Social media satirist releases video take-down of Meghan Markle’s interview with Oprah Winfrey

TALK OF THE TOWN: Social media satirist Meggie Foster poses in a pair of earrings bearing the Saudi flag as she repeats lyrics from The Little Mermaid in a take-down of Meghan Markle’s interview with Oprah By Charlotte Griffiths for The Mail on Sunday Published: 00:43 BST, 11 April 2021 | Updated: 00:43 BST, 11 … Read more

Budget Spring 2021: Keir Starmer is mocked on social media for ‘limp’ takedown of Rishi Sunak

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer was today accused of being ‘ineffective’ after mocking Rishi Sunak’s love of social media in his response to the Tory Chancellor’s radical Budget. The Chancellor announced that income tax thresholds are being frozen until 2026 and corporation tax is being hiked from 2023 as he revealed the Government’s ‘unimaginable’ £407billion … Read more

Georgia election official holds furious takedown of Donald Trump’s election fraud claims

The Washington Post published the full transcript of the call between Donald Trump and Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, which has led to calls for Trump to face a criminal probe, accused by two House Democrats of conspiracy to interfere in elections. On the call on Saturday January 2 were Trump, his chief of staff … Read more

Facebook users will be able to own their images and issue takedown notices

Facebook is giving users more control over images they create, including the ability to issue takedown notices on Facebook and Instagram. In an update on Monday, the social media firm unveiled Rights Manager, which allows creators and publishers to protect their work ‘at scale.’  Page administrators can submit an application for content they want protected by uploading … Read more

Oxford epidemiologist backs up South Dakota governor with take-down of flawed German Sturgis study

Jennifer Beam Dowd wrote in an article for Slate on Friday that the study by IZA Institute of Labor Economics was not to be trusted An Oxford epidemiologist has backed up South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem in her skepticism of the widely disputed Sturgis study that claimed 266,000 people were infected with COVID-19 from the single … Read more