John Cena has a rosy reputation: Beloved 16-time champion pro wrestler, blockbuster movie star, Guinness World Record-holder for the most wishes granted through the Make-a-Wish foundation (he’s the organization’s most-requested celebrity). In the eyes of the public, he’s a wholesome, all-American entertainer.
So why is he following prominent white supremacists, antisemites, and hate accounts on X (formerly Twitter)? It’s probably not on purpose. If, as seems more than probable, these accounts were indiscriminately followed by Cena’s team without knowledge of the content they share, it...
So why is he following prominent white supremacists, antisemites, and hate accounts on X (formerly Twitter)? It’s probably not on purpose. If, as seems more than probable, these accounts were indiscriminately followed by Cena’s team without knowledge of the content they share, it...
- 8/26/2024
- by Miles Klee
- Rollingstone.com
Sheffield DocFest today announced the full industry program for its 31st edition, a lineup of panel discussions, marketplace sessions, live pitch forums, the annual Filmmaker Challenge, marketplace rough cuts and more.
The industry program runs concurrently with the festival from June 12-17. DocFest last week revealed a slate of 109 films that will be showcased in the 2024 event, including 49 world premieres.
“The Industry program dives into the business of documentary in all its many forms,” a release noted, “complimenting the previously announced film program, exploring the skills and techniques behind many of this year’s films…” [Scroll for the full lineup].
‘Sarah Everard: The Search for Justice’
Among the intriguing panel discussions is one set for Thursday, June 13 titled “Women in the Frame: Representing Women in Crime Documentaries,” which will include the participation of Kirsty Cunningham, creative director of the documentary Sarah Everard: The Search for Justice. That BBC Studios film, which premiered in the U.
The industry program runs concurrently with the festival from June 12-17. DocFest last week revealed a slate of 109 films that will be showcased in the 2024 event, including 49 world premieres.
“The Industry program dives into the business of documentary in all its many forms,” a release noted, “complimenting the previously announced film program, exploring the skills and techniques behind many of this year’s films…” [Scroll for the full lineup].
‘Sarah Everard: The Search for Justice’
Among the intriguing panel discussions is one set for Thursday, June 13 titled “Women in the Frame: Representing Women in Crime Documentaries,” which will include the participation of Kirsty Cunningham, creative director of the documentary Sarah Everard: The Search for Justice. That BBC Studios film, which premiered in the U.
- 5/15/2024
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
One construction worker was killed in a building collapse in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn on Friday afternoon, local news outlets reported. But the tragic accident led misinformation accounts and conspiracy theorists on X (formerly Twitter) to falsely claim the incident had taken place in Crown Heights, concocting a wholly fake story about the tunnel beneath the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in Crown Heights suddenly caving in.
As the Borough Park commotion drew hordes of emergency responders, social media vultures went to work, misrepresenting the footage of ambulances, firefighters,...
As the Borough Park commotion drew hordes of emergency responders, social media vultures went to work, misrepresenting the footage of ambulances, firefighters,...
- 2/3/2024
- by Miles Klee
- Rollingstone.com
Substack said that it will remove some publications that support Nazis from its services after backlash over the company’s initial refusal to remove accounts that endorse Nazi ideology, Platformer reports.
The company was adamant that the decision was not a reversal of it previous comments, per Platformer, but a reconsideration of how its policies are interpreted. In a statement to the technology newsletter, Substack’s co-founders said that “when we become aware of other content that violates our guidelines, we will take appropriate action.” The statement continued: “We sincerely...
The company was adamant that the decision was not a reversal of it previous comments, per Platformer, but a reconsideration of how its policies are interpreted. In a statement to the technology newsletter, Substack’s co-founders said that “when we become aware of other content that violates our guidelines, we will take appropriate action.” The statement continued: “We sincerely...
- 1/9/2024
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
As verified accounts on X, formerly Twitter, continue to spread misinformation on the violent conflict between Hamas and Israel, Elon Musk directed his nearly 160 million X followers to follow accounts known for disseminating lies.
“For following the war in real-time, @WarMonitors & @sentdefender are good,” Musk posted on X Sunday morning. He added, “It is also worth following direct sources on the ground. Please add interesting options in replies below.”
In his own post, CNN’s Jake Tapper took a screenshot of Musk’s post next to a screenshot of a...
“For following the war in real-time, @WarMonitors & @sentdefender are good,” Musk posted on X Sunday morning. He added, “It is also worth following direct sources on the ground. Please add interesting options in replies below.”
In his own post, CNN’s Jake Tapper took a screenshot of Musk’s post next to a screenshot of a...
- 10/8/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has been at pains to lure back advertisers who deserted the platform in droves after Elon Musk‘s takeover, slashing the site’s revenue in the process. Last month, the company even rolled out expanded features for brands, including tools to help keep their ads away from undesirable content like hate speech.
