<p>New Mexico officials accused Facebook and Instagram of creating a breeding ground for predators who target children for human trafficking — while enabling the distribution of child pornography — according to a lawsuit filed against Meta Platforms and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.</p>
<p>According to the 288-page civil <a href="https://www.nmag.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023-12-05-NM-v.-Meta-et-al.-COMPLAINT-REDACTED.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> filed Tuesday in a New Mexico state court, the social media giant allegedly exposed young users to sexual content, opened the door for adult strangers to contact them, and subjected children to the risk of abuse or exploitation.</p>
<p>“Meta’s business model of profit over child safety and business practices of misrepresenting the amount of dangerous material and conduct to which its platforms expose children violates New Mexico law,” the complaint says. “Meta should be held accountable for the harms it has inflicted on New Mexico’s children.”</p>
<p>Attorney General Raúl Torrez said his office conducted an “undercover investigation” into the social media platforms that found Facebook and Instagram have certain child exploitative content more than ten times the amount shared on Pornhub and OnlyFans.</p>
<p>“Our investigation into Meta’s social media platforms demonstrates that they are not safe spaces for children but rather prime locations for predators to trade child pornography and solicit minors for sex,” Torrez <a href="https://www.nmag.gov/attorney-general-raul-torrez-files-lawsuit-against-meta-platforms-and-mark-zuckerberg-to-protect-children-from-sexual-abuse-and-human-trafficking/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a news release.</p>
<p>Torrez, who specializes in prosecuting internet crimes against children, further accused Zuckerberg and Meta executives of failing to implement changes to prevent the sexual exploitation of children on their products while being aware of the severe harm it can cause to users struggling with addiction or other mental health issues.</p>
<p>“Despite repeated assurances to Congress and the public that they can be trusted to police themselves, it is clear that Meta’s executives continue to prioritize engagement and ad revenue over the safety of the most vulnerable members of our society,” Torrez said.</p>
<p>Meta responded to the allegations, stating that the platforms do take precautionary measures to “help root out predators.”</p>
<p>“Child exploitation is a horrific crime and online predators are determined criminals,” Meta told CNBC in a <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/06/facebook-content-enabled-child-sexual-abuse-new-mexico-lawsuit.html?taid=65709b7af1c780000124071c&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter%7Cmain" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>, adding the social media company uses “sophisticated technology, hires child safety experts, reports content to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and share information and tools with other companies and law enforcement, including state attorneys general.”</p>
<p>Meta reportedly said the company disabled more than half a million accounts for violating policies in connection to child sexual exploitation.</p>
<p>New Mexico officials seek civil penalties, $5,000 for each alleged violation of New Mexico’s Unfair Practices Act, and an order urging the company from “engaging in unfair, unconscionable, or deceptive practices.”</p>
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<p>State officials reportedly also want Meta to apply effective age verification tools to the platforms, improve systems that detect and remove child sexual abuse material, and address the issues that allegedly amplify the material.</p>
<p>The latest filing against the social media giant comes after the attorney generals of 33 U.S. states <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/33-states-sue-meta-alleging-social-media-platforms-fueled-youth-mental-health-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> a lawsuit against Meta and its Instagram social media platform in October, accusing the multinational technology conglomerate of contributing to the mental health crisis in American youth by making them addicted to its products and violated federal children’s online privacy and state consumer protection laws.</p>
<p>Eight other states and Washington, D.C., filed similar lawsuits.</p>
<p>Meta said in a statement to outlets that it shares “the attorneys general’s commitment to providing teens with safe, positive experiences online, and have already introduced over 30 tools to support teens and their families.”</p>
<p>“We’re disappointed that instead of working productively with companies across the industry to create clear, age-appropriate standards for the many apps teens use, the attorneys general have chosen this path,” the company added.</p>
<p>If the states succeed, Meta could be forced to pay massive fines and change how it advertises and designs its platforms to the public.</p>


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<p>Dozens of U.S. states filed a lawsuit against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/meta" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Meta</a> and its Instagram social media platform on Tuesday, accusing the multinational technology conglomerate of contributing to the mental health crisis in American youth by making them addicted to its products.</p>
<p>Attorneys general from 33 states, including California and New York, filed the complaint in the Northern District of California federal court, claiming Meta violated federal children&#8217;s online privacy and state consumer protection laws.</p>
<p>&#8220;Meta has harnessed powerful and unprecedented technologies to entice, engage, and ultimately ensnare youth and teens,&#8221; according to the <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24080215-meta-lawsuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">233-page complaint</a>. &#8220;Its motive is profit.&#8221;</p>
<p>The lawsuit alleges that Meta has misled the public about the &#8220;substantial dangers&#8221; of its social media platforms by concealing its practices to make its &#8220;most vulnerable&#8221; consumers — teenagers and children — into addictive and compulsive social media users.</p>
<p>The states cited research that shows children&#8217;s use of Meta platforms is associated with &#8220;depression, anxiety, insomnia, interference with education and daily life, and many other negative outcomes.&#8221;</p>
