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Racial and Gender Inequalities Influencer Report 2022: Notable Highlights 58.3% of influencers feel they have faced discrimination 47.73% believed they had suffered from gender discrimination 58.4% of respondents who faced discrimination had it occur on TikTok 80%+ of Macro-Influencers face discrimination 21.75% of influencers claim discrimination based on their physical features. This is highest for macro- and mega-influencers, e.g., fat-shaming and personal abuse in comments on their videos and posts There is a strong belief that social media platforms ask their moderators to suppress particular views and content, particularly those that diverge from what they consider the norm, and as a result, more than 70% of influencers feel that some of their posts failed to get the expected exposure...

Disney is joining the streaming game with new service Disney+, set to launch on November 12, 2019, and the studio is bringing a big lineup of original TV shows and movies to the table. From Star Wars shows like The Mandalorian and The Clone Wars to Marvel Cinematic Universe spinoffs such as Falcon and Winter Soldier, Disney is planning to spend $500 million on original Disney+ content in 2019 alone....

As anticipated, Disney this evening offered the closest look at yet at the upcoming Disney+ streaming service. The company previewed the standalone Disney+ application, while also offering details on bundling and more. First, Disney teased that users will “likely” be able to secure a discount if they subscribe to some combination of its three streaming services – including Disney+, ESPN+, and Hulu. The idea of a bundle with Hulu is particularly interesting....

The Disney parks are some of the most attended theme parks in the world, and one of the reasons that they remain that way is because the company constantly updates them with changes and new additions. With the parks being open 365 days a year, there is a constant change going on every time you enter a park. Whether it is a brand new theme park ride, a restaurant, or a new show and parade, Disney is always making tweaks to the parks to make sure they’re the best in the world....

Update: We attended the Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout grand opening! As a brand, The Walt Disney Company is currently stronger than ever. Their animated feature films like Finding Dory and Moana are big hits at the box office, almost 80 years after Walt Disney Pictures first began. And even their live-action remakes of Disney classics, like this year’s Beauty and the Beast are bringing new life to old favorites....

A fan dying of cancer got to see Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker early thanks to Disney. The final chapter in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, The Rise of Skywalker brings back new school heroes Rey, Poe, Finn, Rose and others while also reaching into the past to resurrect the most evil of all Star Wars villains, Emperor Palpatine. Though Disney chose to reveal Palpatine’s involvement in Rise of Skywalker with an early trailer tease, the exact nature of his role is not yet known....

Horror author Stephen King isn’t worried about Doctor Sleep’s low box office numbers. King is the author of the 1977 book The Shining, which he wrote a sequel to in 2013. Now five years later, the film adaptation of the best-selling book has hit theaters. Unfortunately for horror fans, Doctor Sleep failed to make a significant impact at the box office last weekend. Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is often considered one of the best horror films ever made, so when it was announced that Mike Flanagan was adapting Doctor Sleep, fans were more than ready to see the sequel to the 1980 film....

Destiny 2 legendary weapons will be more powerful soon - but there’s a pretty major catch. When the game released, legendaries were bland and lackluster. Every single drop of each weapon was the same. Eventually, random rolls were added back to legendaries. But now, Bungie says that Destiny 2 legendaries will become a little bit more exciting. Everyone goes crazy over exotic weapons, but players are limited to two: one weapon and one piece of armor....

Apple appears to have finally dropped Google Maps from iCloud.com, replacing it with its own in-house maps almost two years after removing Google Maps from iOS and most of its other products. Apple started slowly rolling out the feature to its iCloud beta site for select users earlier this year before pulling it, but it now seems to have replaced Google for all users of iCloud.com’s Find My iPhone feature (pictured above)....

Oppo Reno 3 Youth is the latest variant by Oppo in the Oppo Reno lineup. The device comes with the latest features with performance enhancements. Since the device got a new design update, many customers are expecting splashproof and waterproof design this time. This is because rival smartphones from Realme are already providing waterproof body design in their budget devices. And this is putting pressure on companies like Oppo to provide waterproof body design as well....

