cards after controversial DRAW
Wilder downed Fury in the ninth round of their heavyweight contest at the Staples Center in the early hours of Sunday morning. And the American put Fury to the canvas in the 12th too – before Fury heroically got back to his feet to soldier on. To that point, Fury had appeared to dominate but […]
‘Your land, your future’! Germany offers migrants cash to go home in controversial ad campaign
As Germany still struggles to balance its migration policy, the Interior Ministry has apparently decided to take one of the issues into its own hands and, through an ad campaign, boost the numbers of voluntary repatriations. The ministry, led by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Bavarian ally Horst Seehofer, decided to lure potential repatriates with a supposedly […]