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Jul 27, 2023 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Insider who worked for Andrew Tate exposes his $8,000 “War Room” members’ club.
EliXAnpa claims that The War Room is a “cult” and that the group organise campaigns to silence critics while bragging about manipulating women to make webcam porn
His allegations include:
- Tate’s ‘PHD’ course turns women into ‘slaves’ to do webcam porn
- Bots target Tate critics
- The War Room can influence staff at social media companies
- Members have sent men to the homes of critics
- Tate megafans exploited for $250k or more
Jul 29, 2022 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
EXCL: New figures seen by TNM show the impact monkeypox is having on sexual health clinics.
They're responsible for monkeypox vaccination, testing, and info - and some say a lack of extra resources means they're struggling to offer regular services 🧵 1/
The headlines:
- 70% of sexual health clinics say their ability to offer face to face services has been impacted.
- Almost 40% say their ability to offer long acting reversible contraception (things like the coil or the injection) has been reduced 2/
Jul 28, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Google tells TNM they are tackling bias in search.
That’s when a search engine favours some results over others.
So what’s the problem - and the solution? 🤔
More in our exclusive interview with Vice President of Search @Google, Pandu Nayak...
A thread...🧵
1/ “15% of the searches we get every single day are one’s we’ve never seen before”
Here’s the challenge. The web has “hundreds of billions or trillions of pages”.
There’s no way humans can process and rank all the results fast enough.
So Google uses algorithms…
Jul 27, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
We visited ‘The Ecstasy Shop’ in the Netherlands 💊
Ok so there’s no actual MDMA inside…
But it imagines a world where the drug is regulated and what that might look like 🤔💭
Here’s what @clogrifff and Freddie found out 🧵 (1/7)
Machteld, who’s the director of Poppi drugs museum, gave us a tour around the 3 different interactive concepts (thank you!)
The first one is a smart shop
It raises the question of marketing: should it be allowed if MDMA was regulated? (2/7)
Jul 27, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Wondering why this Kendrick Lamar security guard could be crying?🧵👇
🍔 He can’t afford McDonald’s new cheeseburger prices