CBS News Wednesday January 25, 2023
A photo in the news is back in the news: Disgraced former socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has claimed in a jailhouse interview that a decades-old photograph of Prince Andrew with Virginia Giuffre, who has accused him of sexual abuse, is “fake." Maxwell is imprisoned in Florida after her conviction and 20-year sentence for helping late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls, notes CBS News. Giuffre has claimed she was trafficked by the pair to, among others, Andrew, King Charles III's younger brother. Now 39, Giuffre sued Andrew in a U.S. court, claiming they had sex in London when she was 17.
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RUSSIAN ART&CULTURE Wednesday January 25, 2023
On May 2, 1925, May 1925, Russian artists Aleksandr Rodchenko recorded in a letter from Paris that he’d acquired a Debri Sept camera with a timer, a Zeiss lens, a tripod, and film stock. His purchase came at a time of heightened interest in the artistic possibilities of photography. Nearly a century later, there is still a degree of daring about Rodchenko’s photographs from this period – many of which are reproduced in the book Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of Stalin, notes Russian Arts & Culture.
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The New York Times Wednesday January 25, 2023
Vice, a “beleaguered avatar of new media,” is up for sale, reports The New York Times. The company, which has undergone several rounds of staff cuts in recent years, was valued at $5.7 billion in 2017 but will likely fetch much less in the current rocky media market. The brand is a prominent example of the bullish-to-bearish outlook for new media companies over the past decade, notes The Times. Meanwhile, adds The Times, Vox Media, which publishes New York magazine, The Verge and numerous other brands, has announced that it is cutting 7 percent of its workers.
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The Guardian Wednesday January 25, 2023
The oversight board for Meta, parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has strongly recommended the platforms overhaul their policies on partial nudity, notes The New York Times. The move comes after Instagram took down two posts depicting nonbinary and transgender people with bare chests—posts later restored—and a long-running “Free the Nipple” campaign pushed by content creators. The board recommended that Meta “define clear, objective, rights-respecting criteria” when it comes to moderating nudity, adds The Guardian.
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