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Celebrities Remember Lisa Marie Presley
Celebrities expressed shock and heartbreak on social media over the death of Lisa Marie Presley, the singer-songwriter and only child of Elvis Presley. “There is heartbreak and then there is sorrow. This would be sorrow and on more levels than I can count,” the Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan said late Thursday on Instagram, where […]
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Does Twitch Fame Have to Come With a Stalker?
Twitch is not unaware of the threats. A Twitch spokeswoman said the company planned in the coming months to livestream a session that will educate streamers about real-world risks. In recent years, it has increased its efforts to build safety into the platform, said Mr. Verrilli, the head of product. He noted, for example, a […]
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‘Wagatha Christie’ Trial: Judge Finds No Libel
LONDON — It began as an Instagram-related quarrel between the spouses of two British soccer stars and grew into a libel trial that provided a welcome distraction for a nation in turmoil. The High Court on Friday brought an end to the long-running legal feud by ruling against the plaintiff, Rebekah Vardy, saying that she […]
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Instagram rolls back some product changes after user backlash.
Instagram said on Thursday that it was rolling back several recent updates to its photo-sharing app after Kylie Jenner and other celebrities joined a user backlash against the changes and criticized the platform for trying to be too much like TikTok. Instagram said it would pause tests of full-screen photo and video posts, which the […]
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Instagram, Facing Criticism From Kylie Jenner and Others, Tries Explaining Itself
Instagram versus the Great Celebrity Gang-Up? The photo-sharing app, which is owned by Meta, found itself under fire this week over how it has changed over time. The pile-on started on Monday, when Kylie Jenner, the beauty mogul with 361 million Instagram followers, shared an image on the site that read: “Make Instagram Instagram again. […]
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J-Lo Is Now Jennifer Affleck. Why That Matters.
Yes, it’s sometimes complicated. My daughters have my first husband’s last name. (My opposition to the patriarchy succumbed to my reluctance to saddle another generation of women with my awful last name.) I have my last name. My husband has his. Buying plane tickets or showing up for parent-teacher conferences can be confusing. And I […]
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TikTok’s Amber Heard Hate Machine
Viewers assess both Depp and Heard’s court appearances as studied performances, but it is as if they have been cast in separate genres, with Depp playing the suave comedy hero and Heard pegged as the histrionic villain from an ’80s erotic thriller. YouTube thumbnails freeze their visages into masks of comedy and tragedy — he […]
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How Influencers Hype Crypto, Without Disclosing Their Financial Ties
Some of the projects that Mr. Armstrong promoted were small-time, experimental crypto ventures that eventually encountered problems. In those cases, he said, he considered himself a victim, too. “They’re preying on the novice crypto influencer who just got popular and is trying to figure out what they should and shouldn’t be doing,” he said. “It’s […]
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The Branded Marriage of Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker
This weekend, Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker got married for the third time, following a just-for-fun ceremony in Las Vegas with Elvis presiding and an intimate legal ceremony in Santa Barbara, Calif. But in every sense, this was the Big One — hosted at a castle in Portofino, Italy, and staged in front of a […]
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