But those measures have proven wildly ineffective so far, at least where one major ad partner — the NFL — is concerned. Reports from Media Matters reveal that X has been serving the...
But those measures have proven wildly ineffective so far, at least where one major ad partner — the NFL — is concerned. Reports from Media Matters reveal that X has been serving the...
- 9/28/2023
- by Miles Klee
- Rollingstone.com
While much of America enjoyed a relaxing Labor Day weekend of cookouts and beach trips, X (formerly known as Twitter) owner Elon Musk was doubling down on his absurd claims that the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish nonprofit, had somehow tanked the website he personally ran into the ground.
The accusations began last week, after Adl director Jonathan Greenblatt had a meeting with X CEO Linda Yaccarino to discuss the prevalence of hate speech on the platform. This kicked off a trending hashtag campaign, #BanTheADL, predicated on the groundless idea that...
The accusations began last week, after Adl director Jonathan Greenblatt had a meeting with X CEO Linda Yaccarino to discuss the prevalence of hate speech on the platform. This kicked off a trending hashtag campaign, #BanTheADL, predicated on the groundless idea that...
- 9/6/2023
- by Miles Klee
- Rollingstone.com
A hashtag campaign pushed by right-wing ideologues and rife with antisemitic content is trending on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, and being shown support by owner Elon Musk. It’s a new low for a platform that has seemingly abandoned the fight against hate speech.
On Thursday, a number of accounts began tweeting #BanTheADL, calling on Musk to remove the Anti-Defamation League (Adl) from the site. The Adl is a civil rights organization focused on combating antisemitism and extremism. Momentum for the action seems to have been stirred...
On Thursday, a number of accounts began tweeting #BanTheADL, calling on Musk to remove the Anti-Defamation League (Adl) from the site. The Adl is a civil rights organization focused on combating antisemitism and extremism. Momentum for the action seems to have been stirred...
- 9/1/2023
- by Miles Klee
- Rollingstone.com
In August 2020, Instagram influencer Aliza Jane appeared on No Jumper, the massively popular podcast whose content bounces from hip-hop to current events to, more recently, the odd appearance by alt-right polemicists. During her episode, Jane discussed alleged sexual encounters with multiple members of the Phoenix Suns basketball team, and said R&b singer Trey Songz held her in a hotel against her will and urinated on her. Songz denied all of the allegations, but the comments went viral, causing Jane, she says, to lose her job and get kicked out of her parents’ home.
- 6/1/2023
- by Andre Gee
- Rollingstone.com
No Jumper, a popular podcast whose roots are in hip-hop culture, has allegedly transitioned into a platform for white supremacy, antisemitism, and misogyny, according to a Media Matters for America investigation. The news site, which describes itself as “a progressive research center that monitors, analyzes, & corrects right-wing misinformation,” points to interviews that host Adam Grandmaison, aka Adam22, has conducted with Nick Fuentes, Richard Spencer, and members of the Nation of Islam in which each expressed bigoted viewpoints that Grandmaison did not challenge. “Did I just do my part to sort...
- 3/30/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
“Nirvana Baby” Spencer Elden has appealed the court’s most recent dismissal for his child pornography lawsuit.
Elden featured on the cover of the band’s the legendary 1991 album Nevermind when he was just four months old, with the album art depicting a naked baby swimming to reach for a dollar bill.
In 2021, Elden filed a lawsuit claming that the album artwork causes him “extreme ongoing psychic or emotional injury”.
It was dismissed in September by a federal judge who claimed that the artwork did not constitute as child pornography and that Elden had waited too long to make the claims.
This was the third time Elden had filed a case against the band and had it rejected. After his case was dismissed, the judge told him he was not able to file again.
As a result, Elden has now appealed the dismissal. The appeal reportedly references Masha’s Law,...
Elden featured on the cover of the band’s the legendary 1991 album Nevermind when he was just four months old, with the album art depicting a naked baby swimming to reach for a dollar bill.
In 2021, Elden filed a lawsuit claming that the album artwork causes him “extreme ongoing psychic or emotional injury”.
It was dismissed in September by a federal judge who claimed that the artwork did not constitute as child pornography and that Elden had waited too long to make the claims.
This was the third time Elden had filed a case against the band and had it rejected. After his case was dismissed, the judge told him he was not able to file again.
As a result, Elden has now appealed the dismissal. The appeal reportedly references Masha’s Law,...
- 12/8/2022
- by Megan Graye
- The Independent - Music
Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin has been reinstated to Twitter under Elon Musk’s new policies for the platform. The founder of the white supremacist website The Daily Stormer had been banned from Twitter since 2013.
Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin, who was booted off Twitter in 2013, has had his account restored. pic.twitter.com/sEv5UDVUw2
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) December 2, 2022
Anglin has publicly indicated that the goal of his operation and adherence to white nationalist ideology is to “ethnically cleanse White nations of non-Whites and establish an authoritarian government. Many people also believe...
Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin, who was booted off Twitter in 2013, has had his account restored. pic.twitter.com/sEv5UDVUw2
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) December 2, 2022
Anglin has publicly indicated that the goal of his operation and adherence to white nationalist ideology is to “ethnically cleanse White nations of non-Whites and establish an authoritarian government. Many people also believe...
- 12/2/2022
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
Peacock announced that the new docuseries “Paris in Love” will begin streaming Nov. 11, with new episodes dropping every following Thursday.
The 13-part wedding series will follow Hilton as she discovers the road to the altar has a few unexpected turns along the way as she prepares to marry successful venture capitalist Carter Reum. In the midst of planning for the wedding, fans will watch as Hilton navigates adulthood, a demanding work schedule and plans for her future. Hilton’s mother Kathy Hilton and sister Rothschild Hilton will support her through it all, from her engagement part to bridal dress shopping to the bachelor and bachelorette party in Las Vegas.
From Warner Bros. Unscripted Television in association with Shed Media, Telepictures and Slivington Manor Entertainment, “Paris in Love” is executive produced by Mike Darnell, Lisa Shannon, Dan Peirson, Bridgette Theriault, Andrea Metz, Perry Dance, Paris Hilton and Bruce Gersh. Watch a trailer for the series below.
The 13-part wedding series will follow Hilton as she discovers the road to the altar has a few unexpected turns along the way as she prepares to marry successful venture capitalist Carter Reum. In the midst of planning for the wedding, fans will watch as Hilton navigates adulthood, a demanding work schedule and plans for her future. Hilton’s mother Kathy Hilton and sister Rothschild Hilton will support her through it all, from her engagement part to bridal dress shopping to the bachelor and bachelorette party in Las Vegas.
From Warner Bros. Unscripted Television in association with Shed Media, Telepictures and Slivington Manor Entertainment, “Paris in Love” is executive produced by Mike Darnell, Lisa Shannon, Dan Peirson, Bridgette Theriault, Andrea Metz, Perry Dance, Paris Hilton and Bruce Gersh. Watch a trailer for the series below.
- 10/26/2021
- by Katie Song
- Variety Film + TV
The University of Florida was roiled in the fall of 2017 when Richard Spencer tried to bring his white nationalist roadshow onto the school’s campus. He’d just made his way through Charlottesville, Virginia, that summer for the Unite the Right rally, and many were worried that a Spencer-led rally could lead to violence on campus. University President Ken Fuchs initially tried to prevent Spencer from speaking, but in the end he allowed it. There was nothing he could do. The First Amendment is the First Amendment.
“The University of...
“The University of...
- 6/29/2021
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
“White Noise” director Daniel Lombroso’s interest in the alt-right started in 2016, five months before Donald’s Trump’s election. Working as a reporter for The Atlantic magazine, he spent three years in the field, starting his research on Reddit and 4chan before gaining the trust of three of the movement’s brightest stars: Richard Spencer, organizer of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville; social media personality Mike Cernovich; and Canadian activist Lauren Southern.
“It was a slow process,” says Lombroso. “People had this idea that Trump had radical supporters, but no one had defined it. I was 23 years old at the time and I saw people my age [that were] really energized by this candidate that no one expected to win. I started with the profile of Richard Spencer and caught a room full of people doing Nazi salutes [at a conference in Washington], which went viral. It clarified that it was fundamentally a white nationalism movement.
“It was a slow process,” says Lombroso. “People had this idea that Trump had radical supporters, but no one had defined it. I was 23 years old at the time and I saw people my age [that were] really energized by this candidate that no one expected to win. I started with the profile of Richard Spencer and caught a room full of people doing Nazi salutes [at a conference in Washington], which went viral. It clarified that it was fundamentally a white nationalism movement.
- 11/18/2020
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Rabbit holes have been on Daniel Lombroso’s mind during the last four years. Perhaps they’ve been there longer since his awareness of the alt-right predates his work on the new documentary White Noise. Yet ever since a fateful day in 2016, when he pointed a camera at a band of young white American men offering up their arms in a Nazi salute, he’s thoroughly explored one of the darkest rabbit holes in 21st century Western culture—and he’s shined a light on how so many got there, only to spread more hate out of it.