<p>U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-school-district-sues-social-media-companies-over-growing-mental-health-crisis-among-students" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued</a> an advisory in May, citing a link between spending time on social media and the nation&#8217;s mental health crisis among the youth.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m issuing this advisory because we&#8217;re in the middle of a youth mental health crisis, and I&#8217;m concerned that social media is contributing to the harms that kids are experiencing,&#8221; Murthy told The Hill.</p>
<p>According to a 2019 study, adolescents between the ages of 12 and 15 who spent over three hours on social media per day had double the risk of developing symptoms of depression and anxiety, and the blame should not be placed entirely on parents who attempt to manage a healthy dose of social media for their children.</p>
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<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an unreasonable expectation because prior generations never had to experience and manage the rapidly evolving technology that fundamentally changed how kids thought about themselves, how they thought about their friendships, and how they saw the world,&#8221; said Murthy.</p>
<p>Meta said in a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/instagram-facebook-children-teens-harms-lawsuit-attorney-general-1805492a38f7cee111cbb865cc786c28" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> to outlets that it shares &#8220;the attorneys general&#8217;s commitment to providing teens with safe, positive experiences online, and have already introduced over 30 tools to support teens and their families.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re disappointed that instead of working productively with companies across the industry to create clear, age-appropriate standards for the many apps teens use, the attorneys general have chosen this path,&#8221; the company added.</p>
<p>Eight other attorneys general and the District of Columbia <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/24/states-sue-meta-addictive-features-kids-00123217" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> are filing separate lawsuits against Meta for allegedly violating state consumer protection laws, bringing the total number of states to 42.</p>
<p>If the states succeed, Meta could be forced to pay massive fines and change how it advertises and designs its platforms to the public.</p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The same celebrities and entertainers who didn’t hesitate to post black squares in solidarity with Black Lives Matter or add the Ukrainian flag emoji to their social media profiles after Russia invaded are being noticeably silent following the terrorist attacks in Israel.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A handful of famous people have spoken out about the atrocities committed by Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic terrorist organization. But they’ve been facing backlash from some of their followers and in one case, even backtracked on calling out the evil acts for what they are.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As of Tuesday, more than 900 Israelis have been killed and more than 2,600 injured from the attacks. The terrorists also kidnapped an unknown number of Israelis, many of them women and children, and are currently holding them hostage in the Gaza Strip. Videos shared by the terrorists showed them celebrating as they desecrated the bodies of both Israeli soldiers and civilians.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite the clear distinction between good and evil in this situation, the Hollywood set has been eerily silent about the attack, which has been </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shapiro-the-worst-day-for-jews-since-the-holocaust" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">described</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> as “the worst day for Jews since the Holocaust.”  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A few celebrities, however, have gone public with their support for Israel.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Actress and comedian Amy Schumer shared a photo of a family of five who were all killed by Hamas terrorists. She notably had comments turned off.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Family erased. There is no other side,” she wrote in the Instagram caption. “Hamas is a terrorist organization. Stop sitting at home wondering how to be diplomatic. They want to murder all Jews.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The post continued, “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. —Martin Niemöller”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill kept it simple, sharing a photo of Israel’s flag flying next to the American flag. “America stands with Israel,” he wrote in the post. Many followers made jokes and chastised him in the comments.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Madonna also </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyI29uYO0bh/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">posted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> about the attacks, writing in part, “What is happening in Israel is devastating. Watching all of these families and especially children being herded, assaulted and murdered in the streets is heartbreaking.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At another point, she wrote, “My heart goes out to Israel. To Families and Homes that have been destroyed. To children who are lost. To innocent Victims who have been killed… This tragic attack will only cause more suffering for everyone. Let us all pray. For Israel. For Peace. For The World.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her Instagram comments were also flooded with negative messages urging her to consider “the other side.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Academy Award- winning actress Natalie Portman, who was born in Israel, shared her support for her home country on Instagram. “My heart is shattered for the people of Israel,” she </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CyJKbL5rMZh/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. “Children, women, and the elderly have been murdered and abducted from their own homes. I am in horror at these barbaric acts and my heart is pounding with love and prayer for the families of all affected.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Israeli actress Gal Gadot had a similar message. She </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CyHF5n1t322/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, “I stand with Israel you should too. The world cannot sit on the fence when these horrific acts of terror are happening!”