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Monday marks the 2021 iteration of International Women’s Day, with this year’s theme set as “choose to challenge.” Early in the day, the official Twitter account for Burger King’s UK division drew attention after sharing a tweet stating “women belong in the kitchen,” which launched a thread about the brand’s plans for IWD 2021. The […]
Twitter has announced the launch of Birdwatch, a feature where a select few users will be allowed to fact-check tweets with misleading or downright incorrect information. “Birdwatch allows people to identify information in Tweets they believe is misleading or false, and write notes that provide informative context,” Twitter Vice President of Product Keith Coleman wrote in a blog […]
Jeopardy champion and interim host Ken Jennings issued an apology via Twitter Wednesday in response to “some unartful and insensitive things” he tweeted over the last several years. Jennings explained that his previous practice of deleting certain tweets while keeping others to “be dunked on” created a misconception about his understanding of the backlash he received in […]
JT of City Girls has returned to her verified Twitter account after briefly hitting the pause button. As you may or may not recall, Monday brought with it a smattering of reports about JT having apparently ditched her account amidst the resurfacing of old tweets. While plenty criticized the nature of the tweets, which ranged […]
Dionne Warwick can’t stop thinking about Chance the Rapper. On Saturday night, the legendary singer hit up Twitter to ask the Chicago MC about the redundancy of his rap alias. “Hi, @chancetherapper,” Warwick wrote. “If you are very obviously a rapper why did you put it in your stage name? I cannot stop thinking about this.” In a […]
Keke Palmer is being widely and passionately criticized for sharing a fairly Republican-sounding take on EBT cards. Early Monday morning, Palmer decided now was the time to seemingly ignore the existence of food deserts. “Imagine if your EBT card could only work on healthy items,” Palmer said in the tweet receiving the most attention. Prior to […]
Early though it may be, the bad tweets have already started. On the morning of the 2020 presidential election, politics and sports commentator Keith Olbermann shared a clip of Fox & Friends hosts speaking by phone with the current POTUS, who criticized the typically pro-Trump network for having “changed a lot.” Trump also complained about the […]
Fort Bragg’s official Twitter account was deactivated Wednesday afternoon, following a series of lewd messages posted to the page. Twitter users noticed that around 4:30 p.m. ET, the military base’s verified account began responding to another account featuring adult content. User @Quinnfinite10 had shared a post about an individual who had complained about the pubic hair displayed on her OnlyFans page. […]
Though Kanye West has absolutely no chance of winning the 2020 election, the “Birthday Party” candidate has dumped a fair amount of money into his presidential bid. Journalist Ben Jacobs points to a newly filed Federal Election Commission report that reveals West personally spent $3 million on his campaign in September and raised only $2,782 during that month. Of the […]
Fans of Billie Eilish have come together to fight against a now viral tweet that body shames the singer. The tweet in question comes from the Twitter user @GamesNosh, a man who claims to be a former games journalist. “In 10 months Billie Eilish has developed a mid-30’s wine mom body,” wrote the 29-year-old man, […]
