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Summer Walker CLAPS BACK at Critics Asking Why She Has Charisma on Social Media But Not on Stage
Summer Walker has amassed a loyal audience with her hard-hitting brand of R&B.
Lyric-driven and largely anchored in the lovelorn, the tracks that have catapulted the star to seismic heights.
On the live circuit, Walker’s presence has been a subject of much debate.
Because it’s become somewhat trademark for her performance to skew so demure to the extent that some have branded them unsatisfactory.
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“A suitably epic story with cataclysmic stakes” – Critics give their verdicts on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is almost upon us, with less than 24 hours until the latest instalment of Link and Zelda’s adventure finally arrives. But, ahead of getting hands-on with the game, the wait to see what critics have to say about Tears of the Kingdom is finally over.
It comes as absolutely no surprise whatsoever that Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is sweeping critics off their feet so far. Breath of the Wild was in receipt of countless awards back in 2017, including The Game Awards’, Golden Joystick Awards, and GDC’s Game of the Year – which led many folk to declare ToTK as being 2023’s GOTY, long before we’d even caught a real glimpse of the game.
Our own James Billcliffe scored Tears of the Kingdom a 5/5 after having spent plenty of time with the game, but what are the verdicts of other critics? Let’s take a look.
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DOJ alleges China used a troll farm to target Chinese government critics in the US
In an 89-page complaint unsealed on Monday, the Justice Department alleges 34 current and former members of China’s 912 Special Project Working Group carried out a multi-year campaign to harass critics of Xi Jinping’s regime and discredit American policies. The task force, part of China’s domestic security agency, created thousands of fake social media profiles, including on Twitter and Facebook, to target Chinese dissidents in the US.
Judging from screenshots shared by the Justice Department, many of the profiles did not have more than a dozen accounts following them, but a common thread among them is that they tried to pass as authentic American voices. As The Wall Street Journal points out, one account claimed to be “Susan Miller,” a woman from New York. Another said they were “Julie Torres,” a native of Wisconsin. According to the Justice Department, China’s Ministry of Public Security tracked the performance of the agents involved in the operation and rewarded those who successfully ran multiple online personas without being detected by Twitter and Facebook.
In addition to targeting Chinese dissidents, the group, taking a page from Russia’s disinformation playbook, sought to discredit the US government by exploiting divisions among the American public. For instance, it spread disinformation about George Floyd, the Black Man whose murder by Minneapolis police in 2020 sparked Black Lives Matter protests across the country. The group also amplified Russian propaganda about the war in Ukraine.
“As alleged, the PRC government deploys its national police and the 912 Special Project Working Group not as an instrument to uphold the law and protect public safety, but rather as a troll farm that attacks persons in our country for exercising free speech in a manner that the PRC government finds disagreeable, and also spreads propaganda whose sole purpose is to sow divisions within the United States,” said US attorney Breon Peace, referring to the acronym for the People’s Republic of China.
According to the Justice Department, all 34 of the agents remain at large. This isn’t the first time the US has detailed an effort by China to target overseas dissidents. At the end of last year, US Attorney General Merrick Garland detailed a case involving a multi-year campaign by Chinese operatives to force a US resident to return to China.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/doj-alleges-china-used-a-troll-farm-to-target-chinese-government-critics-in-the-us-201403325.html?src=rss
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P!nk Slams Critics of Rihanna’s Super Bowl Show, Says She “Not Interested” In Ever Headlining Her Own
Although big names like former U.S. president Donald Trump, WWE legend Goldberg, and radio shock jock Howard Stern count themselves among those jeering Rihanna for her gravity-defying Super Bowl Halftime Show on Sunday (February 12), the Bajan diva earned her fair share of praise from celebrities like Chris Brown,
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Stephanie Mills CLAPS BACK at Critics of Her Beyonce, Diana Ross Comments: “I Said It! I’m Not Gonna Apologize for It”
Stephanie Mills is doubling down on her comparison between Beyonce and Diana Ross.
The R&B veteran made headlines this week when she went on record to say that “Diana is the epitome of class…Beyonce is more Hip-Hop”
While some received the singer’s remarks as ultimately her opinion, others swarmed her social media pages with the suggestion that she was being a “hater.”
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