A perfect example comes midway through White Noise. Using what Lombroso cites as a strong tool for any cinema vérité documentarian, the montage, he tracks how one of the movie’s primary subjects, alt-right personality Mike Cernovich, spent the final months of the 2016 presidential campaign tweeting across the internet an erroneous smear about Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
A perfect example comes midway through White Noise. Using what Lombroso cites as a strong tool for any cinema vérité documentarian, the montage, he tracks how one of the movie’s primary subjects, alt-right personality Mike Cernovich, spent the final months of the 2016 presidential campaign tweeting across the internet an erroneous smear about Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
- 10/26/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Half a decade ago, the ascendance of the alt-right was about as plausible as the election of Donald Trump, and we all know how that worked out. Like the 2016 election, director Daniel Lombroso’s provocative alt-right portrait “White Noise” isn’t all that surprising, but that doesn’t lessen the terror within. In capturing the racist trifecta of alt-right pundits Mike Cernovich, Laura Southern, and Richard Spencer, the documentary shows how they became emboldened by celebrity stature, and comes so close to letting them run the show it risks trumpeting their cause. Fortunately, it doesn’t take the most discerning bullshit detector to realize that “White Noise” has been engineered to expose a fundamental danger to whatever moral fabric America has left.
However, for the lucky few who somehow avoided any of this movie’s subjects and their small armies of white nationalist devotees, “White Noise” provides a handy primer...
However, for the lucky few who somehow avoided any of this movie’s subjects and their small armies of white nationalist devotees, “White Noise” provides a handy primer...
- 10/20/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Mere hours after the President of the United States turned an opportunity to denounce the rise of white supremacist thinking in America into a chance to tell a hate group to “stand back and standby,” a new look at an upcoming documentary aims to shed some light on the very people most thrilled by the possibility of a white supremacist government: the alt-right. In “White Noise,” directed and shot by Daniel Lombroso in his directorial debut, viewers will go inside a spreading movement, bolstered by social media’s reach and a cadre of outspoken “leaders” who think nothing of spewing hate to anyone who will listen.
The film is also The Atlantic’s first feature documentary and is billed as the “definitive inside story of the movement that has come to be known as the alt-right.” Lombroso’s film follows three of the movement’s biggest “stars,” including “Mike Cernovich,...
The film is also The Atlantic’s first feature documentary and is billed as the “definitive inside story of the movement that has come to be known as the alt-right.” Lombroso’s film follows three of the movement’s biggest “stars,” including “Mike Cernovich,...
- 9/30/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
In one extended sequence of the 2017 documentary “Angry, White, and American,” Black British journalist Gary Younge faces off with alt-right leader Richard Spencer, who, at one point, says, “Look at the life of any African American living in the United States. It’s far better than any African living in Africa.”
Translation: Slavery was good. His words are a thinly veiled justification for Black bondage and a warning to Black Americans to be grateful for how good they’ve had it here. Spencer is saying that by enslaving Black Africans and bringing them to the New World back in the 1600s, White Americans and Europeans were saving them from “a world of dread and fear,” to quote the overarching presentation of the entire African continent offered by Band Aid in the 1984 charity single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”
Beyoncé Knowles’ latest project, “Black Is King,” could double as a delayed response to such nonsense.
Translation: Slavery was good. His words are a thinly veiled justification for Black bondage and a warning to Black Americans to be grateful for how good they’ve had it here. Spencer is saying that by enslaving Black Africans and bringing them to the New World back in the 1600s, White Americans and Europeans were saving them from “a world of dread and fear,” to quote the overarching presentation of the entire African continent offered by Band Aid in the 1984 charity single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”
Beyoncé Knowles’ latest project, “Black Is King,” could double as a delayed response to such nonsense.
- 7/31/2020
- by Jeremy Helligar
- Variety Film + TV
In “White Noise,” Daniel Lombroso’s lively and disturbing documentary portrait of three alt-right influencers, there’s a riveting scene in which Richard Spencer, a rock star of white nationalism who talks like a noodgy corporate assistant and has meticulous gelled hair that’s supposed to be his designer version of a Hitler fade (though Hitler didn’t have James Garner’s sideburns), is getting ready to give a speech at Michigan State University. In the white-cinder-block green room, he goes into a panic when he learns that there’s a riot taking place outside, with hundreds of students protesting his appearance.
You’d think he might welcome the publicity; Steve Bannon certainly would. But Spencer, who is basically an overblown trust-fund kid, is terrified that he’s going to be blamed for another disaster like the one that happened in Charlottesville, Va., when Heather Heyer, who was protesting against...
You’d think he might welcome the publicity; Steve Bannon certainly would. But Spencer, who is basically an overblown trust-fund kid, is terrified that he’s going to be blamed for another disaster like the one that happened in Charlottesville, Va., when Heather Heyer, who was protesting against...
- 7/11/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
In this week’s quarantine episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Adolph Reed, political science professor from the University of Pennsylvania.
Before getting into the details later, at the top of the show our hosts allude to Matt’s recent Substack piece. “I sort of got canceled again a little bit,” says Matt.
“Because of your White Fragility piece?” asks Katie.
“Yeah. But that’s Ok; I’m going to set the all-time record hopefully.”
Our duo have a lengthy discussion...
