Culture
Twitter and “fact-checker” pushed false claims about the Colorado shooter
The arbiters of truth fail to fact-check their own posts.
Brian Stelter expresses concern about cancel culture
“No one wins in the purity wars,” one of the biggest proponents of cancel culture says.
Facebook scrubs the page of Colorado shooting suspect Ahmad Al Issa
The page was deleted as his social media posting history was under scrutiny.
North Wales teacher suspended for blog posts critical of prom and school “failings”
Suspended for two years.
Harry’s pulls sponsorship of The Michael Knowles Show after complaint from Twitter account with two followers
The men’s razor brand caved.
San Francisco School Board VP, and critical race theory supporter, faces calls to resign over tweets about Asians
The machine begins to eat itself.
Trial begins into UK police officer charged with sharing an “offensive” George Floyd meme
The judicial system in the country is accused of not having its priorities right.
Republican lawmakers send another letter to Amazon, demanding answers on book censorship
The letter is addressed to Jeff Bezos.
Student banned from Aberdeen University’s union for two weeks for writing “Rule Britannia” in webchat
Increasingly common in education.
Virginia teachers plot to dox and hack websites of parents who oppose “critical race theory”
The teachers are being investigated by police.
New Teen Vogue editor-in-chief Alexi McCammond resigns over decade-old tweets
The tweets were posted when she was a teenager.