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Andy Cohen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Debra Messing, and Sarah Silverman also posted their condemnation of the attacks.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Social media influencer and reality star Kylie Jenner briefly went public with her support for Israel, but deleted her Instagram story after getting backlash from followers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After news of the attack went public, Jenner shared a post from the account @StandWithUs to her 400 million followers. It featured a photo of an Israeli flag and said, “Now and always we stand with the people of Israel!”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Even after deleting the post, Jenner kept getting </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kylie-jenner-posts-pro-israel-message-quickly-deletes-when-fans-attack-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">slammed in comments</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on previous posts. Some fans shared pro-Palestine messages while others berated the influencer for backing down when pushed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It’s actually way worse that Kylie Jenner just deleted the Israel post,” one person wrote. “It shows a lack of knowledge and care, she just posted it to be talked about.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Though Kylie backtracked, Kris Jenner, Khloé Kardashian, and Kourtney Kardashian all posted a statement on their Instagram stories condemning the attacks. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Hamas is a terrorist organization that attacked civilians by land, air, and sea. The images of kidnapped Israelis are shocking and devastating,” the statement said in part. “Given the thousands of years of persecution of Jews, please know that your Jewish friends — even if they are not in Israel — are hurting and are fearful when things like this happen and non-Jews are silent.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Frozen” actor Josh Gad </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/actor-josh-gad-said-he-was-shamed-attacked-for-publicly-supporting-israel-this-isnt-a-war-its-a-massacre" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">marveled</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> at the people coming after him for condemning terror attacks. The 42-year-old actor, who was raised Jewish, wrote on the social media platform Threads about his experience.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Yesterday, I and the world watched as a Terrorist organization massacred 600 innocent humans and took children and families hostage. I posted a message of heartbreak and shock. I, who have always been critical of the Israeli Government and its pattern of occupation and their attacks on innocent Gazans was personally attacked, shamed, unfollowed and threatened,” Gad said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Instead of compassion &amp; humanity, people are treating this as if it’s a FOOTBALL match with two teams when the points scored are dead human bodies/ Waving flags around as if they are team jerseys. Have we lost our f**king minds? Somewhere in a basement right now, tied up and terrified are little CHILDREN who have never done anything to hurt a Palestinian. Somewhere on the streets of Gaza are innocent people who are being shelled, because terrorists decided it was best to destroy any opportunity for peace.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There are no winners here,” the actor concluded. “We are all losers. Most importantly, every Israeli and Palestinian is now on the losing end. I am truly at a loss. I guess I’m the naive one.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While most celebrities are remaining silent, there are a few coming out on the other side with messages of support for Hamas. One of the most blatant of these is adult entertainer Mia Khalifa, who openly praised the terrorists.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“If you can look at the situation in Palestine and not be on the side of Palestinians, then you are on the wrong side of apartheid, and history will show that in Time,” Khalifa wrote on X on Saturday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In another post, the OnlyFans content creator referred to a photo of Hamas terrorists as a “Renaissance painting.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She wrote at another point, “Can someone please tell the freedom fighters in Palestine to flip their phones and film horizontal.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The media company Playboy publicly cut ties with Khalifa due to the nature of these posts. “Mia has made disgusting and reprehensible comments celebrating Hamas’ attacks on Israel and the murder of innocent men, women and children,” the company wrote in an email to subscribers which was sent out Monday, per </span><a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/10/playboy-fires-mia-khalifa-after-porn-star-expressed-support-for-hamas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The New York Post</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“At Playboy, we encourage free expression and constructive political debate, but we have a zero-tolerance policy for hate speech,” it said.</span></p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Israeli parents are reportedly being warned to remove TikTok and Instagram apps from their children’s mobile phones as Hamas intends to release videos of Israelis taken hostage begging for their lives.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The following message is being sent to Israeli parents from their children’s schools:</p>
