A number of Instagram influencers are getting blasted on social media for promoting a Saudi Arabian electronic dance music festival called MDL Beast. In exchange for receiving as much as six-figure compensation, the influencers promoted both the festiv…
Category archives: Social Issues
Tennessee Politician Wants To Replace KKK Statue With Dolly Parton Statue
Tennessee State Representative Jeremy Faison wants to replace a bust of the KKK founder. He’s calling for the statue to be removed and replaced with a Dolly Parton Statue. A bust of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest graces the halls of t…
Ariana Grande Approaches Voter Registration Record on Current Tour
Superstar Ariana Grande is doing a lot more than just performing and making a lot of money on her current tour: she is about to set a record for voter registrations. In a Twitter post, she announced that she was within 1,000 voter registrations from &#…
Plácido Domingo Receives 30 Minute Standing Ovation in Milan
While the career of operatic tenor Plácido Domingo largely became derailed in North America due to allegations of sexual impropriety, he reportedly recently received a 30-minute standing ovation after performing at the La Scala 50th Anniversary Concert…
Warner Music Group Is Planting 100,000 Trees In the Amazon In 2020
Warner Music Group has announced a partnership with One Tree Planted to re-plant the Amazon. The move is a holiday gift to its employees and part of an effort to be environmentally conscious. Warner Music Group will plant ten trees for each of its empl…
50 Cent Slams Oprah Winfrey for “Only Going After Black Men” in #MeToo Documentary
Rapper 50 Cent attacked media mogul Oprah Winfrey in an Instagram post after learning that she was producing a documentary on allegations that producer Drew Dixon made against Def Jam Recordings co-founder Russell Simmons. In a post that features a smi…
Mac Miller Foundation Donates $100,000 to Pittsburgh YMCA
According to a report from CBS in Pittsburgh, the Mac Miller Fund is donating $100,000 in support of teen music programs at a local YMCA. Miller, who was originally from Pittsburgh, tragically died of an overdose at the age of 26 in September of last y…
A$AP Rocky Successfully Performs in Sweden – Donates Proceeds To Help Refugees
Rapper A$AP Rocky triumphantly returned to Sweden, where he was jailed earlier this year, to perform a concert that in part benefited refugees. The rapper reportedly performed both atop and inside a long metal cage at Stockholm’s Ericsson Globe. …
TikTok Secretly Hid Content From Fat, Queer, and Disabled Users
TikTok has admitted it adopted a set of policies to suppress the content of ‘vulnerable’ creators. TikTok says the policy was to prevent cyberbullying but hints at censorship. Moderators for the app were asked to watch 15-second videos to d…
TikTok Faces Legal Action for Massive Child Privacy Violations
The parents of a pair of underage TikTok users are suing the company, claiming that the app has exposed the personal information of children under the age of 13. The class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of…