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Following the controversy, these mustard-yellow broom-heads are the only legal broom-heads certified by the World Curling Federation for competitive play. "Broomgate" also known as brushgate was a technology doping controversy in the sport of curling during the 2015–16 season. It was caused by the result of new brush head technologies and ...
Gizmodo Media Group was an online media company and blog network formerly operated by Univision Communications (now TelevisaUnivision) in its Fusion Media Group division. The company was created from assets acquired from Gawker Media during its bankruptcy in 2016. [ 1 ]
In August 2007, Trekstor faced controversy over the naming of a product. A black MP3 player from the i.Beat series was announced in a press release as the "i.Beat blaxx," which phonetically sounded like "I beat blacks." Following criticism, including a negative post on Gizmodo, [23] the player was renamed the "Trekstor blaxx" the next day.
Gizmodo (/ ɡ ɪ z ˈ m oʊ d oʊ / giz-MOH-doh) is a design, technology, science, and science fiction website. It was originally launched as part of the Gawker Media network run by Nick Denton . Gizmodo also includes the sub-blogs io9 and Earther , which focus on pop-culture and environmentalism, respectively.
Incorporated in the Cayman Islands, [1] as of 2012, Gawker Media was the parent company for seven different weblogs and many subsites under them: Gawker.com, Deadspin, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Jalopnik, and Jezebel. All Gawker articles are licensed on a Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial license. [2]
Following the broomgate controversy, these mustard-yellow broom-heads are the only legal broom-heads certified by the World Curling Federation for competitive play. In 2014, new "directional fabric" brooms were introduced, which could influence the path of a curling stone better than the existing brooms.
Biddle experienced being a target of a similar online shaming incident in 2014 after tweeting "Bring Back Bullying", and "Ultimately #GamerGate is reaffirming what we've known to be true for decades: nerds should be constantly shamed and degraded into submission," [10] during the Gamergate controversy. He received what he called "a whirlpool of ...
In July 2018, Univision announced it was looking for a buyer for the entire Gizmodo Group. [39] In April 2019, Gizmodo and The Onion were sold to private-equity firm Great Hill Partners, which combined them into a new company named G/O Media. [40] [41] In July 2019, executive editor Laura M. Browning and managing editor Caitlin PenzeyMoog left ...