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Social media personality Courtney Clenney has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder with a deadly weapon, months after the death of her 27-year-old boyfriend Christian Obumseli. The 26-year-old, who goes under the name Courtney Tailor on Instagram, was arrested in Laupahoehoe, Hawaii, Wednesday after Miami-Dade County prosecutors issued a warrant for her arrest in […]
A person was allegedly fired by his employer for reaching his workplace late for the first time in more than seven years. The incident was shared by one of the colleagues of the fired employee on Reddit. The post has been shared on the Antiwork forum on Reddit where the user revealed that the employee […]
30-year-old Julia Forat is making more than £700 a month with rare talent of blowing giant bubbles of chewing gum which has made her quite popular on social media. The German woman, who at one time, chews up to 30 chewing gums and blows bubbles twice the size of her head, clicks pictures of her […]
Twitter spent $33 million on Elon Musk’s proposed deal to buy the firm between April and June 2022. It also said its number of monthly daily users had risen to 237 million but it reported a net loss of $270 million, which was worse than expected. Mr Musk has since changed his mind about the […]
Indian police briefly arrested YouTuber Gaurav Taneja (Flying Beast) after his followers thronged a metro station to celebrate his birthday. The incident occurred in Uttar Pradesh’s Noida. Taneja allegedly through Instagram told his followers that he would celebrate his birthday at the Noida metro station among fans. Following this, thousands of people reached the Sector […]
The families of two young girls who allegedly died as a result of a viral TikTok challenge have sued the social media platform, claiming its “dangerous” algorithms are to blame for their children’s deaths. Parents of two girls who died in a 2021 “blackout challenge” on TikTok, which encouraged users to choke themselves until they […]
In an attempt to quell public concern about cyberbullying, Japan has passed legislation making “online insults” punishable by imprisonment. The bill, passed by the Japanese government on Monday, has amended the country’s penal code and will take effect this summer. According to the Japan Times, the amendment comes as a response to the death of […]
A Chinese national has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for torturing local mineworkers in Rwanda after a video showing him whipping a man tied to a post went viral on social media. Sun Shujun, the manager of a mine in the west of the country, was convicted on Tuesday along with an accomplice […]
The brother of murdered social media star Qandeel Baloch has been freed by a Pakistan appeals court, three years after he was convicted of killing her for “bringing dishonor” to the family. Baloch’s murder in 2016 sparked a national outcry and promoted changes in the country’s so-called ‘honor killing’ laws. The court order is yet […]
Animal charity the RSPCA has taken West Ham defender Kurt Zouma’s pet cats away after videos emerged on social media of him kicking and slapping one of them. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is liaising with Essex Police about the incident. “The two cats are now in RSPCA care,” said […]
The social media giant TikTok on Tuesday explicitly banned certain types of anti-LGBTQ content and speech on its platform. In updated community guidelines, the company noted that it is “adding clarity on the types of hateful ideologies prohibited on our platform,” stating that it will ban deadnaming, or using a transgender person’s pre-transition name, and […]
Thousands in South Korea have signed a petition calling for more action on cyber-bullying in the wake of two celebrity deaths. Both volleyball player Kim In-hyeok and YouTuber Cho Jang-mi, who died within a day of each other, are thought to have taken their own lives. Both had been targeted with hate comments online. Cyber-bullying […]