Before getting into the details later, at the top of the show our hosts allude to Matt’s recent Substack piece. “I sort of got canceled again a little bit,” says Matt.
“Because of your White Fragility piece?” asks Katie.
“Yeah. But that’s Ok; I’m going to set the all-time record hopefully.”
Our duo have a lengthy discussion...
- 7/3/2020
- by Reed Dunlea and Daniel Halperin
- Rollingstone.com
YouTube banned six channels yesterday for violating its policies with respect to hate speech.
The channels in question, per Variety, belong to Richard Spencer and his National Policy Institute organization, former Ku Klux Klan head David Duke, Canadian white nationalist Stefan Molyneaux, and white supremacist group American Renaissance as well as an affiliated channel for its podcasts.
YouTube first took action to update its policies around hate speech roughly a year ago, banning creators and videos “alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion” on the basis of protected attributes like age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, and more. The policy also expressly prohibits videos positing that events like the Holocaust and the Sandy Hook shooting didn’t happen.
When trying to load the above channels, a message now reads, ‘This account has been terminated due to multiple or severe violations of...
The channels in question, per Variety, belong to Richard Spencer and his National Policy Institute organization, former Ku Klux Klan head David Duke, Canadian white nationalist Stefan Molyneaux, and white supremacist group American Renaissance as well as an affiliated channel for its podcasts.
YouTube first took action to update its policies around hate speech roughly a year ago, banning creators and videos “alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion” on the basis of protected attributes like age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, and more. The policy also expressly prohibits videos positing that events like the Holocaust and the Sandy Hook shooting didn’t happen.
When trying to load the above channels, a message now reads, ‘This account has been terminated due to multiple or severe violations of...
- 7/1/2020
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
It’s a tale of two Richard Spencers. One is Donald Trump’s former Navy Secretary and the other is a well-known white nationalist — and MSNBC confused one for the other.
On Sunday morning, MSNBC was reporting on a story about former Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, who was fired last week after he wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post about Trump’s intervention in the case of Navy Seal member Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher, who was accused of war crimes. During the story, MSNBC accidentally posted an image of white supremacist Spencer.
MSNBC’s Joy Reid didn’t waste any time to address the snafu at the end of the segment. “I want to make a quick correction – a pretty big correction,” she said. “Earlier in the segment as we were talking about former Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, we mistakenly showed the wrong image of white supremacist Richard Spencer.
On Sunday morning, MSNBC was reporting on a story about former Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, who was fired last week after he wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post about Trump’s intervention in the case of Navy Seal member Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher, who was accused of war crimes. During the story, MSNBC accidentally posted an image of white supremacist Spencer.
MSNBC’s Joy Reid didn’t waste any time to address the snafu at the end of the segment. “I want to make a quick correction – a pretty big correction,” she said. “Earlier in the segment as we were talking about former Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, we mistakenly showed the wrong image of white supremacist Richard Spencer.
- 12/1/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
MSNBC is apologizing for an on-air mishap Sunday morning regarding former Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer.
During Sunday's Am Joy, Joy Reid was reporting on Spencer's criticisms of President Donald Trump that he penned in his Washington Post op-ed after recently being fired by the Trump administration over the president’s decision to reverse the demotion of Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher.
Though the network played a video centered on Spencer in their segment, the image showed a photo of white supremacist Richard Spencer instead. The latter made headlines last month after rival Milo Yiannopoulos leaked a tape on YouTube ...
During Sunday's Am Joy, Joy Reid was reporting on Spencer's criticisms of President Donald Trump that he penned in his Washington Post op-ed after recently being fired by the Trump administration over the president’s decision to reverse the demotion of Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher.
Though the network played a video centered on Spencer in their segment, the image showed a photo of white supremacist Richard Spencer instead. The latter made headlines last month after rival Milo Yiannopoulos leaked a tape on YouTube ...
- 12/1/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
You may have heard that Kickstarter has had some internal strife recently, which has included some recent firings of various people who have been involved in efforts to unionize the workforce there. Those workers, and the union they have been working with, filed a charge with the National Labor Relations Board accusing the crowdfunding company of wrongfully terminating them.
As a company, Kickstarter has been helpful to the comics and publishing ecosystem, helping thousands of projects find both funding and an audience, raising over $15 million for comics last year alone. We here at ComicMix have raised over $150,000 on Kickstarter for various projects, contributed to other campaigns both personally and corporately, and helped others raise more for their projects. And right now, I’m writing a short story for a campaign that ends in less than three days, Pangaea:
Clearly, they’re an important platform for comics. But, as Slate reported,...
As a company, Kickstarter has been helpful to the comics and publishing ecosystem, helping thousands of projects find both funding and an audience, raising over $15 million for comics last year alone. We here at ComicMix have raised over $150,000 on Kickstarter for various projects, contributed to other campaigns both personally and corporately, and helped others raise more for their projects. And right now, I’m writing a short story for a campaign that ends in less than three days, Pangaea:
Clearly, they’re an important platform for comics. But, as Slate reported,...
