A sex trafficking survivor whose story was used by Sen. Katie Britt during her disastrous State of the Union rebuttal called the senator’s characterization of her story “unfair.”
On Thursday, Britt said in her State of the Union rebuttal that during a recent visit to the southern border, she spoke to a woman who was “sex trafficked by the cartels starting at age 12.” Britt blamed President Joe Biden for the woman’s plight. “President Biden’s border crisis is a disgrace. It’s despicable. And it’s almost entirely preventable,...
On Thursday, Britt said in her State of the Union rebuttal that during a recent visit to the southern border, she spoke to a woman who was “sex trafficked by the cartels starting at age 12.” Britt blamed President Joe Biden for the woman’s plight. “President Biden’s border crisis is a disgrace. It’s despicable. And it’s almost entirely preventable,...
- 3/11/2024
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
Republican Sen. Katie Britt, who delivered her dramatic rebuttal to the State of the Union in an angry whisper from her kitchen, refused to admit she told a story of a sex-trafficking survivor in her speech that misled the audience to believe it took place in the U.S. under the Biden administration. Even when questioned about it on Fox News, Britt refused to acknowledge she wrongly tried to link the story to President Joe Biden.
During Britt’s speech, she told a story of a woman she spoke with...
During Britt’s speech, she told a story of a woman she spoke with...
- 3/10/2024
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
A top newsletter at Substack is leaving the platform amid controversy over the company’s policies surrounding pro-Nazi content. Platformer founder Casey Newton made the announcement on Thursday, writing that the publication “can no longer stay in good conscience.”
The decision follows weeks of controversy over the issue. In December, Jonathan M. Katz published an article in The Atlantic titled “Substack Has a Nazi Problem” and reported that 16 newsletters contained “overt Nazi symbols, including the swastika and the sonnenrad, in their logos or in prominent graphics.” Katz’s reporting also...
The decision follows weeks of controversy over the issue. In December, Jonathan M. Katz published an article in The Atlantic titled “Substack Has a Nazi Problem” and reported that 16 newsletters contained “overt Nazi symbols, including the swastika and the sonnenrad, in their logos or in prominent graphics.” Katz’s reporting also...
- 1/12/2024
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
Substack said that it will remove some publications that support Nazis from its services after backlash over the company’s initial refusal to remove accounts that endorse Nazi ideology, Platformer reports.
The company was adamant that the decision was not a reversal of it previous comments, per Platformer, but a reconsideration of how its policies are interpreted. In a statement to the technology newsletter, Substack’s co-founders said that “when we become aware of other content that violates our guidelines, we will take appropriate action.” The statement continued: “We sincerely...
The company was adamant that the decision was not a reversal of it previous comments, per Platformer, but a reconsideration of how its policies are interpreted. In a statement to the technology newsletter, Substack’s co-founders said that “when we become aware of other content that violates our guidelines, we will take appropriate action.” The statement continued: “We sincerely...
- 1/9/2024
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
Award-winning journalist Jonathan M. Katz’s new book, Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire, is an explosive deep dive into the forgotten history of American military imperialism in the early twentieth century. At its center is one of the United States’s most fascinating yet little-known characters — Gen. Smedley Butler, a Marine who fought in nearly every U.S. overseas war in the early twentieth century. In this exclusive excerpt, Katz documents how Butler played a pivotal role in an equally little-known episode,...
- 1/1/2022
- by Jonathan M. Katz
- Rollingstone.com
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