QAnon hasn’t gone away. Getty Images Donald Trump lost his bid for reelection as president to Joe Biden more than a year ago, but that hasn’t stopped QAnon, a pro-Trump conspiracy theory.  People following the far-right fringe movement gathered in Dallas on Nov. 2 for group’s latest outlandish claim: that John F. Kennedy Jr., who died … Read more

Katie Silver / BBC: Alibaba’s annual Singles Day event sees slowest ever sales growth of 8.5% YoY since it was launched in 2009, but customer spending still hit a record $84.5B  —  Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s Singles Day is known for being the world’s biggest online shopping extravaganza. Source link

Contrast that with life on the feed, where each post is a performance informed by the user’s specific and invisible perspective of a platform they don’t totally understand. Chat’s blessing and curse has always been that it’s hard to monetize talking — it would feel, much more than an ad in a feed, like interruption. … Read more

Get a sneak peek of Hawkeye on Disney Plus now. Marvel What’s next for Marvel? Find out in a selection of documentaries exploring the past and future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, now streaming on Disney Plus. Disney is celebrating the second birthday of its streaming service on Friday with a slew of teasers, videos and announcements … Read more

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Streamers are seeking out unscripted TV, including documentaries and reality TV, as a cheaper and popular alternative to the prestige shows they first produced  —  Netflix has grown into the world’s biggest buyer of unscripted programming.  Its competitors are following suit. Source link

Shang-Chi hasn’t been available to stream, or even rent online, since its theatrical release in early September.  Marvel Marvel‘s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is one of the biggest box office hits of the pandemic, sitting atop the rankings as the highest-grossing movie in the US so far this year. Its box … Read more