<p>Dear Parents, <br />It has been brought to our attention that videos of hostages begging for their lives will soon be released. <br />Please remove the <a href="https://twitter.com/tiktok?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TikTok</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/instagram?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@instagram</a> apps from your children&#39;s…</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">On Sunday, Israel Minister for Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer told CNN that Americans were among the hostages taken by Hamas. “I think it’s scores of hostages,” Dermer <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/10/08/sotu-dermer-full.cnn">said</a>. “I can tell you there’s also American hostages as part of that number as well. &#8230; These were women, they’re children, they’re elderly; they’re Holocaust survivors. This is sick. It’s a savage attack.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">At least 150 Israelis were taken hostage, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/09/world/middleeast/israel-hostages-hamas-explained.html#:~:text=Abducted%20Israelis%3A%20An%20estimated%20150,that%20could%20help%20govern%20Gaza." target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, adding that an Israeli military spokesman said on Tuesday that families of at least 50 Israelis had been informed members of their families had been taken hostage.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Yoni Asher, who saw video of his wife and two young daughters taken by Hamas, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/09/israeli-hostages-relatives-plead-for-help">said</a>, “My two little girls, they’re only babies. They’re not even five years old and three years old.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Abu Obeida, a Hamas spokesman, claimed the terrorist group had hidden “dozens of hostages” in “safe places and the tunnels of the resistance.”</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said of talk of hostages, “This file will be not be opened until the end of the battle.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The utter barbarity of Hamas was already evident in videos the terrorist group had released even before news broke on Tuesday that Hamas terrorists had slaughtered at least 40 babies and decapitated some of them.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Israeli military forces reportedly discovered at least 40 babies that were brutally murdered by Palestinian terrorists in a kibbutz in southern Israel after they drove the terrorists out of the area.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Israeli-based i24 News correspondent Nicole Zedeck, reporting from Kfar Aza, said it was “hard to even explain exactly the mass casualties that happened right here.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Zedeck said she saw “baby cribs thrown to the side” and “strollers left behind” after upwards of 70 terrorists stormed the community on Saturday, slaughtering entire families and taking numerous hostages. In a kibbutz, babies are typically all housed together in one nursery.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/palestinian-terrorists-slaughter-40-israeli-babies-including-through-decapitation-report">Palestinian Terrorists Slaughter 40 Israeli Babies, Including Through Decapitation: Report</a></strong></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Ryan Saavedra contributed to this article.</em></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reality star </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kylie-jenner"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kylie Jenner</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> deleted a pro-</span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/israel"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Israel</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> post she shared with her 400 million followers after the terrorist attack by </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hamas"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hamas</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> over the weekend. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After news of the attack went public, Jenner shared a post from the account @StandWithUs to her </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/instagram"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> stories. It featured a photo of an Israeli flag and said, &#8220;Now and always we stand with the people of Israel!&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite Jenner quickly deleting the Instagram story, followers kept posting negative comments on older photos on her account. Many shared Palestinian flag emojis and mocked the social media influencer for having an opinion at all. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Someone ask Kylie Jenner to point to Israel on the map,&#8221; one person </span><a href="https://x.com/jadinho97/status/1710787872758849675?s=20"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on X.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;It&#8217;s actually way worse that Kylie Jenner just deleted the Israel post,&#8221; another person </span><a href="https://x.com/carriebradwh0re/status/1710931674446303695?s=20"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. &#8220;It shows a lack of knowledge and care, she just posted it to be talked about.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Don’t get involved in politics and say that u support i**ael. P@lestine has been suffering for ages,” another person wrote on Jenner’s most recent post.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Are u even human if u are with zionists,” another person mocked.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Others mentioned how it must be awkward for Jenner to show her support for Israel even though she’s friends with model Bella Hadid, who is openly pro-Palestine.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Kylie Jenner supporting Israel when her friend Bella Hadid is Palestinian is crazy,&#8221; one comment said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Do these celebrities listen to each other when they talk?&#8221; another person wrote. &#8220;Like when Bella Hadid talks about Palestine and being Palestinian does Kylie Jenner know what that means?&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">People around the world are condemning the horrific attack, which targeted civilians including women, children, and the elderly. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu officially declared war on Sunday after the Hamas attack.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Citizens of Israel, we are at war — not in an operation, not in rounds — at war,&#8221; Netanyahu said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">More than 700 Israelis have been confirmed dead, and at least 2,500 have been injured following the attacks orchestrated by the Palestinian Islamic terrorist organization, as The Daily Wire previously </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israeli-death-toll-skyrockets-following-iran-backed-terror-attacks"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. That number is expected to rise as the fighting continues and as more information becomes available.</span></p>