Another Marvel hero may be joining Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, as casting calls appear to be teasing Brother Voodoo. When Marvel Studios announced a sequel to Doctor Strange last year, it quickly became apparent how important it could be to the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film will co-star Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and open up the Marvel multiverse for Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) to explore....

In the nearly sixty years the series first premiered, the British science fiction adventure series Doctor Who has featured over a dozen actors in its leading role of The Doctor, a time traveling alien Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. Opinions range and vary widely as to who the best Doctor of all time has been, and opinions are usually based on some very key traits. Who is the funniest? Who is the wisest?...

Desperate Housewives took television by storm, quickly becoming a cultural phenomenon when it premiered back in 2004. Focusing on the lives of the titular suburban women, the dramedy ran on ABC for eight seasons and launched (or relaunched) the careers of Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, and Eva Longoria. Aside from the balancing of comedic and more dramatic elements, the series had a season-long Twin Peaksesque mystery to unravel as well....

It’s no secret that Apple News+ isn’t Apple’s first foray into digital magazines. In 2011, the company debuted Newsstand, which pre-dates this week’s announcements. A new comparison video, however, shows the striking similarities between the Newsstand announcement in 2011 and the Apple News+ announcement in 2019. Scott Forstall, who was an Apple senior vice president at the time, introduced Newsstand in 2011. Forstall pitched Newsstand as the future of digital news, with publishers maintaining their own apps that were offered through the Newsstand store....

Disney+ has a ton of movies joining the service over the next two years, many of which were surprisingly missing from the launch lineup. Disney’s new streaming platform already has a massive library, filled with movies and TV shows from the Mouse House’s various production companies - now including 20th Century Fox - but quite a few properties are still missing. The service is packed with its in-house content, ranging from 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to some of its more modern hits, like Zootopia and Moana from 2016....

Who’s starring in the Disney+ blizzard thriller Togo, and what else have they been in? Directed by cinematographer-turned-filmmaker Ericson Core, whose other credits include Invincible and the 2015 Point Break remake, the streaming service original movie tells the remarkably untold true story about the real canine hero behind the 1925 serum run. When Nome, Alaska experienced a seemingly unstoppable diphtheria outbreak, an intricate relay system was implemented to get antitoxins delivered across the treacherous, 600 mile round trip....

Though Disney has produced many films across its lifetime, the 2000s was a particularly successful decade for the company. Because we already looked at the best animated movies of this era, we thought it was time to look at the best live-action ones as well. To do this, we’ll be turning to IMDb for answers. The popular entertainment website has assigned a star rating to every Disney film released during the 2000s, which is formally defined as the years between 2000 and 2009....

Perks are an integral part of mastering the way that combat works in The Division 2. With benefits ranging from increased armor restocking to extra XP, there’s a whole bunch of things to consider if you want to really make your mark as an agent in the game. Luckily, our Division 2 perks guide will sort you out. There are more than 19 different types of perks to choose from. Because unlocking them is a matter of doing so one at a time (using the rare SHD Tech that you acquire) , or at least in a limited cluster, you will need to be intelligent about the choices that you’re making when it comes to which perks to prioritize over the others at different times in your game experience....

Doctor Who season 12 brought back the TARDIS crew in stunning fashion, and the teaser for episode 2 even includes a well-hidden Easter egg referencing a past version of the Master. Returning on New Year’s Day 2020, Doctor Who’s “Spyfall” brought back Yaz, Ryan and Graham, as well as Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor, on a spy-flavored adventure that ended on a game-changing twist. Spies all across Earth are being targeted by mysterious formless aliens that even the Doctor can’t identify, and one even nearly breaches the famously impenetrable TARDIS....

Developer Ben Guild posted alleged screenshots of Google’s upcoming Maps for iOS app. He claimed the photos show the alpha version of the app that is “speedy” and supports the iPhone 5. Further details in the report assert that Maps for iOS is vector-based and supports two-finger rotation. The photos do not show anything too mind-boggling. However, if real, they show Google is actively working on the app which many hope is coming....