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- Saturday, June 3, 2023 - 4:30pm
A top Twitter executive responsible for safety and content moderation has left the company, her departure coming soon after owner Elon Musk publicly complained about the platform's handling of posts about transgender topics. The departure pointed to... -
- Saturday, June 3, 2023 - 9:45am
YouTube will stop removing content that falsely claims the 2020 election or other past U.S. presidential elections were marred by "widespread fraud, errors or glitches," the platform announced Friday. The change is a reversal for the Google-owned... Jay Roach Makes First Foray Into Episodic TV With "High Desert"
- Saturday, Jun. 3, 2023
Filmmaker Jay Roach usually has a moment of panic and doubt before production starts on a project.
It's something Sydney Pollack, who was a mentor of his, once assured him was normal. He'd...
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- Saturday, June 3, 2023 - 2:00am
The campaign that tackled vaping--Truth Initiative and Mojo Supermarket’s “Depression Stick + Breath of Stress Air,” with contributing agencies Gale, Allegiance Group, and Crux Research--has been awarded the Grand Effie at the 2023 Effie Awards U.S... -
- Friday, June 2, 2023 - 1:45pm
A federal judge overseeing the First Amendment lawsuit that Walt Disney Parks filed against Gov. Ron DeSantis and others is disqualifying himself, but not because of bias claims made by the Florida governor. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker... Sanctuary Signs Sundance Short Film Grand Jury Prize-Winning Director Kayla Abuda Galang
- Friday, Jun. 2, 2023
Sanctuary Content has signed Kayla Abuda Galang, a filmmaker and second-generation Filipino-American whose shorts have made their mark on the film festival circuit. This marks her first U.S....
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- Friday, June 2, 2023 - 10:30am
Meta is temporarily blocking some Canadian users from accessing news content on Facebook and Instagram as part of a temporary test that is expected to last through the end of June, the tech giant said Thursday. The block — which follows a similar... Insights Into Directing "Obi-Wan Kenobi," Collaborating With Tim Burton on "Wednesday"
- Thursday, Jun. 1, 2023
It’s been an eventful awards season thus far for Deborah Chow, director and executive producer on Obi-Wan Kenobi (Disney+). She’s currently in the Emmy conversation for her work on the...
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- Thursday, June 1, 2023 - 8:45pm
Actor Armie Hammer will not be charged after a long investigation of a woman's allegation that he sexually assaulted her in 2017, Los Angeles prosecutors said. Hammer said on Instagram after a long public silence that "I look forward to beginning... -
- Thursday, June 1, 2023 - 4:15pm
John Beasley, the veteran character actor who played a kindly school bus driver on the TV drama "Everwood" and appeared in dozens of films dating back to the 1980s, has died. He was 79. Beasley died Tuesday after a "brief and unexpected illness" at...
