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May 29 7 tweets 4 min read
Bad Boy for Life. A six-month investigation by Rolling Stone.

For decades, Sean “Diddy” Combs was hip-hop’s boisterous showman. Now, dozens of former friends, employees, and Bad Boy artists allege an abusive, violent figure behind the facade.

Read: rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…Image Over the past six months, Rolling Stone conducted dozens of interviews with Combs’ former friends, acquaintances, employees, and Bad Boy artists.

Out of 300-plus people contacted, more than 50 were willing to speak about their experiences.

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Mar 11 8 tweets 5 min read
🇲🇽 @_PesoPluma is the biggest new artist on the planet — and the #RollingStoneFutureofMusic cover star

The música mexicana star talks his upcoming album 'Éxodo,' the hectic (sometimes tumultuous) side of life in the spotlight & more.

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Image .@_PesoPluma helped curate the Future 25 list in the #RollingStoneFutureofMusic issue, sharing the rising stars inspiring him right now.

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Feb 14 5 tweets 4 min read
Kristen Stewart, Rolling Stone’s March cover star, just wants to “do the gayest thing you’ve ever seen in your life.”

After more than two decades in the spotlight, she knows who she is — and what she wants.

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Image As a queer woman in the public eye, Kristen Stewart has had occasion to think about identity, and what it all means.

“Jodie [Foster], me, boygenius. I’m in the middle,” she says of the queer-celebrity continuum.

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Jan 19 4 tweets 3 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Sam Altman’s cronies were deeply involved with Biden challenger Dean Phillips’ longshot campaign before forming a super PAC to support him, according to documents obtained by Rolling Stone.

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Image Dean Phillips’ “tech bro fest” campaign spawned a dark money group and a super PAC that is testing the limits of election law, experts say.

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Nov 27, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Trump, Who Destroyed Roe, Thinks He Can Run as an Abortion ‘Moderate’ in ’24

The man who essentially ended the federal right to abortion thinks that he can now run for president in 2024 as a “moderate” on the issue.

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Image In recent weeks, according to two people familiar with the matter, Donald Trump has privately remarked that several anti-abortion leaders now have no “leverage” to force him to do anything.

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Oct 19, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
EXCLUSIVE: America’s biggest charities bankrolled RFK Jr.’s anti-vaxx outfit.

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Image Tax records reveal that Fidelity Charitable and other charities have funneled millions through donor-advised fund programs to groups pushing vaccine skepticism and Covid-19 misinformation.

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Sep 7, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Sixteen current and former staffers say Jimmy Fallon’s erratic behavior spoiled their “dream” of working on The Tonight Show.

“You never knew which Jimmy we were going to get and when he was going to throw a hissy fit.”
trib.al/i0Rsalb Former employees describe The Tonight Show as a “pretty glum atmosphere,” with some alleging they were belittled and intimidated by their bosses, including Jimmy Fallon himself.

"Mentally, I was in the lowest place of my life," a former employee said

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Sep 5, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
NEW: Marjorie Taylor Greene and Kari Lake have been locked in what one source close to Donald Trump describes to Rolling Stone as a “death race” to become his 2024 vice presidential pick. trib.al/7i7gtMf In public, they present an image of calm unity. But, behind the scenes, they view one another with intense distrust & disdain, each seeing the other as direct competition for Trump’s political affections, four sources tell Rolling Stone. trib.al/dW6Y72L
May 10, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Commentary from Michael Fanone:

Full disclosure I “work” for CNN. That is, I receive a monthly check from them and have since abruptly quit my job as an MPD officer almost one year to the day after I was injured. trib.al/KgnU6z7 In the nearly two years that I have worked for this network, I have had countless conversations with its employees, producers, hosts, journalists, cameramen, etc. They all have stories about the “Trump” years. trib.al/hRa0fsl
May 4, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Former Tucker Carlson producer Abby Grossberg tells Rolling Stone how the host threatened to “destroy” Republicans who refused to do his bidding. trib.al/vlJuOgE The former producer on Tucker Carlson’s show is revealing just how far the Fox host went to bully top Republicans to come on his show and bend the knee to the MAGA agenda. rollingstone.com/politics/polit… Image
May 3, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
BREAKING: Pro-China internet trolls just got busted for doing something wild.

