The online influencer “Clavicular”, whose real name is Braden Peters, has been charged with rape, providing liquor to a person under the legal US drinking age, and drugging someone for sexual intercourse, court records show. The alleged offences occurred in May 2025, according to the charges filed in Orleans District Court in the state of
Brands have a proposition for influencers: What if you didn’t make those pesky #ad disclosures? The Utah-based wellness influencer Sharon Johnson, who describes herself in her Instagram bio as a “Reformed Tradwife,” said a supplement company recently asked her not to include an #ad disclosure in posts showing her receiving and opening the company’s product.
Ridley Scott recently told The Times of London that he sees himself not as a “filmmaker,” but as an “influencer.” “Every time, you are vulnerable,” Scott said when asked to identify a through line in his work. “Also, I never want to repeat myself and all my films have been on the money. I’ve been
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said 184.5kg of cocaine was found concealed in brown boxes at a courier facility in Lagos on Monday 3 August. The agency said it was being exported by an international trafficking network that for years had used Nigeria as a transit hub to move drugs to the UK,
Gubba does not see much separation between the life she shares online and the business she has built around it. On social media, she teaches followers about food storage and homesteading. Her audience can also buy a homesteading guide, take her food-storage course or shop at Arvoti, the skincare company she launched after creating a
A Mexican influencer, César Gastélum, has been shot dead while livestreaming on TikTok. Gastélum was filming with two friends outside a fast food restaurant in Tres Ríos, in the northern city of Culiacán, on Tuesday evening when when two men on a motorbike drove up to him and one shot him at close range. He