- 9/17/2019
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
America had the greatest orator in modern presidential history working in the Oval Office for eight years, and millions of white people spent virtually all that time getting angrier. Violent right-wing extremism is bursting the nation at the seams, and has for generations now. We didn’t need last weekend’s twin mass shootings to know that dangerous rhetoric can end lives. The question for politicians, in the immediate aftermath, has been what words to use to try to save them. Or, perhaps, just to get elected.
Just after noon Pacific time on Monday,...
Just after noon Pacific time on Monday,...
- 8/8/2019
- by Jamil Smith
- Rollingstone.com
The Economist magazine apologized on Thursday over an interview with Ben Shapiro that originally referred to the conservative commentator and Daily Wire editor-in-chief as an “alt-right sage” and “a pop idol of the alt right.”
“This article has been changed. A previous version mistakenly described Mr Shapiro as an ‘alt-right sage’ and ‘a pop idol of the alt right’. In fact, he has been strongly critical of the alt-right movement. We apologise,” read an editor’s note now affixed to the top of the piece.
The new title was amended to call Shapiro a “radical conservative.”
Also Read: The Economist Apologizes for Tweet Asking Whether Transgender People Should Be 'Sterilized'
“Inside the mind of Ben Shapiro, the alt-right sage without the rage,” read the tweet from the British newsmagazine.
“Mr Shapiro not only courts controversy, he relies on it. It serves as an opening salvo to be heard above the din in digital media,...
“This article has been changed. A previous version mistakenly described Mr Shapiro as an ‘alt-right sage’ and ‘a pop idol of the alt right’. In fact, he has been strongly critical of the alt-right movement. We apologise,” read an editor’s note now affixed to the top of the piece.
The new title was amended to call Shapiro a “radical conservative.”
Also Read: The Economist Apologizes for Tweet Asking Whether Transgender People Should Be 'Sterilized'
“Inside the mind of Ben Shapiro, the alt-right sage without the rage,” read the tweet from the British newsmagazine.
“Mr Shapiro not only courts controversy, he relies on it. It serves as an opening salvo to be heard above the din in digital media,...
- 3/28/2019
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
A few minutes before announcing that he crossed the 65,000 unique donation threshold necessary to qualify for the first two Democratic debates, 2020 longshot candidate Andrew Yang tweeted that he thought Nicolas Cage may have sent some money his way. Late last week, I confirmed with Cage’s manager that Cage does indeed support Yang’s bid for the Oval Office. In the days since I tweeted the news, I’ve been flooded with notifications from members of the #YangGang, an inscrutable online contingent of supporters who love Yang’s keystone promise...
- 3/20/2019
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
Indecline, the artist collective best known for clandestinely installing statues of naked Donald Trump across America, has moved into performance art. Of course, their fierce political approach — and taste for the grotesque — hasn’t gone anywhere.
Inspired by Cardi B’s tweet-threat that she would “dog walk” Fox News host Tomi Lahren if she didn’t leave the Grammy winner alone, 20 white men donned T-shirts, Maga hats and custom collars and were paraded down the Hollywood Walk of Fame by people of color and members of the queer community. Each collar,...
Inspired by Cardi B’s tweet-threat that she would “dog walk” Fox News host Tomi Lahren if she didn’t leave the Grammy winner alone, 20 white men donned T-shirts, Maga hats and custom collars and were paraded down the Hollywood Walk of Fame by people of color and members of the queer community. Each collar,...
- 3/4/2019
- by Elisabeth Garber-Paul
- Rollingstone.com
On Friday night, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-hi) told CNN’s Van Jones that she plans to run for president and that a formal announcement is forthcoming. “There is one main issue that is central to the rest, and that is the issue of war and peace,” the 37-year-old Iraq War veteran said. “I look forward to being able to get into this and to talk about it in depth when we make our announcement.”
Though Gabbard has fashioned herself as an anti-Trump progressive, this past weekend was filled with revelations...
Though Gabbard has fashioned herself as an anti-Trump progressive, this past weekend was filled with revelations...
- 1/14/2019
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
Tiny penises may soon be trending.
On Wednesday, the painter Illma Gore unveiled the first of what will be 26 depictions of political and cultural figures, both contemporary and historic, ranging from international terrorists to saints to superheroes. The roster includes Harvey Weinstein, Brett Kavanaugh, Richard Spencer and Osama Bin Laden, along with Darth Vader, Superman, Albert Einstein, Pope Benedict XVI and Jesus Christ. There’s just one catch — they’re all being painted nude, with extremely tiny penises.
Small-genitalia portraiture is a familiar dive into controversial waters for Gore — she is,...
