Culture
State-owned China news outlet ratioed on Twitter after continuously claiming “Chinese virus” is racist
Twitter users have responded by slamming the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for lying about the coronavirus and filling the tweet’s replies with memes.
Wikipedia proposes renaming its Spanish flu article to “1918 influenza pandemic”
The proposal comes as many are amplifying claims from Chinese-state media that calling the coronavirus “the Chinese virus” is racist.
The internet is calling out coronavirus offenders who are going viral in more ways than one
The virus is bringing out the worst in people.
Coronavirus memes are driving awareness
Hygiene, panic-buying, and working from home are all getting the meme treatment.
Streamer Annarf explains why simps are bad for society
Annarf describes the problems they cause.
Chief of Google-funded think talk resigns after tweet wishing President Trump dies
Berin Szoka later apologized.
Equity’s Race Equality Committee resigns after Twitter attack on Laurence Fox
The now-disgraced group had called on actors to “denounce” Fox.
UK delinquents use Instagram to taunt police
The criminals are confident the police won’t do anything.
In a bid to dunk on gamers, journalists fall for a parody
Journalists took it seriously.
WWW inventor Tim Berners-Lee makes patronizing remarks that the internet has failed “women and girls”
Berners-Lee made the remarks on the 31st birthday of the world wide web.
ProjektMelody suspended on Twitch
The suspension comes less than a week after ProjektMelody first streamed on the platform.