Abigail Avery

Facebook makes it easier for creators to report impersonators

After widespread complaints that Facebook has become an “AI slop hellscape,” Meta on Friday announced new tools to detect impersonation, as well as updated creator guidelines that better define what Facebook considers to be “original content.” Last year, the company announced a crackdown on spammy and unoriginal content -— things like repeatedly reusing someone else’s…

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‘I Love Boosters’ review: Keke Palmer goes wild in Boots Riley’s new sci-fi satire

No one is making movies like Boots Riley. The audacious American filmmaker who had critics raving about his mind-bending 2018 directorial debut Sorry to Bother You is back with I Love Boosters, an unreservedly anti-capitalist satire with a deluge of bonkers spectacle and fierce fashion.  While filmmakers out of February’s Berlin Film Festival aimed to…

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