Today, an ad started widely circulating on Twitter, purportedly from the Clinton campaign, featuring a tatted up, gelled, almost harassingly bearded man. “I’m man enough to vote for a woman...” it reads. “Are you?” The Clinton campaign confirms to Jezebel that this is not a real ad. Come on, guys.
Trolls don’t respond to reasonable explanations, pleas for compassion, or even a firm blocking. Maybe they’ll respond to this track from The Julie Ruin that sounds like a hundred mallards are playing kazoos in the background.
Justin Timberlake (aka DAD) and all his dancing friends catch major happy-dance vibes in the video for his Trolls soundtrack single “Can’t Stop the Feeling,” which sounds like a commercial jingle for Doublemint, the Gap or Best Buy.
On Monday, the Guardian launched a new series focused on internet abuse and harassment called “The Web We Want,” by turning inward.
Literally, who are all of you? A survey released on Monday at SXSW revealed some of the answers to this question.
Amid Venezuela’s acute economic crisis, President Nicolás Maduro decided there was one Very Important Thing he needed to do before dealing with diving oil prices, the subsequent possible 6000 percent rise in gas prices, or the $2.3 billion the country is expected to pay to investors by a February 26 deadline. And what…
Twitter is notoriously terrible at dealing with harassment, so much so that the company has felt it necessary to build more tools and hire more employees to deal with the problem. On Tuesday, the company unveiled its new terms of service in an effort to double down on its commitment to the issue.
Martin Shkreli has a lot of money that in a just society he would not have. He found a decent use for some of it recently, when he relinquished a reported $2 million to the Wu-Tang Clan in exchange for an exclusive album that is probably not very good anyway. But Shkreli has come up with an even better use for the…
The recent hyper-scrutiny of newly pregnant supermodel Chrissy Teigen proves there is nothing too inconsequential to be tsked tsked over when you are with child, down to the nutritional content of a single bowl of blended cereal.
Today is a really great day.
Robert Pattinson is featured on the cover of the latest NME, where he talks about his experience dealing with Internet trolls and reading nasty, racist comments about himself and fiancée FKA Twigs.
The next time one of Nicki Minaj’s photos appears on your Instagram feed, click to view all the comments and scroll through a few pages. Scattered among the instances of “QUEEN” and “nicki i luv u come to iran,” you’ll find plenty of haters saying things like, “ew,” “u look like a ugly horse,” and “u r fat.”
After weeks of turmoil and bad press and many, many outraged posts by very angry people without a sense of precisely what free speech protections Americans are afforded by the Bill of Rights, Reddit has announced some proposed changes to its content policy. Basically, the current thinking is they’ll lock the really…
This week’s Inside Amy Schumer featured a sketch about an important issue that many don’t know about: the death of hundreds of thousands of women in sexy rodeo accidents. Accidents that end not just in painful deaths, but embarrassing ones, as less attractive women are gored and decapitated by mechanical bulls in…
In the past several months, Twitter’s announced that it’s going to do more to make trolling less of an issue on their social media platform. A new announcement, however, suggests that the company may be making it easier than ever for strangers to contact you even if you don’t follow them back.
This is ridiculous, but it might be fun, so bear with me. Last night my husband and I got into a discussion about our faces. To be more specific, he's objectively a traditionally handsome man (as evidenced by the fact that people regularly hire him to host television shows) but believes that people — including me —…
Insurgent star and longtime University of Kentucky basketball fan Ashley Judd received some ugly March Madness-themed Twitter backlash during Sunday's SEC Tournament championship game.
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo just admitted something many people have been saying for a long time: Twitter is awful when it comes to abuse and harassment. But Costolo, who admits that the awful behavior of trolls is driving users away, is taking personal responsibility and plans to change how Twitter deals with users…
Single Man, Married Man is a new, yawnily retrograde dating guide written By Men For Women. With the tagline "Every Man Wants to Get Married: Why Not With You?," the book purports to spill important relationship secrets revolving around the fact that "it takes a lot to hold [men's] attention, and men tend to lose…
