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Reese Witherspoon Shares Important Warning After Scammers Pretending To Be Her Message Fans
These accounts also did something especially sinister: they tried to arrange meeting times with Witherspoon's followers. There's a possibility that these attempts were to prank people, waste their time, and foster engagement, but there's no telling what might have been waiting for these followers if they went to the meeting location.
Witherspoon warned in a TikTok video:
"I want to just tell you what I’ve been dealing with for the past 24 hours. There are multiple people on TikTok and Instagram impersonating me."
"And they go into people's DMs, and they try to build a relationship, they try to extract personal information, plan meet-up times."
"I want you to know this is not me. And it’s so upsetting that people would use my name to manipulate people, but I want you to know that I would never, ever manipulate you."
"I would never reach out to you for money, for private information, to create a meet-up time."
"So please look at these accounts that are doing this and make sure they're verified if somebody's talking to you."
"This is not just me. This is happening across the board. But it's really upsetting to me that this is happening on such a large scale."
"So please be careful out there, and please know I would never, never reach out to you to manipulate you or take anything from you. Okay?"
You can watch her video here:
A few fans joked about the promises the scammers had made to them while posing as Witherspoon.
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But most took Witherspoon's warning seriously and appreciated her informing them of the problem.
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Witherspoon is far from the first celebrity to be impersonated by scammers, and she surely won't be the last, but it's still frustrating how many people get hurt by these scams, whether they're excited fans or don't have the digital literacy to discern the fake accounts from the real ones.
Always make sure to do your research, and if a connection seems too good to be true, there's a great likelihood that it is.
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Jameela Jamil Explains Why She Isn't 'Brave' For Speaking Out On Social Issues—And Fans Are Nodding Hard
However, Jamil rejects the label "brave" for it. She also doesn’t think people of privilege, like her fellow celebrities, should stay quiet on social issues.
Speaking to Refinery29 on the Golden Week Nominees Night red carpet, Jamil said:
"Am I brave or are they cowards? I think they're being greedy and weird and disappointing."
"Look at the billions of eyeballs on all of us collectively. There should be no outliers of the industry who are the outspoken ones, like Mark Ruffalo, out there on their own with this amount of privilege."
On the label "brave," Jamil added:
"I feel like we weaponize the word brave to make it seem as though someone's on this pedestal. Using the word 'brave' is a way of separating yourself—being like, 'Oh, I could never do what you do.'"
"And 'You make it seem like it's so hard and so inaccessible.' And then we rely on individuals to do what would be so much easier to achieve as a collective."
She finished by saying:
"I hope it changes."
You can see her comments here:
People appreciated her honesty.
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On Reddit, people discussed the outsized hate Jamil often received online.
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Jamil hasn't let her haters silence her or derail her career.
Her latest project is the romantic comedy People We Meet on Vacation, streaming on Netflix.
Greenland Supporters Are Epically Trolling Trump With Their Latest Twist On His MAGA Slogan
The mock hats were designed by Jesper Rabe Tonnesen, a Copenhagen-based vintage clothing store owner. Initial batches failed to catch on last year until the Trump administration sharply escalated its rhetoric about Greenland.
Tonnesen’s original design played on a Danish phrase, reading “Nu det NUUK!” — a twist on “Nu det nok,” or “Now it’s enough,” swapping in the name of Greenland’s capital. Since the redesign, the hats have taken off, selling out in a single weekend as demand jumped from a trickle to a surge. Tonnesen said he has since ordered “several thousand” more.
He told reporters:
“When a delegation from America went up to Greenland, we started to realize this probably wasn’t a joke — it’s not reality TV, it’s actually reality. So I said, OK, what can I do? Can I communicate in a funny way with a good message and unite the Danes to show that Danish people support the people of Greenland?”
You can see the hats—which many wore while waving red-and-white Danish and Greenlandic flags—below.
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You can see footage of protests in the news report below.
People have rallied behind the protesters—and appreciate their take on the MAGA slogan.
Opinion polling indicates that roughly 85% of Greenland’s population opposes joining the U.S.
European governments have since lined up behind Denmark, arguing that Arctic security should be handled collectively through NATO. France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom have each sent small contingents of troops to Greenland as part of what officials have described as a reconnaissance mission.
The deployments were announced as Danish and Greenlandic officials met last week in Washington with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, just hours after Trump wrote on Truth Social that “anything less” than U.S. control of Greenland was “unacceptable.”
The talks produced little concrete progress. Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said the discussions were “frank but also constructive,” but acknowledged that a “fundamental disagreement” remains between the sides.