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<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/britney-spears-takes-swipe-at-paparazzi-in-new-collab-with-rapper" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Britney Spears</a> said people need to &#8220;lighten up about the knives&#8221; after she posted a video of her dancing around while holding two large butcher knives, which sparked concern from some fans about her mental stability.</p>
<p>In a video on Tuesday on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CxrOBGTpPS8/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a>, the 41-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/britney-spears-shares-cryptic-posts-following-news-of-split-from-husband" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pop star</a> wrote that people should &#8220;Lighten up about the knives&#8221; because she was just &#8220;copying Shakira.&#8221;</p>
<p>During <a href="https://celebrity.nine.com.au/latest/mtv-vmas-2023-shakira-performance-dancing-with-knives-video-vanguard-award/5078d2b1-01dd-4b36-ab9b-d739d7f9c621" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shakira&#8217;s</a> recent appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards, the singer performed a belly dancing routine while wielding two large knives.</p>
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<p>In the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cxo9Zqcr_IS/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">original post</a> that made headlines, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-of-britney-spears-dancing-with-butcher-knives-sparks-concern-among-fans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spears</a> wrote that she &#8220;started playing in the kitchen with knives today !!! Don’t worry they are NOT real knives !!! Halloween is soon !!!&#8221;</p>
<p>In a later post, fans noticed she had a bandage on her arm and was no longer dancing with the knives.</p>
<p>Initially, the &#8220;Womanizer&#8221; hitmaker had allowed comments on the first post, but later turned them off, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-of-britney-spears-dancing-with-butcher-knives-sparks-concern-among-fans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Some of them included concerns about not only the superstar singer, but about Spears&#8217; pets, who could be seen in the background.</p>
<p>&#8220;Those poor dogs just ran scared they need to be rescued and she needs HELP,&#8221; one commenter said.</p>
<p>Another added, &#8220;I&#8217;m now concerned about her having dogs let alone any animals after this video.&#8221;</p>
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<p>One follower wrote, &#8220;Look at this. The debate is over. Britney Spears is insane and can&#8217;t take care of herself. At this point we even have to ask if she could be a danger to others. For a year she&#8217;s been dancing incessantly in the exact same spot, and now she&#8217;s even waving knives around.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Britney Spears Pulled out the Knives for this latest video…. She&#8217;s Absolutely MENTALLY UNSTABLE,&#8221; another added. &#8220;I guess all the Free Britney Idiots won&#8217;t be satisfied until she Stabs herself or some Unlucky person near by [sic]….&#8221;</p>
<p>One user on X wrote that the knives were &#8220;100 percent real&#8221; because an audible &#8220;clang&#8221; could be heard, <a href="https://pagesix.com/2023/09/27/britney-spears-lighten-up-about-the-knives-im-copying-shakira/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Page Six</a> noted.</p>
<p>However, some fans were quick to defend the &#8220;Toxic&#8221; hitmaker. &#8220;Shakira did this in front of millions yet not one person said s**t,&#8221; one person wrote. &#8220;This isn&#8217;t a big deal, it&#8217;s literally fake knives.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Look at her form in this video!&#8221; another added. &#8220;She&#8217;s not going to hurt anyone.&#8221;</p>
<p>In November 2021, a judge terminated Spears&#8217; nearly 14-year conservatorship, which was controlled by her father Jamie Spears.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-of-britney-spears-dancing-with-butcher-knives-sparks-concern-among-fans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Video Of Britney Spears Dancing With Butcher Knives Sparks Concern Among Fans</a></strong></p>


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<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/britney-spears"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Britney Spears</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> fans are very concerned about a recent video she posted of herself dancing while wielding large kitchen knives.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 41-year-old </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities"><span style="font-weight: 400;">pop star</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> wrote in the </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/instagram"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> caption that the knives were not real, but viewers pointed out that the look and sound of the blades led them to believe that they were not props. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I started playing in the kitchen with knives today!!!&#8221; Spears captioned the post initially. After receiving a lot of backlash, the celeb revised her message and added, “Don’t worry they are NOT real knives!!! Halloween is soon!!!”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many were especially concerned about her multiple pet dogs, who ran away as Spears clanged the knives together while dancing around in a skimpy outfit.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Those poor dogs just ran scared they need to be rescued and she needs HELP,&#8221; one Instagram comment said, while another added, &#8220;I&#8217;m now concerned about her having dogs let alone any animals after this video.&#8221;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eventually, Spears deactivated comments on the post, but social media users headed to Twitter to share their thoughts. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Look at this. The debate is over. Britney Spears is insane and can’t take care of herself. At this point we even have to ask if she could be a danger to others. For a year she’s been dancing incessantly in the exact same spot, and now she’s even waving knives around,” one person </span><a href="https://twitter.com/SigurdSverd2001/status/1706673330441314433"><span style="font-weight: 400;">shared</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Britney Spears Pulled out the Knives for this latest video…. She’s Absolutely MENTALLY UNSTABLE. I guess all the Free Britney Idiots won’t be satisfied until she Stabs herself or some Unlucky person near by…,” another person agreed, referencing all the fans who rallied to have the pop star released from her conservatorship.