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The day after New York-based pickets were canceled for the week because of smoke, the gathering at Warner Bros. in Los Angeles was a bit smaller on Thursday, with less than 50 people gathering in support of the WGA strike. One bright spot was the so-called “Bike Strike” protest that rolled through…

Percy Hynes White, who played Xavier Thorpe on Season 1 of Netflix hit “Wednesday,” has issued a statement addressing social media posts regarding alleged sexual assaults. The 21-year-old White was accused in several tweets posted in January of alleged sexual activities with several women, among them…

Shannen Doherty says the breast cancer with which she was first diagnosed in 2015 has spread to her brain, and shared an emotional video describing her fear as she undergoes treatment. The 52-year-old actress best known for Beverly Hills, 90210 and Charmed wrote on her Instagram page that a January…

Tucker Carlson launched his promised new show on Twitter on Tuesday with talk of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, UFOs, who killed JFK and what really went down on 9/11 — and the former Fox News host was a hit. In its first four hours-plus, the low-tech 10-minute video posted on the Elon Musk-owned…

Get that woman some skates. CBS News Miami reporter Samantha Rivera pulled a move worthy of a burly NHL defenseman as she fended off an aggressive fan seeking to get into her live shot from the NHL Finals on Monday in Las Vegas. Related Story Lopsided NBA And NHL Playoff Series Point…

YouTube will no longer remove videos claiming the 2020 U.S. presidential election was stolen. The video platform said in a blog post that it previously removed “tens of thousands” of videos that questioned elections since it implemented the policy in December 2020. Now, YouTube “will stop…

New Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino will have some key staffing roles to fill when she finally takes the reins this month. Twitter’s head of brand safety and ad quality, A.J. Brown, has decided to leave the company, the Wall Street Journal reported. That follows the departure of Ella Irwin, who…

Emma Heming Willis has told her online followers that a clinical trial searching for a cure for frontotemporal dementia – a debilitating brain disease affecting her husband, Bruce Willis – has ended. Bruce Willis retired from acting at age 68 earlier this year because of the disease’s progress…

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is blasting Elon Musk after the Twitter owner interacted with a parody account impersonating the U.S. congressional representative. “FYI there’s a fake account on here impersonating me and going viral. The Twitter CEO has engaged it, boosting visibility,” AOC tweeted. “It is…

Twitter is worth only about one-third of what Elon Musk and 19 co-investors paid to acquire it last fall, according to a new disclosure by one of its investors. Fidelity, which helped back the $44 billion takeover led by Musk, has marked down its investment numerous times in the intervening months. A…

Elon Musk’s Twitter platform could potentially be banned in Europe if it doesn’t follow the disinformation rules. The threat comes from France’s Digital Minister Jean-Noël Barrot who recently talked about the importance of following guidelines to combat fake news on social media. “Disinformation is…

While Succession patriarch Brian Cox has called co-star Jeremy Strong’s method acting “f***ing annoying” and last week complained Logan Roy was killed off “ultimately too early,” it seems those irritants did not define Cox’s experience on the show. Quite the opposite. In an Instagram story posted…