Alexi Mostrous

2 weeks ago | tortoisemedia.com | Alexi Mostrous |Xavier Greenwood

series Who Trolled Amber? 3h 23 mins • 7 Episodes What comes to mind when you think of Amber Heard? Liar? Survivor? Narcissist? Millions of us watched the celebrity trial of the century, Depp v Heard, in 2022. Amber Heard lost and Johnny Depp was vindicated. But what if Amber was actually the victim of an organised trolling campaign? What if the online hate against her was manufactured? Alexi Mostrous investigates what happened to Amber and who might have been responsible.

Jan 6, 2025 | tortoisemedia.com | Alexi Mostrous |Catherine Neilan

Even so, most of what he thinks he knows is wrong Since the start of the year, Elon Musk has tweeted or reposted tweets about British politics, grooming gangs and child sexual abuse 48 times. So what? Musk calls himself Chief Troll Officer for X, his social media platform, and in many of these tweets he’s trolled Keir Starmer personally. Yesterday Starmer responded.

Nov 21, 2024 | tortoisemedia.com | Alexi Mostrous

They normally cost about 16p. But on Wednesday, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur paid 40 million times that for a banana at a contemporary art auction in New York. Justin Sun, founder of the cryptocurrency platform Tron, outbid six others in a packed Sotheby’s auction room to buy the fruit for $6.2 million. Titled Comedian, the banana is stuck to a wall with duct tape. The artwork was first created by Maurizio Cattelan in 2019.

Nov 12, 2024 | tortoisemedia.com | Patricia Clarke |Alexi Mostrous

Musk buys power Your browser does not support the audio element. Our planet This episode of the Sensemaker was written and mixed by Patricia Clarke and Alexi Mostrous. With thanks to Gary Marshall, Basia Cummings and Matt Russell.

Nov 11, 2024 | tortoisemedia.com | Alexi Mostrous

Elon Musk hopes President Trump will supercharge his companies, his anti-woke ideology – and his dream of transporting humans to Mars. So what? More even than wealth or political power, Musk cares about getting to the red planet. While he supported Trump for a variety of reasons, deregulating space policy remains at or close to the top of his agenda. A star is born. In his victory speech last week, Trump praised his campaign staff, his prospective vice-president and his family.