Skip to content
Search AI Powered

Latest Stories

Rightwing Social Site Parler Accidentally Sent Ivanka's Private Email To Hundreds Of Users

Rightwing Social Site Parler Accidentally Sent Ivanka's Private Email To Hundreds Of Users
Ron Jenkins/Getty Images; Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images

The social media platform forgot to BCC its verified users in its announcement of Ye's aquisition deal.

Right-wing social media platform Parler sent an email to over 200-300 of its verified users to announce rapper, designer and rumored 2024 presidential candidate Ye's acquisition deal without using the blind carbon copy (BCC) function.

BCC would have blocked email recipients from seeing the addresses of the other recipients on the email chain.


This slip-up meant Ivanka Trump's private email address was visible to hundreds of users.

Also exposed were the personal emails of many verified users and Parler investors including Donald Trump Jr.'s fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle, New York Republican Representative Elise Stefanik and right-wing pundit Candace Owens.

Owens' husband George Farmer is CEO of Parler's parent company, Parlement Technologies.

Parler did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Parler was launched as a conservative answer to Twitter amid right-wing extremist claims hate speech and threats ofviolence were protected by the 1st Amendment. Despite the manufactured outrage against community standards on mainstream social media platforms, Parler and other options marketed to White nationalists, White supremacists, Christian nationalists and conspiracy theorists who often found themselves suspended or banned from other platforms failed to take off.

The email error came shortly after Farmer praised Ye for "making a groundbreaking move into the free speech media space." Farmer's announcement came a week after Ye was locked out of his Twitter and Instagram accounts for making a number of anti-Black, misogynoir and antisemitic posts.

Last week, in direct response to the bans, news reports confirmed Ye reached an agreement in principle to acquire Parler for an undisclosed amount.

Financial terms of the deal have not yet been announced, but it is expected to be completed later this year.

But the news Parler exposed the emails of many of its verified users and investors prompted many to mock the company.



The Parler controversy is only the latest to involve Ye during a month of significantly bad press.

Ye received backlash after White Lives Matter shirts—including ones worn by Ye and Candace Owens—were unveiled during his YZY Paris Fashion Week show. As a result, Ye went on several misogynoir and antisemitic rants and was accused of anti-Blackness by community activists.

Instagram locked Ye out of his account after he posted an antisemitic conspiracy theory in screenshots of text messages with Sean "Diddy" Combs.

In response, Ye returned to Twitter after a long hiatus to accuse Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg of personally locking him out of his account after Instagram announced it locked him out for posts that violated its policies. Ye also tweeted he'd go "death con 3 ON JEWISH PEOPLE," prompting media attention and further accusations of antisemitism.

News outlets later reported Ye made several conspiratorial, racist and antisemitic statements during unaired segments of an interview he had with Fox News personality Tucker Carlson, including a claim Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger created the organization “with the KKK [Ku Klux Klan] to control the Jew population.”

More from Trending

Donald Trump
Roberto Smith/AFP via Getty Images

Trump Roasted For Immediately Backtracking On Tariffs For U.S. Automakers After Backlash

The backlash against President Donald Trump is coming hard and fast after he quickly announced a one-month exemption for the auto industry following criticisms of his decision to earlier announce tariffs for imports from Canada and Mexico.

Trump is now offering a one-month exemption on the steep new tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports for U.S. automakers, easing concerns that the freshly launched trade war could severely impact domestic manufacturing.

Keep ReadingShow less
Screenshot of Jasmine Crockett
@Acyn/X

Jasmine Crockett Hilariously Shades Trump With Trolling Question About 'Immigrant Crime' During Hearing

Democratic Representative Jasmine Crockett of Texas went viral after she shamed President Donald Trump with a question she posed to mayors about immigration during a House hearing that mocked him for his felony convictions—without naming him at all.

In May last year, Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes. The jury found him guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels to illegally influence the 2016 election.

Keep ReadingShow less
Ben Stiller; Barack Obama
Leon Bennett/WireImage; Getty Images/Getty Images for EIF & XQ

Ben Stiller Reveals Barack Obama Turned Down Offer To Make A Key Cameo In 'Severance'

Actor and Severance executive producer Ben Stiller revealed in an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that he once approached former President Barack Obama to narrate a pivotal video for the hit Apple TV+ show only for Obama to decline the offer in an email.

Stiller hoped to cast former President Barack Obama as the voice of the anthropomorphic Lumon office building in the “Lumon is Listening” propaganda video featured in the season 2 premiere. Though Obama declined the offer, he reportedly responded by email, expressing that he’s a “big fan” of the show.

Keep ReadingShow less
Screenshots of Jennifer Hudson and Common at a Knicks game
@BleacherReport/X

Common's Quick Reflexes Save Jennifer Hudson From Taking A Basketball To The Face

EGOT-winning singer/actor Jennifer Hudson narrowly missed being hit square in the face by a basketball while watching Tuesday's New York Knicks playoff game against the Golden State Warriors from courtside seats.

Fortunately, her beau sitting beside her, rapper Common, diverted the ball's trajectory away from Hudson's face in the nick of time, her glasses taking most of the hit after Knicks’ point guard Miles McBride lost control of the ball.

Keep ReadingShow less
Screenshot of Ben Stein as the teacher in "Ferris Beuller's Day Off"; Donald Trump
Paramount Pictures; Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

'Ferris Bueller' Clip Explaining Tariff Disaster In 1930 Goes Viral Amid Trump's Tariff War

People are nodding their heads after a clip from the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off in which Ben Stein's teacher character explains the disastrous results of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930 went viral after President Donald Trump's announced tariffs on goods imported from Canada and Mexico.

The scene features a high school economics teacher, played by Ben Stein, lecturing his uninterested students about the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act—a real-life 1930 bill signed by President Herbert Hoover that raised tariffs on imported goods. The law, often blamed for exacerbating the Great Depression, has drawn comparisons to Trump’s recent trade policies.

Keep ReadingShow less