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'Hawk Tuah Girl' sells more than $65,000 in merch after viral interview

"Hawk Tuah Girl" Hailey Welch went viral when she shared her explicit thoughts on oral sex during a woman-on-the-street spot with Tim & Dee TV.

Vital 'Hawk Tuah Girl' gets interest from Hollywood agencies after NSFW stunt

According to an insider, the phlegm fatale is being handled by literary power agent Byrd Leavell, who also represents, er, President Trump and Cat Marnell.

Wikipedia's lefty slant measured in new study — but I've felt its bias firsthand

Being a conservative with a Wikipedia entry means that everyone who meets you has already read a hit piece about you, crowdsourced by potentially hundreds of people determined to promote...

Caribbean island benefiting from AI boom in a 'totally incidental' way

Haydn Hughes, Anguilla's minister of tourism and infrastructure, said it was "totally incidental" that Anguilla was granted the .ai domain code in 1995.

New York teen's murder photos went viral, prompting mom to help change law: 'Can't let that picture be online'

Kim Devins campaigned to get Bianca's Law passed in 2022 after photos of her daughter's murder were circulated online by the killer.

Hooray for Hochul: New York leads nation in protecting kids on social media

Hand it to Gov. Hochul for wrangling the Legislature into passing first-in-the-nation legislation to regulate social-media feeds for younger kids.

Remote Amazon tribe finally connects to internet — only to wind up hooked on porn, social media

“We’re worried young people are going to want to try it,” on tribe leader said of the kinky sex acts they've suddenly been exposed to on screen.

'China's Kim Kardashian' banned by Beijing from social media for flaunting his wealth

Wang Hongquanxing, who has earned the moniker "China's Kim Kardashian" for his overt displays of wealth, was abruptly taken off China's social media sites for bragging about the large amounts...

Save our kids from social media despair

We have an opportunity to set an example for generations to come, and we won’t back down from this fight — our kids deserve nothing less. 

Google, Meta warned that undersea internet cables at risk for Chinese espionage: report

The concerns are reportedly centered on underwater fiber-optic cables in the Pacific Ocean that are partially owned by the Big Tech firms and used to maintain the flow of data...

Meta, Google leading nearly $1M lobbying fight to kill NY online child safety bills

“This is an astonishing amount of money to be spent to kill two reasonable bills,” said one longtime Albany insider who requested anonymity to discuss the lobbying push.

This business offered free wine in its fine print — and you won't believe how long it took anyone to notice

An offer to claim a free bottle of “good wine” sat hidden in the privacy agreement of a company’s website for months before someone finally spotted it  — proving almost...

Grandma thought she was texting with Robert De Niro — but her granddaughter saw through the scam

He made her an offer she (almost) couldn't refuse.

FCC reinstates net neutrality rules -- and move is slammed: 'Power grab, plain and simple'

Net neutrality rules were first imposed during the Obama administration in 2015 but were repealed in 2017 after the Trump administration flipped control of the FCC.

Net neutrality push is yet another big-government power-grab by Biden

With the swearing-in of President Biden's nominee Anna Gomez as commissioner last September, the Federal Communications Commission has the numbers to reinstate "net neutrality."

Web searches for VPNs swell 400% in Texas as Pornhub blocks access

Google data reveals a sudden rise in search traffic in Texas for VPNs just days after Pornhub and other affiliated adult websites pulled out of the Lone Star State over...

Red Sea cables damaged, causing 'significant' disruption to global internet traffic

Undersea cables in the Red Sea -- the invisible forces powering the internet -- have been damaged, causing "significant" disruption to global telecommunications networks.

Social media CEOs won't stop their products from harming kids until they're forced to

CEOs of social-media companies gave testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on what they're doing to prevent harm to children who use their sites.

How David Dobrik became Gen Z’s problematic prankster | Loved & Hated YouTube Stars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt7TLhfNAGA How did David Dobrik go from an innocent jokester on Vine to a “problematic” YouTube prank-sensation? Since 2013, Dobrik has amassed a huge following of more than 25 million...