Wednesday, February 18, 2026

CULTURE

New England Patriots Owner Built Command Center to Track Online Speech

(José Niño, Headline USA) New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft operates a surveillance hub inside the team's stadium that monitors over 500 million social media posts daily and sends intelligence reports on campus speech to university administrators. Chris Menahan of Information Liberation highlighted the operation, tweeting that Robert Kraft's Blue...

Social Media Company Says that Social Media Addiction if Fake

(Headline USA) Adam Mosseri, the head of Meta's Instagram, testified Wednesday during a landmark social media trial in Los Angeles that he disagrees with the idea that people can be clinically addicted to social media platforms. The question of addiction is a key pillar of the case, where plaintiffs seek...

San Francisco Sued Over Reparations Fund for Black Residents

(Chris Woodward, The Center Square) A lawsuit is challenging a San Francisco ordinance that establishes a reparations fund for Black residents. The ordinance, signed in December by San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, a Democrat, is aimed at addressing systematic harms. Even so, the Pacific Legal Foundation said this is wrong. “The...

Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s Campaign Responds to AI Video Scandal

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s Senate campaign on Monday did not deny using artificial intelligence to depict Texans in a recent digital ad.  Crockett, seeking the Democratic nomination for Senate, came under scrutiny after her campaign appeared to use AI-generated images instead of real people. Rather than addressing the...

Nike Under Federal Investigation for Anti-White Discrimination

(José Niño, Headline USA)  The nation's top workplace discrimination watchdog made Nike its biggest corporate target yet in the Trump administration's sweeping campaign against corporate diversity programs, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.  The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced last Wednesday that it opened an investigation into...

Boy Who Appeared in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Show is Not the 5-year-Old Detained by ICE in Minneapolis

(Headline USA) Social media users incorrectly identified a small boy who was part of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday as Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who, along with his father, was detained by immigration officials in Minnesota and held at an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

Trial Against Meta in New Mexico Focuses on Dangers of Child Sexual Exploitation on Social Media

(Headline USA)   A trial focused on the dangers of child sexual exploitation on social media and whether Meta misrepresented the safety of its platforms began Monday in New Mexico with opening statements. It's the first stand-alone trial from state prosecutors in a stream of lawsuits against major social media...

Washington Post Publisher Calls it Quits

(Headline USA) Washington Post publisher Will Lewis said Saturday that he’s stepping down, ending a troubled tenure three days after the newspaper said that it was laying off one-third of its staff. Lewis announced his departure in a two-paragraph email to the newspaper's staff, saying that after two years of transformation,...

NFL Players Don’t Know a Single Bad Bunny Song 

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A group of NFL players admitted they could not name a single song by Super Bowl halftime headliner Bad Bunny, the outspoken anti-Trump reggaeton artist from Puerto Rico.  Several players across the league expressed unfamiliarity with Bad Bunny’s music during interviews on Cayden’s Corner, undercutting the notion...

WATCH: Georgia County Fires Cop for Confronting Trans Person Who Used Ladies’ Room

(Johnny Edwards, The Center Square) ​​ The DeKalb County Police Department has fired a veteran officer for telling a transgender library patron to stay out of the women’s restroom, according to internal records obtained by The Center Square. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q2arH37GhA The records also show that the officer, who faced public accusations of...

Minnesota Mother Charged for Using Racial Slur Demands Speedy Trial

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Minnesota mother who was criminally charged for using a racial slur against a 5-year-old black child who took her property is now demanding a speedy trial. According to ABC 6 News in Rochester, the attorney for the woman, Shiloh Hendrix, is demanding a trial in...

How Much Is a Super Bowl Trophy Worth?

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The Seattle Seahawks will square off against the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl on Sunday. The winner will take home a big chunk of silver. And it is worth a heck of a lot more than the trophy the Philadelphia Eagles took...
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