On Wednesday, the painter Illma Gore unveiled the first of what will be 26 depictions of political and cultural figures, both contemporary and historic, ranging from international terrorists to saints to superheroes. The roster includes Harvey Weinstein, Brett Kavanaugh, Richard Spencer and Osama Bin Laden, along with Darth Vader, Superman, Albert Einstein, Pope Benedict XVI and Jesus Christ. There’s just one catch — they’re all being painted nude, with extremely tiny penises.
Small-genitalia portraiture is a familiar dive into controversial waters for Gore — she is,...
- 12/6/2018
- by Michael Stahl
- Rollingstone.com
In “Alt-Right: Age of Rage,” screening at the Ji.hlava doc fest, director Adam Bhala Lough takes on the machinations of white power leader Richard Spencer, balancing his philosophies against the views of Daryle Lamont Jenkins – a spokesperson for the anti-fascist movement Antifa – who has tirelessly exposed the group who led the Charlottesville march last year that ended in the death of protester Heather Heyer and dozens of injuries. How did you arrive at the structure of “Alt-Right: Age of Rage,” in which you alternate between the white power leader Spencer and Antifa member Jenkins? Were their personalities important in deciding this way to tell the story? It was organic. We had a lot of characters but it felt unfocused. We honed it down to those two. We felt they represented their sides well, and the polar extremes of America. What was the most disturbing thing for you personally to...
- 10/27/2018
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Jeffrey Winder was found guilty of misdemeanor assault in February for punching white-nationalist organizer Jason Kessler in August 2017. On Tuesday, a jury ruled that his punishment will be a whopping $1 fine.
Kessler attempted to hold a press conference in Charlottesville, Virginia, the day after Heather Heyer was killed by a white supremacist who drove his car into a group of people protesting the white nationalist rally organized by Kessler’s “Unite the Right” group. Winder was among the protesters who showed up to stop Kessler from making a statement, punching...
Kessler attempted to hold a press conference in Charlottesville, Virginia, the day after Heather Heyer was killed by a white supremacist who drove his car into a group of people protesting the white nationalist rally organized by Kessler’s “Unite the Right” group. Winder was among the protesters who showed up to stop Kessler from making a statement, punching...
- 9/6/2018
- by Lilly Dancyger
- Rollingstone.com
Twitter put their thumb on the scale over the controversy surrounding Sarah Jeong, officially verifying the newest member of the New York Times editorial team earlier this week.
Jeong, who spent most of her existence online without official verification as a senior writer at The Verge and elsewhere will now enjoy the all the algorithm privileges afforded to the platform’s elite group of blue check holders. She was not verified as of Aug. 13, 2018, according to an internet archive snapshot.
A spokesperson for Twitter told TheWrap that the request for verification came in through The NY Times, which was standard for their reporters and that it subsequently went through the normal verification process.
Also Read: NY Times' New Hire Sarah Jeong Trashed Paper's Op-Ed Writers in Old Tweets: 'Absolute Nitwit'
While Twitter has gone through various forms of distributing the coveted blue check, it has increasingly become a mark of endorsement by the social network,...
Jeong, who spent most of her existence online without official verification as a senior writer at The Verge and elsewhere will now enjoy the all the algorithm privileges afforded to the platform’s elite group of blue check holders. She was not verified as of Aug. 13, 2018, according to an internet archive snapshot.
A spokesperson for Twitter told TheWrap that the request for verification came in through The NY Times, which was standard for their reporters and that it subsequently went through the normal verification process.
Also Read: NY Times' New Hire Sarah Jeong Trashed Paper's Op-Ed Writers in Old Tweets: 'Absolute Nitwit'
While Twitter has gone through various forms of distributing the coveted blue check, it has increasingly become a mark of endorsement by the social network,...
- 8/16/2018
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
“I think there is blame on both sides. You look at, you look at both sides. I think there’s blame on both sides, and I have no doubt about it, and you don’t have any doubt about it either,” President Trump told a room full of reporters at a press conference following the Unite the Right white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, which resulted in the vehicular homicide of Heather Heyer. Occurring nearly one year ago today, the event was a chilling reminder of the festering hatred of the alt-right that has been invigorated by Trump and his rhetoric.
At this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival, director Adam Bhala Lough (The New Radical) premiered a new documentary Alt-Right: Age of Rage, which explores this divide in our country–one of, if not the first, to specifically look at the tragedy in Charlottesville in feature-length form. Featuring interviews...
At this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival, director Adam Bhala Lough (The New Radical) premiered a new documentary Alt-Right: Age of Rage, which explores this divide in our country–one of, if not the first, to specifically look at the tragedy in Charlottesville in feature-length form. Featuring interviews...
- 7/26/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
A Teen Vogue contributor faced a permanent ban from Twitter this week after comments they made about “trans exclusionary radical feminists” (more commonly known online as “TERFs”). As the name suggests Terf’s do not believe transgender women should be part of mainstream feminism and have been a point of controversy within feminist theory for a decade.
