A trans man went undercover on a TERF dating app (Canva) A trans man went ‘undercover’ on a gender-critical dating and community app and found that it has fewer than 100 members. Writing in the Washington Blade, Henry Carnell detailed how he was able to gain access to L’App, an app created by gender-critical campaigner
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Robyn Exton, founder of queer dating app HER. (Helena Price) The chief executive and founder of HER has expressed disappointment at a new lesbian dating app which purports to use facial recognition technology to exclude trans users. Robyn Exton, who launched dating and community app HER in 2015 – it boasts more than 13 million
Google’s AI model thinks every Mario character is gay. (NIntendo/Canva) Who needs fan-fiction when Google’s AI is making all the Nintendo characters LGBTQ+? The tech giant’s foray into AI, dubbed Gemini, has become the focus of ridicule after it produced “odd, inaccurate or unhelpful” answers to search queries. The AI language model, which was briefly
Grindr to be sued for allegedly sharing users’ HIV status (Getty) Dating app Grindr is being sued for allegedly sharing users’ personal information, including their HIV status and ethnicity. According to reports from the BBC, the claim was lodged at the High Court in London, alleging that Grindr had used “covert tracking technology”, and that
The iconic track marked the solar eclipse soundtrack. (Getty) Those in the US were able to catch a glimpse of the solar eclipse, but not without the celestial soundtrack to end all soundtracks: Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart”. The astronomical phenomenon, where the Moon moves between the Earth and the Sun, took place
Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. (Getty Images) Elon Musk has reinstated conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ account on X, formerly Twitter, despite his history of extremist rants. In August 2018, the far-right InfoWars host was banned from Facebook, YouTube, Apple and Spotify following years of extremist rants about transgender people, lesbians, drag queens, Muslims and immigrants.
LGBTQIA+ rights advocacy collective, Yes, We Exist, has called on Meta to address cyber bullying following the suicide of 16-year-old makeup artist Pranshu, who the group claim was “bullied for a week” on the platform ahead of his death. (Instagram/ glamitupwithpranshu) An Indian makeup artist has died by suspected suicide at just 16 after being
Elon Musk is suing Media Matters (Chesnot/Getty Images) Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, is suing Media Matters for America after the watchdog claimed adverts for major corporations appeared next to pro-Nazi material on the platform. Since his take over last year, Musk, a self-proclaimed free-speech advocate, has come under increasing fire for the way in
OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman has been fired after losing the confidence of the board. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Sam Altman, the chief executive and co-founder of OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, has been fired over Google Meet, despite the company receiving a $10 billion investment of Microsoft money. Altman, who is gay, was ousted from the company
A mother has opened up about her nine-year-old trans child being ‘doxxed’ by Kiwi Farms users. The controversial forum Kiwi Farms was reluctantly taken offline by host Cloudflare on Saturday (3 September) following a campaign led by trans streamer Clara Sorrenti, better known as Keffals. Kiwi Farms and its users were accused of involvement in
A vial of the monkeypox vaccine sits on a table during a media tour of the monkeypox clinic operations. (David Joles/Getty Images) The Australian government is to import 450,000 monkeypox vaccine doses to help tackle a rise in cases. Health minister Mark Butler told reporters on Thursday (4 August) the government had negotiated at least
Anti-LGBTQ+ ‘groomer’ slur banned under Reddit hate speech rules (Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Reddit has banned the anti-LGBTQ+ slur “groomer” under its hate speech policy, as well as any other reference to LGBTQ+ people as “paedophiles”. The vile slur, which conflates LGBTQ+ identities with paedophilia, has been increasing in use online, and has
Grindr. (LightRocket via Getty/ SOPA/ Rafael Henrique) Grindr has finally answered the age-old question asked by countless bottoms across the world: ‘Where in God’s name are all the tops?’ The world’s most popular queer dating app has revealed which countries have the most tops and bottoms as its annual Grindr Unwrapped report dropped Tuesday (28 December).