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2 months ago | 
screenshot-media.com | Abby Amoakuh |Marnie Duke |Charlie Sawyer |Mason Berlinka
‘Black Widow’ actor Scarlett Johansson has called on the US government to implement legislation into artificial intelligence, after a AI generated campaign against Kanye West of her and other celebrities went viral.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
screenshot-media.com | Abby Amoakuh |Fatou Ferraro Mboup |Alma Fabiani |Marnie Duke
The controversial rapper is in talks to launch his own pornography studio with the help of adult entertainment producer Mike Moz, who was previously married to Stormy Daniels. Kanye West, or as he’s now known, Ye, is reportedly in talks with pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels’s ex-husband Mike Moz to launch an adult entertainment division of his Yeezy brand.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
screenshot-media.com | Abby Amoakuh |Alma Fabiani |Marcia Veiga |Marnie Duke
In a move that even surprised people desensitised to Kanye West’s unconventional ideas, it seems like the rapper is planning to build his own city in the Middle East. It seems like Kanye West’s ambition knows no limits. First a presidential campaign, then his own church, and now, reports suggest, his own city. The rapper and designer is allegedly building a kingdom in the Middle East as part of his plans to create a Yecosystem of small communities.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
screenshot-media.com | Alma Fabiani |Fatou Ferraro Mboup |Marnie Duke |Abby Amoakuh
The heated row between Scott and McEnroe started when the former refused to rename his brand for a special edition of the latter’s Nike Mac Attack sneakers. American rapper Travis Scott and former tennis player John McEnroe have been arguing over a Nike collaboration that involves McEnroe’s iconic ‘Mac Attack’ sneakers. In a video that recently went viral, Scott can be seen vandalising McEnroe’s Hall of Fame plaque with his Cactus Jack logo.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
screenshot-media.com | Mason Berlinka |Marnie Duke |Alma Fabiani |Charlie Sawyer
By Mason BerlinkaFacebookWhatsAppTwitterFlipboardCopy LinkYe West, aka the disgraced rapper, who saw his empire crumble when he took to Twitter to unleash an antisemitic tirade onto the world, appeared on stage with Travis Scott in Rome last night on Monday 7 August 2023, at the Circus Maximus to a crowd of 60,000 people. It seems as though West is taking a step back into the spotlight, quite literally. On stage, Scott hyped up Ye’s appearance by announcing: “There is no Utopia without Kanye West.
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May 1, 2023 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Ruth Anderson |Francis Clarke |Marnie Duke
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="120168" img_size="full" add_caption="yes"][vc_column_text]As we all start to think about the forthcoming holidays and the end of the year it’s a good opportunity to reflect on what happened in 2022. For regular readers you’ll know I have at various points over the last year despaired at the sheer volume of news. Too many crises, too many heartbreaking stories, too many people and families destroyed by the actions of tyrants.
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May 1, 2023 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Ruth Anderson |Francis Clarke |Marnie Duke
Every day there seems to be a new public controversy, with clear free speech elements, which dominates our public discourse for a day or two. Each one typically leads to a discussion within Index, our professional staff debating not just whether we should make an intervention and what that could look like. But sometimes, more importantly, the team has the intellectual debate about where the lines on the right to freedom of speech fall.
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Mar 2, 2023 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Marnie Duke
Students should be encouraged to challenge ideas and question the world around them. Higher education is meant to teach us how to think freely, and for ourselves. Unsettling new data published by the Academic Freedom Index proves that this freedom is under threat. The report finds that academic freedom is in decline for over 50 percent of the world’s population and that many people on campuses worldwide have significantly less freedom today than they did ten years ago.
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Feb 8, 2023 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Marnie Duke |Ruth Anderson |Francis Clarke |Martin Bright
The murder of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman in Iran by the Gasht-e-Ershad ‘guidance patrols’ in September sparked protests worldwide. Celebrities cut off their hair and chanted ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ in support of the movement born out of her funeral. But ‘Mahsa Amini’ – as she is identified by the mainstream press – is a misnomer.
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Feb 1, 2023 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Marnie Duke
The long, winding path of The Curve art gallery at London’s Barbican Centre has been transformed into a devotional space. The cavernous room is dimly lit and echoes with the calming voices of female Iranian singers. Sprawling, Islamic, geometric patterns roll down the tall walls which are splintered with the light projected onto them by dazzling mirrored sculptures. Apart from the female voices, it feels like a mosque.
