Planting spies, paying people to post on social media, and pretending the news doesn’t exist: This is how China tries to distract people from human rights abuses

Kevin Frayer/Getty The Chinese Communist Party is keen to portray itself as a peaceful and scandal-free power. It refuses to acknowledge its human rights abuses, and discrimination against LGBT community and feminists. It’s not easy to do in the digital age, where nearly half of China’s citizens use the internet. These are four of the […]

Mick Mulvaney Is Pretending Everything’s Totally Normal at Work

There are currently two people claiming to be in charge of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It’s up to a judge to decide who’s correct—Leandra English, who was promoted by the agency’s outgoing director, or Mick Mulvaney, the Trump administration’s pick—but for now, it’s Mulvaney who’s actually leading the agency. And he’s ready to change […]

The Buccaneers offensive line pranked their rookie teammates by pretending to leave them with a $26,000 bill

Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images Pranking rookies is an NFL tradition as old as football itself, and on Wednesday night the Tampa Bay Buccaneers got a couple of their rookies good. According to ESPN’s Jenna Laine, the Buccaneers offensive line was dining out at a Ruth’s Chris Steak House in Jacksonville and told the two undrafted rookies on […]

Pretending To Be Yoko Taro Is Hard Work 

GIF [GIF via スクウェア・エニックス] Is Yoko Taro really going to take off that mask and reveal his face? Nope! That isn’t the mysterious Yoko under the Nier mask, but Platinum Games’ Hideki Kamiya. Advertisement Yoko helmed Nier: Automata, of course, with Platinum developing the game. Kamiya agreed to appear on the title’s most recent live […]

The Voice UK: Viewers SLAM Gavin Rossdale for pretending to play guitar with Bush

Fans of the ITV singing competition were less than pleased with Gavin’s performance after he took to the stage with his band Bush to perform new track Mad Love. Many took to Twitter to criticise the performance, with quite a few picking up on the fact that it didn’t look like the guitar he was […]