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A preprint study confirms a widely held understanding: thanks to unusually harsh US laws for hosting pirated content, reporting nonconsensual sexual imagery as copyright infringement gets results.

There’s white smoke from ESPN’s HQ in Bristol, CT, today, as Shams Charania broke the news of his own free agent signing, saying:

On Friday, the social media company once again asked Brazil to lift its ban on X, saying it had paid the roughly $5 million in fines it owed from its tiff with the nation’s Supreme Court.

The company claimed that it’s not liable for failing to fully answer a notice asking how it handles child abuse imagery because Twitter “ceased to exist” after the notice was sent, as ArsTechnica writes.

Focus grouping upcoming films is a pretty standard practice. But according to Variety, the rise of toxic online fandoms who treat review bombing and leading harassment campaigns like it’s their job has prompted many of Hollywood’s studios to start soliciting feedback from “superfans” about how to avoid potential backlash from trolls who “are just out for blood, regardless.”

He’s also removed about 78 percent of X’s value since he bought it. (You all know what I’m going to say.)