Social media giant Meta announced on Wednesday that it had booted 107 accounts in a China-linked network behind the phony news outlet dubbed the New Europe Observation. trib.al/p2LVvZ8 New Europe Observation sounds like a far-right extremely online news outlet. But it’s actually a front group for a Chinese propaganda network that’s borrowing tactics from Russia’s infamous 2016 troll farm. trib.al/vzdBc1I
May 2, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
NEW: Republicans are opening a new front in their effort to control women. trib.al/dzeWpUQ Steven Crowder, the right-wing podcaster who is getting a divorce, is part of a growing right-wing chorus calling for an end to modern divorce laws. trib.al/OEl8rxo
May 2, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
P.I. Jim Terry has become a true-crime star by discussing his missing persons cases on YouTube.

Several families who hired him claim his involvement – and his vlogs – only made their nightmares worse.
trib.al/eQwe3gk Clients of Jim Terry’s claim he alienated people working to solve their cases and charged for services he never completed.

“Taking advantage of a grieving mother when her child is missing? That’s a new low.”
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Apr 17, 2023 6 tweets 4 min read
Presenting the @RollingStone Creators Issue cover star — Miss Internet 🌐 Emma Chamberlain

From YouTube to podcasting, she’s made an art of winging it, being herself, and getting everyone to follow her lead.

Story/Photos: rollingstone.com/culture/cultur… Image At a time when influencers were #blessed and living their "best life," 16-year-old Emma Chamberlain showed up on YouTube zitty, frenetic, and irresistibly awkward.

Read how her on-camera personality and editing style redefined a genre of new media ⬇️
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Apr 16, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
Zealot or Savior? This U.S. Minister Is Training Rebels in a Civil War

Story: rollingstone.com/culture/cultur… Image For 25 years, ex-Special Forces officer Dave Eubank has been dodging bullets to bring humanitarian aid to Burma. Critics say he blurs the lines between combat and relief work while preaching the Gospels. trib.al/CvNy3SW
Apr 14, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
House Music’s Civil War: Inside the Battle Over Trax Records

Decades after the Chicago label changed dance music forever, former friends are locked in an intense feud over its past, present and future.

Story: rollingstone.com/music/music-fe… Image Trax Records was the first label, in 1984, to release house music.

Today, the house of Trax is in disarray–Vince Lawrence and 22 original Trax artists are locked in a legal battle over the rights to their music with the company’s current co-owner.

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Mar 3, 2023 8 tweets 4 min read
From the Archies to the Wonders to Daisy Jones & the Six — we RANKED the 50 best songs by made-up musicians ever.
trib.al/s8JkLy3 The 50 Best Songs by Made-Up Musicians — #46 "Let’s Go to the Mall" - Robin Sparkles

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Mar 2, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
Exclusive: Why Did Spotify Have an Official ‘Hitler Radio’ Playlist?
trib.al/FYVtXsx Until last week, any Spotify user could access a playlist titled "Musikkorps Der Leibstandarte—SS Adolf Hitler Radio"

The streaming service itself generated the track list, and multiple Rolling Stone staffers each received a different mix upon loading it. rollingstone.com/music/music-fe… Image
Mar 2, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
Exclusive: Why Did Spotify Have an Official ‘Hitler Radio’ Playlist?
trib.al/MHDCpAY Until last week, any Spotify user could access a playlist titled "Musikkorps Der Leibstandarte—SS Adolf Hitler Radio"

The streaming service itself generated the track list, and multiple Rolling Stone staffers each received a different mix upon loading it. rollingstone.com/music/music-fe… Image
Feb 1, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
After federal agents raided Meek’s home, prosecutors say they found a trove of pornographic images on the producer’s iPhone 8, iPhone 6, an external hard drive, and laptop depicting the abuse of children as young as a toddler. trib.al/HVYFPV5 When FBI agents examined Meek’s iPhone 8, they allegedly found messages he exchanged with another alleged pedophile with whom Meek traded child pornography. trib.al/bUZKETW
Feb 1, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
NEW: Democrats are counting on Goldman’s experience as a House investigator to counter Republicans’ own inquiries into the Biden administration. trib.al/IVNaBSD “What we’re going to see on the Oversight Committee are a bunch of crazy Qanon conspiracy theories that have no basis and truth, in fact, or in the case of COVID, in science.” trib.al/YHZiTgB