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Mashable

American news website

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Dec 8, 2025
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Do OpenAI, Google Gemini, or Grok proactively report chat logs where there is admission to possessing CSAM?

OpenAI, Google (Gemini) and xAI’s Grok all say they detect CSAM and report confirmed instances to authorities or NCMEC; OpenAI reported 74,559 pieces to NCMEC in Jan–Jun 2025 and says it “report[s] ap...

Dec 13, 2025
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Which countries set the legal age of consent for pornographic content at 18 versus higher ages?

Most countries that regulate pornography set the minimum age for performers and for legal access at 18; several Western European states and many others have introduced or enforced age‑verification sys...

Dec 2, 2025
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How has Tucker Carlson's audience size and demographics changed across platforms since 2023?

Tucker Carlson’s audience shifted from a massive, TV-centered base—Fox’s Tucker Carlson Tonight averaged roughly 3–5+ million viewers in peak years—to a more fragmented mix after his 2023 exit: a larg...

Nov 16, 2025

What are notable instances of Donald Trump's insults toward opponents?

Donald Trump has repeatedly used short, mocking nicknames and blunt insults aimed at political rivals, journalists and public figures — notable examples include “Crooked Hillary,” “Lyin’ Ted,” “Little...

Jan 31, 2026

Was Melania ever in playboy magazine

There is no reliable evidence in the provided reporting that ever posed for ; the strongest documented connections are that she attended Playboy events and was photographed with Playboy figures, while...

Nov 22, 2025

How many subscribers did Disney+ lose in 2025 and when was the decline reported?

Disney+ lost about 700,000 subscribers in the first quarter of fiscal 2025 (the three months ending December 2024), a decline reported in Disney’s Q1 2025 earnings coverage in early February 2025 (rep...

Jan 15, 2026

In Twitters policy it states that it will only report posting and sharing CSAM to the NCMEC and not liking, bookmarking or replying. What is Twitter required to submit about a passive viewer?

Twitter/X publicly says it reports instances of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) — principally the content and accounts that post or share that material — to the National Center for Missing and Expl...

Jan 25, 2026

How does xAI detect and prevent deepfake misuse across Grok Imagine outputs?

says relies on a mix of content filters, advanced detection tools, upload monitoring and legal reporting to block the most damaging sexual deepfakes, including submitting suspected child sexual abuse ...

Nov 24, 2025

When did X roll out and then reverse the account origin labels feature?

X began visibly rolling out an “About this account” / country-of-origin label for profiles in a phased public rollout beginning around November 20–22, 2025, with many outlets flagging activity on Nove...

Dec 17, 2025

Which major retailers publicly opposed Donald Trump during his campaigns and presidency?

Major retailers publicly distanced themselves from Trump-related products early in his first term and afterward: Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Sears/Kmart, Wayfair and other merchants removed Trump-brande...

Nov 22, 2025

is trump trying to cancel sesame street

Available reporting shows President Trump and parts of the conservative policy apparatus have taken concrete steps that reduce public funding or federal support tied to PBS — actions that have serious...

Jan 27, 2026

What are the exact verbatim quotes from Donald Trump’s Howard Stern interviews about Ivanka and where can recordings be found?

Reporting assembled from multiple outlets reproduces a small number of explicit, on‑air lines said about his daughter during interviews, and archival copies of many Trump–Stern interviews were circula...

Dec 19, 2025

Is there a complete transcript of Donald Trump's 2006 Howard Stern interview?

There is a publicly available, complete written transcript of at least one of Donald Trump’s 2006 appearances on The Howard Stern Show: news and archive sites have published full transcripts of the Fe...

Nov 22, 2025

What percentage of adults have tried pegging and how has that changed over time?

Available reporting does not offer a single, authoritative national time series on “what percentage of adults have tried pegging,” but several pieces of coverage and aggregated statistics place lifeti...

Jan 25, 2026

Are there Wayback Machine snapshots of the NRA’s official X account between Jan 23–26, 2026?

There is no evidence in the provided reporting that holds snapshots of between January 23–26, 2026; the sources describe the Wayback Machine’s behavior and failures but do not show a Wayback capture f...

Jan 15, 2026

Which documents or pages in the released Epstein files have been demonstrated to contain recoverable redacted text, and who produced those analyses?

Investigations by journalists and independent technologists have demonstrated that multiple pages in the Justice Department’s released Epstein files contained redactions that could be reversed, most p...

Jan 30, 2026

Which parts of Cam Higby’s Signal screenshots have been independently verified by newsrooms or by court filings in the Minneapolis investigation?

’s Signal screenshots and videos were widely circulated on X and other platforms and prompted Director Kash Patel to say he had opened a federal investigation based on those posts, a fact reported by ...

Jan 22, 2026

How do fact-checkers verify or debunk viral claims that protests were staged or paid for?

Fact-checkers verify or debunk viral claims that protests were by combining open-source investigation, provenance tracing, expert consultation and pattern recognition to test whether material is authe...

Jan 2, 2026

What was the context of Donald Trump's comment about his penis size during the 2016 presidential campaign?

Donald Trump’s on-stage reference to his penis size occurred during a March 3, 2016 Republican primary debate in Detroit and was a direct, public retort to Marco Rubio’s earlier mocking of Trump’s han...

Nov 26, 2025

Why was pegging revolutionary and why do some people find it hot

Pegging became widely discussed after Dan Savage coined the term in 2001, and its visibility — search spikes, porn-data signals and mainstream media references — accelerated in the 2010s and early 202...