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">TMZ previously </span><a href="https://www.tmz.com/2023/09/25/britney-spears-dance-knives-fascination-danger/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on Spears’ alleged “fascination” with knives. The outlet reported that she kept them &#8220;all around the house—including the bedroom,&#8221; with a source saying she &#8220;was paranoid someone was going to get her, and she needed the knives as protection.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In November 2021, a judge ruled to terminate the conservatorship Spears had been under since 2008, which was controlled by her father. Fans have been worried about the singer ever since then, as she frequently posts nude photos, rambling rants, and strange videos on social media. Some followers defend Spears, saying she’s finally free to do what she wants. </span></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pop star </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taylor-swift"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Taylor Swift</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> inspired a record-breaking number of fans to register to vote due to an </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/instagram"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> post.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vote.org told </span><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/taylor-swift-instagram-post-largest-voter-registration-day-since-2020-2023-9"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Insider</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that they had their largest National Voter Registration Day since 2020 on Tuesday and credit the success in part to Swift’s messaging. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Are you registered to </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">vote</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> yet? I&#8217;ve been so lucky to see so many of you guys at my US shows recently. I&#8217;ve heard you raise your voices, and I know how powerful they are. Make sure you&#8217;re ready to use them in our elections this year,&#8221; the singer said in an Instagram story. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 33-year-old singer included a link to Vote.org and noted that it takes less than two minutes to register. Swift currently has </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/taylorswift/?hl=en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">272 million followers</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on the platform.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vote.org noted that 35,252 people registered to vote and 157,041 eligible voters visited the site on Tuesday, representing a 22.5% jump in total registrations and a 115% increase among 18-year-olds compared to last year, Insider noted.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Andrea Hailey, CEO of Vote.org, said in a statement that these numbers were “record-breaking.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;During the day on Tuesday, we saw a 1,226% jump in participation the hour after Taylor Swift posted. Our site was averaging 13,000 users every 30 minutes — a number that Taylor Swift would be proud of,&#8221; Hailey told the outlet.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Swift was private about her political leanings until 2018 when she began openly supporting Democratic candidates after facing public pressure for staying silent. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“In the past I’ve been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now,” Swift famously wrote in a </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BopoXpYnCes/?hl=en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">social media post</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I always have and always will cast my vote based on which candidate will protect and fight for the human rights I believe we all deserve in this country. I believe in the fight for LGBTQ rights, and that any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender is WRONG. I believe that the systemic racism we still see in this country towards people of color is terrifying, sickening and prevalent. I cannot vote for someone who will not be willing to fight for dignity for ALL Americans, no matter their skin color, gender or who they love.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The singer went on to condemn then-Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), saying, “her voting record in Congress appalls and terrifies me.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The “Bad Blood” singer also endorsed Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 election.</span></p>


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<p>It&#8217;s unclear why Cole was censored, but the teen captioned a photo of her bio on the social media platform, wherein she identifies herself as a detranstioner.</p>
<p>Cole’s <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw-sbWtuEze/?img_index=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bio</a> notes that she’s “female” with two X chromosomes and a “former trans kid.” It also says that she was started on testosterone and puberty blockers at age 13, underwent a double mastectomy at 15, and finally detranstioned at 16.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>&#8220;The big tech overlords think I’m too cute to be on here,&#8221; Cole quipped, captioning messages from Instagram, which is owned by Meta.</p>
<p>&#8220;Your account cannot be shown to non-followers,&#8221; the social media platform said, according to the screenshots. &#8220;Your account activity may not follow our Recommendations Guidelines.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;What this means: Your account and content won’t appear in places like Explore, Search, Suggested Users, Reels, and Feed Recommendations,&#8221; the message continued.</p>
