The former threatened to pull ad spend if social network giants didn't clean up their act and prevent their platforms algorithmically accelerating hateful and divisive content.
The breakdown in talks between Russia and Ukraine, two of the largest republics in the former Soviet Union, threatens gas supplies in Western Europe because about a fifth of that flows through Ukrainian pipelines from Russia.
Just look at what happens any time a celebrity's former partner threatens to write a tell-all book or a disgruntled ex- commits a public act of revenge online: for every reviewer or commenter who sides with the disgruntled party, there are dozens more lining up to condemn them for their inability to "let go".
Leaders loyal to the previous former president threaten to undermine reconciliation efforts if they shut out.
Lord Black, a controlling stakeholder of Hollinger International and its former boss, threatened to block the sale.See articleJean-Marie Messier, a former chief executive of Vivendi Universal, was detained for two days by French police investigating share manipulation during his time as boss of the media giant.
Leading up to the inauguration, Mr Prabowo, a former son-in-law of Suharto, the late dictator, along with Aburizal Bakrie, a tycoon who heads Suharto's former party, threatened to boycott the ceremony.
She did not reveal who the former partner threatening to expose her is.
She said a former boyfriend threatened to make public her messages with Mr. Weiner.
In Odessa, Ms. Vernik's husband went into hiding after a powerful former client threatened him.
Alessandra Mussolini, a right-wing politician and a former actress, threatened the distributors of the film Francesca with legal action.
