![]() ![]() “My nickname ‘Weird Al’ has been empowering for a lot of people,” he says. Reluctantly, Yankovic acknowledges there’s something, in fact, very real about Weird Al. On the last day of shooting, Radcliffe says, the whole cast and crew dressed up as Yankovic. At the “Weird” premiere in Toronto, Hawaiian shirts and curly wigs were out in force. The continued affection people have for Weird Al - a performer who represents roughly the diametric opposite of an image-conscious, out-of-reach pop star - seems to somehow still be expanding. At his concerts, he now sees fans of his from the 1980s with their kids - “and in some cases, their grandkids – which is a little scary.” He’s currently on “The Unfortunate Return of the Ridiculously Self-Indulgent Ill-Advised Vanity Tour” which concludes this fall at Carnegie Hall. Yankovic was in Toronto for only the evening with Colorado concerts the night before and the night after the premiere. “My most common note was ‘Please pump more,’” adds Radcliffe. “I can’t tell you what a joy it was to wake up in the morning and get video of Dan playing ‘My Bologna’ on the accordion,” Yankovic says, earnestly. Like, what if, Yankovic imagines, “Weird” had that much-memed moment in Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” where Tom Hanks’ Tom Parker hears Presley on the radio for the first time, dramatically swings around and exclaims “He’s white?!” - only it’s Weird Al he hears and instead responds, “He’s weird?!” ![]() He was sitting alongside Daniel Radcliffe, who enthusiastically plays Yankovic in the movie, at a Toronto bar stocked with on-theme cocktails like “Just Drink It.” It’s a funny enough idea that shortly before the raucous midnight Toronto International Film Festival premiere of “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” - a nutty, authorized biopic that takes that concept and has as much fun with it as possible - Yankovic was still riffing. ![]() But can you imagine if they did? That every step of Yankovic’s way - the first Hawaiian shirt, the epiphany of riffing on “My Sharona” as “My Bologna” - carried the same portentous sense of fate that rings through most music biopics? NOTA MUSICAL FACEBBOK LICENSE"Facebook should not be trusted and must be regulated, especially as they attempt to escape to the metaverse."Įditor's note: Facebook's parent company, Meta, pays NPR to license NPR content.TORONTO (AP) - When a young, bespectacled Al Yankovic picked up an accordion, few - especially Al, himself - would have predicted the long-running show-business career that would follow. "CCDH's strong research echoes the exposés by Frances Haugen and others: Facebook will say one thing, and yet do another," Khoo added. Notably, the release of the CCDH report comes just a week after Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen reportedly filed two additional complaints with the Securities and Exchange Commission alleging that Facebook misled investors about its efforts to combat misinformation about climate change and COVID-19. Lawmakers have introduced a slew of bills targeting misinformation and other aspects of social media, but it remains to be seen whether any of them will become law in the near future. Researchers used the social analytics tool NewsWhip to assess 184 articles containing false information about climate change, published by "The Toxic Ten" and posted on Facebook, where they collectively accumulated more than 1 million interactions.Ĭlimate Lawsuit alleging oil companies misled public about climate change moves forwardĪs NPR's Shannon Bond has reported, European regulators are moving relatively quickly to counter Big Tech compared with the pace of efforts on Capitol Hill. They include Breitbart, the Federalist Papers, Newsmax and Russian state media. The CCDH published a report in November finding that 10 publishers, labeled "The Toxic Ten," were responsible for up to 69% of all interactions with climate denial content on Facebook. During the time frame of this report, we hadn't completely rolled out our labeling program, which very likely impacted the results." Researchers examined posts with false information about climate change "When they rate this content as false, we add a warning label and reduce its distribution so fewer people see it. "We combat climate change misinformation by connecting people to reliable information in many languages from leading organizations through our Climate Science Center and working with a global network of independent fact checkers to review and rate content," Facebook spokesperson Kevin McAlister said in a statement provided to NPR. The COP26 summit These researchers are trying to stop misinformation from derailing climate progress ![]()
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