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• Thu, 25 Apr 2024 08:45:41 +0000: Best podcasts of the week: The reality show that duped women into falling for a fake Prince Harry - Internet | The Guardian
  

  In this week’s newsletter: TV journalist Scott Bryan looks back at the making of I Wanna Marry “Harry” – and the dubious ethics behind the show. Plus: five of the best podcasts hosted by pop stars

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  When Shima Oliaee was a teenager, she flew to Mobile, Alabama, to compete for a lucrative scholarship. She didn’t win. More than 20 years later, she returns as a judge and goes behind the scenes of the tough two-week event, which sees one girl crowned Distinguished Young Woman of America and win a $40k education. It’s a harsh, competitive tale that Oliaee tells so well. Hannah Verdier

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• Tue, 23 Apr 2024 13:18:16 +0000: The dangerous fallout from Baby Reindeer: should Richard Gadd have been less honest about his abusers? - Internet | The Guardian
  

  The internet is rife with speculation about the real-life stalker and real-life abuser from the Netflix hit. Is this show about exploitation starting to seem uncomfortably careless – even exploitative?

  Baby Reindeer was only released a little over a week ago, and already it has become a sensation. Richard Gadd’s adaptation of his 2019 Edinburgh festival one-man show, which in turn was a dramatisation of the ordeals he had been through at the hands of a stalker and a powerful abuser respectively, has not only been the most watched Netflix show in the UK, but made the top 10 in 12 other countries.

  And quite right too, since it’s as gripping and queasy and uncomfortable a show as you’re ever likely to see. But unintended consequences can come with success. The narrative surrounding Baby Reindeer has moved away from the show this week and into the real world. Besides its lead, the show is essentially about two people: a middle-aged woman who spent years inundating Gadd with thousands of unwanted messages to the detriment of his wellbeing, and a successful older writer who subjected Gadd to a prolonged period of sexual abuse. And while Baby Reindeer attempted to gloss over the true identity of these figures, the internet has, unfortunately, been busy.

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• Tue, 23 Apr 2024 08:44:00 +0000: Elon Musk's battle over the Sydney church stabbing video is not about freedom of speech. It’s to titillate his followers | Belinda Barnet - Internet | The Guardian
  

  The X owner was always going to turn the video removal request into a glib culture war fought with 4chan-style memes and late-night missives

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  This battle was never about the removal of a single violent video for Elon Musk – it was always going to turn into a glib culture war fought with 4chan-style memes and late-night missives featuring Musk as the free speech antihero fighting Woke Governments of the World. At least, that is how he wishes to portray it to his more than 180 million followers.

  Musk on Tuesday responded to an interim court order from Australia’s eSafety Commission requesting that X hide graphic and distressing videos of the recent Sydney stabbing within 24 hours with a Wizard of Oz meme: it’s all shits and giggles over at X. In further posts, he took aim at the eSafety commissioner, claiming she wants “authority over all countries on Earth”, after labelling her a “Commissar” for requesting the removal of the video in the first place, which depicted an attack that the NSW police have since classified as a terrorist incident.

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• Tue, 23 Apr 2024 06:34:30 +0000: Australian prime minister labels Elon Musk ‘an arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law’ - Internet | The Guardian
  

  Anthony Albanese responds to X owner who criticised Australian authorities demanding videos of a Sydney church stabbing be removed

  Australia’s prime minister has labelled X’s owner, Elon Musk, an “arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law” as the rift deepens between Australia and the tech platform over the removal of videos of a violent stabbing in a Sydney church.

  On Monday evening in an urgent last-minute federal court hearing, the court ordered a two-day injunction against X to hide posts globally containing the footage of the alleged stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel on 15 April. The eSafety commissioner had previously directed X to remove the posts, but X had only blocked them from access in Australia pending a legal challenge.

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• Tue, 23 Apr 2024 00:47:25 +0000: Elon Musk – arrogant billionaire or free speech warrior? | Fiona Katauskas - Internet | The Guardian
  

  Either way it stinks

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