#public-backlash

#public-backlash

Last month, AI startup Friend launched an eyebrow-raising advertising campaign in the New York City subway, which drew a striking amount of hatred. The largely white billboards left a convenient amount of room for passersby to air their feelings about the privacy-infringing tech. As such, it didn't take long for handwritten scribbles to cover the ads. "Befriend something alive," one pen-wielding tagger wrote. "AI wouldn't care if you lived or died," another vandal raged.

If you haven't already heard of Friend, the company that makes a $129 wearable AI companion-a plastic disk, containing a microphone, on a necklace-you probably also have not seen Friend's recent ad campaign. Late this past summer, Friend paid $1 million to plaster more than 10,000 white posters throughout the New York City subway system with messages such as I'll binge the entire series with you.

On Friday night's edition of Real Time on HBO, Jones said: Iran and Qatar have come up with a disinformation campaign that they are running through TikTok and Instagram that is massive. If you are a young person, you are opening up your phone, and all you see is dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby, Diddy, dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby. The comments received heavy criticism as Jones was called out for turning dead children into a punchline.

Rowling wrote the Harry Potter book series that catapulted Emma to global fame when she was cast as one of the leading roles in the movie adaptations at age 10. In recent years, Rowling has become somewhat of a divisive public figure, particularly due to her commitment to speaking on and funding anti-trans causes in the UK, including her support of a case that made it to the Supreme Court and successfully argued that trans women should not be legally considered women.

In March of this year, Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, announced an "open casting call" to his thirty-three million followers on X. Anyone thinking of showing up for the casting call had plenty of reasons to be wary. Previous Kanye West music videos had included one in which he and the rapper Lil Pump wear ridiculous boxy costumes and impish grins while sexually harassing a gigantic Adele Givens; one in which Teyana

So it's about 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem, and Jesus shows up and he starts talking about the people in power, and he starts doing the worst thing that you can do, which is telling the truth about people, and they hate it and they just go bonkers. They hate it, and they become obsessed with making him stop. This guy's got to stop talking. We've got to shut this guy up. And I can just sort of picture the scene in a lamplit room with a bunch of guys sitting around and eating hummus, thinking about what do we do about this guy telling the truth about us. We must make him stop talking.

A mother and her 14-year-old daughter complained to Marks & Spencer after a trans employee offered assistance in a lingerie section, prompting an apology from the retailer.

Captain Tom’s daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore, has faced backlash for rebranding as a resilience coach after being scrutinized for financial gains linked to her late father's charity.

"...the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was considering producing a new reality show in which 12 immigrants would compete to obtain U.S. citizenship..."

Some Catholics are not happy about the image of you looking like the Pope Trump: You mean they can't take a joke? You mean the fake news.

"I recently had a kid steal from my 18 month old sons diaper bag at a park. I called the kid out for what he was."