<p>Under Instagrams&#8217;s &#8220;guidelines on violence,&#8221; it reads as follows: &#8220;Our Recommendations Guidelines help promote content that fosters a safe community on Instagram. We try not to recommend content or accounts that show violence, such as people fighting. This includes: All accompanying text or imagery that encourage violence, include hashtags, terms, and bio.&#8221; <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cole is notably </span><a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-03-02/transgender-patients-chloe-cole-lawsuit-against-kaiser-lgbtq-rights#:~:text=Cole's%20legal%20complaint%2C%20filed%20Feb,distrust%20of%20the%20medical%20system.%E2%80%9D"><span style="font-weight: 400;">suing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kaiser Permanente </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">healthcare system for her transgender treatment. Recently testifying before Congress, the teenager pleaded with lawmakers to let her story by the &#8220;final warning.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Doctors are human, too, and sometimes they are wrong,&#8221; she <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5079802/chloe-cole-opening-statement-transitioning-detransitioning" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> before Congress. &#8220;My childhood was ruined </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">– along with thousands of de-transitioners that I know through our networks –</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> this needs to stop. You alone can stop it. Enough children have already been victimized by this barbaric pseudoscience; please let me be your final warning.&#8221;</span></p>
<p>Cole is certainly not alone in taking on medical professionals who perform irreversible transgender treatments on young people. A now-21-year-old Texas woman named <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-one-has-a-right-to-sterilize-a-child-two-detransitioners-sue-doctors-over-medical-interventions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Soren Aldaco</a> is suing her doctors in excess of $1 million over transgender medical interventions she received as a teenager.</p>
<p>Soren and her lawyer, Ron Miller, are not only searching for accountability and justice in Soren’s particular case, but want to send a message to medical insurers. “It’s about catching the attention of insurance companies, that they might want to stop insuring this kind of practice,” Miller told The Daily Wire. “And if they stop insuring this kind of practice, practitioners tend to not like to take that risk on themselves, so they stop doing it.”</p>
<p>In the lawsuit, Soren claims that medical professionals in Texas were guided by their ideology and irresponsibly facilitated treatments and surgeries that have led to Soren’s “permanent disfigurement” and have caused “profound psychological scarring.”</p>
<p>“What happened to me was preventable,” Soren told The Daily Wire. “I wanna hold my providers accountable for what they did, and I feel very strongly that ideology was prioritized over my long-term mental and physical wellbeing.”</p>
<p><b>Related: </b><strong><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-one-has-a-right-to-sterilize-a-child-two-detransitioners-sue-doctors-over-medical-interventions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘No One Has A Right To Sterilize A Child’: Two Detransitioners Sue Doctors Over Medical Interventions</a></strong></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Paris Jackson, the 25-year-old daughter of the late pop star </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michael-jackson" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Michael Jackson</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, berated fans for their treatment of her regarding her dad’s birthday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The model and </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">actress</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> posted a video to </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/instagram" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on August 29 explaining her thoughts on the situation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Today’s my dad’s birthday, and back when he was alive, he used to hate anybody acknowledging his birthday, wishing him a happy birthday, celebrating it, nothing like that,&#8221; she told her 4.2 million followers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Paris discussed how some of Michael’s fans had reprimanded her in the past for not posting about his birthday on social media. &#8220;It apparently means that you don’t love them, you don’t care about them,&#8221; Paris Jackson said sarcastically.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;There have been times where I don’t post anything for my dad’s birthday, and people lose their minds. They tell me to kill myself,&#8221; Paris continued. &#8220;And they’re basically measuring my love for my own father based off of what I post on Instagram.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The singer went on to play a clip from a show she played August 29 at the Amphitheater at Las Colonias Park in Colorado, where she opened for the band Incubus. Paris gave her late father a shoutout during the performance.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;He put 50 years of blood, sweat and tears and love and passion into doing what he did, so that I can stand up here onstage in front of you and scream into a microphone,&#8221; Paris told the assembled crowd. &#8220;I owe everything to him.&#8221;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Please don’t use a man you have never met as an excuse to abuse, manipulate, and harass his daughter (who you also have never met),&#8221; she wrote in the Instagram post caption.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meanwhile, Michael’s two other children, Prince Jackson, 26, and Blanket Jackson, 21, showed up in Las Vegas on August 29 at a birthday celebration for their father.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pop singer Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009, in Los Angeles of an accidental drug overdose. He was 50 at his time of death.</span></p>