“If any TERFs like or retweet this, I’m shoving my foot up your ass,” said writer Danielle Corcione in a tweet. Corcione told the Daily Dot that the comment was a joke within a longer thread and a reference to the “That ’70s Show” character Red Forman.
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In a note from Twitter, the platform told Corcione they were suspended because the tweet ran afoul of rules prohibiting “specific threats of violence” or wishing for “the physical harm, death or disease of an individual or group of people.
“If any TERFs like or retweet this, I’m shoving my foot up your ass,” said writer Danielle Corcione in a tweet. Corcione told the Daily Dot that the comment was a joke within a longer thread and a reference to the “That ’70s Show” character Red Forman.
Also Read: Judge Suspends Closure of BuzzFeed France
In a note from Twitter, the platform told Corcione they were suspended because the tweet ran afoul of rules prohibiting “specific threats of violence” or wishing for “the physical harm, death or disease of an individual or group of people.
- 7/7/2018
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
This week, watch Pete Hammond reviews of the basketball comedy Uncle Drew as well as Dominic Patten’s thoughts on the season 5 premiere of Power. There are also new episodes of the New Hollywood Podcast and the Crew Call Podcast for your ears as well as Deadline’s Contenders Emmys video series for your viewing pleasure.
In addition to catching up on our weekly video series The Actor’s Side, Next Generation TV, Behind The Lens, and Production Value, make sure you watch reviews of Uncle Drew and Power below.
This week on the New Hollywood Podcast, Amanda N’Duka and I welcomed stand-up comedian and United Shades of America host W. Kamau Bell to talk about his CNN series as well as his comedy career as well as his experiences interviewing members of the Kkk and Richard Spencer.
On the Crew Call Podcast, The People v. O.J. Simpson:...
In addition to catching up on our weekly video series The Actor’s Side, Next Generation TV, Behind The Lens, and Production Value, make sure you watch reviews of Uncle Drew and Power below.
This week on the New Hollywood Podcast, Amanda N’Duka and I welcomed stand-up comedian and United Shades of America host W. Kamau Bell to talk about his CNN series as well as his comedy career as well as his experiences interviewing members of the Kkk and Richard Spencer.
On the Crew Call Podcast, The People v. O.J. Simpson:...
- 6/30/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Stand-up comedian and activist W. Kamau Bell is known for many projects. He has two podcasts: “Politically Re-Active” with Hari Kondabolu as well as “Denzel Washington Is The Greatest Actor Of All Time Period” with Kevin Avery. He also has his own comedy special Private School Negro which debuts today on Netflix. He combines his talent for socio-political commentary and comedy in United Shades of America, a different kind of CNN travel series that dives into lives of different communities around the country….and it all started with an episode where he talked to members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Bell visited the New Hollywood Podcast to talk about United Shades of America and his experience in witnessing a cross burning and spending time with the Kkk in the deep South. The gut-wrenching episode still resonates three years later — he still gets messages from people who are worried about his well-being from that episode.
Bell visited the New Hollywood Podcast to talk about United Shades of America and his experience in witnessing a cross burning and spending time with the Kkk in the deep South. The gut-wrenching episode still resonates three years later — he still gets messages from people who are worried about his well-being from that episode.
- 6/26/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos and Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Despite being billed as a documentary about the subject, Alt-Right: Age of Rage doesn’t know what to make of the modern day neo-Nazi movement. At least some of the film’s subjects would resist the label, saying that the purpose of the alt-right is to protect European heritage, just as they would tell you that the Civil War and Confederate flag have nothing to with slavery. You can’t win an argument with the brainwashed, but the film–to its credit–gives an equal platform to those leading the white nationalist movement and their opposition: organizations like Antifa and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The documentary focuses largely on the face of the alt-right movement and instant meme Richard Spencer, a University of Chicago-educated “academic” quick to call someone a “cuck,” but barely able to recognize the death of Heather Heyer as a tragedy. The documentary allows...
The documentary focuses largely on the face of the alt-right movement and instant meme Richard Spencer, a University of Chicago-educated “academic” quick to call someone a “cuck,” but barely able to recognize the death of Heather Heyer as a tragedy. The documentary allows...
- 3/24/2018
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Since August of last year, the so-called alt-right has become an unavoidable tumor on the American conscience. In the wake of the Charlottesville protests, where Heather Heyer was killed by a white supremacist who drove his car into a group of counter-protesters, coverage of, and conversation about, the alt-right has grown tenfold. Profiles of the likes of Richard Spencer and Milo Yiannopoulos appeared on front pages everywhere and, at a point, some began to argue that such journalism was normalizing these extremist ideologies.
- 3/22/2018
- by Gary Garrison
- The Playlist
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