Editor's note: In July, CNET News published a special report exploring how hate spreads over the web. The timing of the package -- "iHate: Intolerance takes over the internet" -- was uncanny. As we ...
Following the delisting of the Sad Frogs District NFT project from OpenSea, the Sad Frog’s team has filed a counter DMCA to the NFT marketplace. Matt Furie, the creator of the beloved, sometimes ...
Today in barely-scrutable crypto news for nerds: Matt Furie—the creator of the oft-Alt Right-appropriated character Pepe the Frog—was able to successfully force the removal of a collection of 7,000 ...
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has declared “Pepe the Frog,” a cartoon character used on social media to “suggest racist, anti-Semitic or other bigoted notions,” as a hate symbol. According to the ...
On Monday night, Newsweek's executive editor Margarita Noriega was accused of racism. Her crime? Sharing a popular meme featuring a cartoon frog known as Pepe. @Newsweek editor @margarita replies to ...
Internet meme Pepe the Frog has found himself in a database of hate symbols. The Anti-Defamation League says recent appropriations of the smirking green frog as Adolf Hitler, a Klansman and numerous ...
Last month, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) declared Internet cartoon meme Pepe the Frog a hate symbol. Now, it's hoping Pepe will leap off that list. According to a press release, Pepe creator Matt ...
(RNS) Little green frogs are supposed to turn into handsome princes, not ugly hate symbols. Yet that is what happened to Pepe the Frog, a humble though popular comic book character, when he was kissed ...
The iconic image of Pepe, a downtrodden frog who first appeared in artist Matt Furie’s web comic Boy’s Club, has become one of the internet’s favorite ways to represent failure, depression, and other ...
“Feels Good Man”: This Sundance award-winning documentary from artist Arthur Jones follows Pepe the Frog on his journey from lovable cartoon frog to Anti Defamation League-registered hate symbol.
Before he was co-opted by hate groups, dressed in Nazi regalia and turned into a hate symbol, Pepe was the Internet’s chillest frog, the embodiment of “feels good, man.” Now, his creator is is teaming ...