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<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/martha-stewart">Martha Stewart</a> is in hot water over a social media post she shared referencing an “iceberg” in her cocktail.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earlier this week, the 82-year-old </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities"><span style="font-weight: 400;">television personality</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> posted photos of herself on a cruise, including a snapshot of herself holding a beverage while smiling and another of a huge chunk of ice sitting on a cart. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“End of the first zodiac cruise from @swanhelleniccruises into a very beautiful fjord on the east coast of greenland (sic). We actually captured a small iceberg for our cocktails tonight,” Stewart wrote in the image caption.</span></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/climate-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Climate change</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> alarmists expressed outrage in the comments, calling Stewart’s joke about icebergs “tone deaf,” among other things.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Martha the ice caps are melting don’t put them in your drink,&#8221; one account posted.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I generally love Martha and the excesses of her life because she&#8217;s about beautiful gardens, homes, and food, but wealthy white people drinking their iceberg cocktails while the planet is in flames is a bit tone deaf,&#8221; another social media user fumed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Martha I love ya. But weren’t you just talking about climate change with your wash out on your driveway in NY? Melting icebergs for a cocktail surely won’t help. I’m not even going to talk about the boat you’re on and how that can’t be good for climate change either,&#8221; a third echoed. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“So tone deaf. The rich do not care that people have been burned out of homes and the ocean is boiling. More yachts and private jets huh?” another said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There were also many followers mocking Stewart’s critics. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Use that ice in some whiskey!! Screw the naysayers and drink it what way you like!” one account posted.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Absolutely LOVE this! People who are freaking out need to get a GRIP!” another wrote in their reaction.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stewart also made headlines and drew mixed reviews in May when she became the </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/martha-stewart-becomes-oldest-model-in-si-swimsuit-history-with-latest-cover" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">oldest cover model</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to appear on the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Usually I’m motivated by pay. But this time I was motivated by showing people that a woman my age could still look good, feel good, be good,” Stewart said of agreeing to the photo shoot. “I thought that this is kind of historic and that I better look really good.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“That’s one of my mottos, when you’re through changing, you’re through,” she continued. “Change is very good. Evolution is very good, just trying new things.”</span></p>


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Climate Change Alarmists Melt Down Over Martha Stewart’s Joke About An ‘Iceberg’ For Her Cocktail

Climate Change Alarmists Melt Down Over Martha Stewart's Joke About An 'Iceberg' For Her Cocktail

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Singer </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Doja Cat</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> said she’s not sad about losing a quarter million followers on </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/instagram" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> following a huge backlash from some posts she shared.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 27-year-old </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">star</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, whose real name is Amala Dlamini, made waves last month after calling some of her fanbase “creepy” for reportedly being obsessed with her.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Seeing all these people unfollow me makes me feel like I’ve defeated a large beast that’s been holding me down for so long,” the recording artist </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dojacat/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">posted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in her Instagram stories.      </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It feels like I can reconnect with the people who really matter and love me for who I am and not for who I was. I feel free.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As of Thursday morning, Doja Cat is down to 25.1 million followers on the social media platform.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The controversy stems from a series of now-deleted tweets the singer posted earlier this month. Dlamini specifically took issue with fans who dubbed themselves “Kittenz” as a way of distinguishing themselves as being devoted to her.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“My fans don&#8217;t get to name themselves s***. If you call yourself a &#8216;kitten&#8217; or f***ing &#8216;kittenz&#8217; that means you need to get off your phone and get a job and help your parents with the house,” the Grammy award winner wrote.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dlamini went on to call out specific fans for their actions, including using her name for their accounts. “You making my government name your sn [screenname] is creepy as f***,” she posted about one follower.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When another follower asked what they should rename their account since Doja Cat didn’t like kitten, the singer replied, “Just delete the entire account and rethink everything it’s never too late.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> A mass exodus of followers followed her posts. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That wasn’t the first time Doja Cat lost mass followers on social media. Last year, fans rebelled when the “Say So” singer publicly blasted “Stranger Things” actor Noah Schnapp for posting screenshots of their private DMs, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/teen-actor-breaks-silence-after-doja-cat-dms-him-publicly-slams-him-as-socially-unaware-for-revealing-what-she-said" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“That’s like borderline snake s***, that’s like weasel s***,” she said in part of Schnapp’s actions. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Doja Cat later posted a message on Twitter seeming to address her critics that said, “Y’all are so cringe and lame and nobody wants to hang w u [with you] that’s why y’all be on here unironically writing replies to s*** that makes you mad.”</span></p>


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Singer Doja Cat Says She Feels ‘Free’ Following Loss Of 250K Instagram Followers: ‘Defeated A Large Beast’

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