In the run up to the 2020 US presidential elections leaked emails from the laptop of Hunter Biden, the son of 'President' Joe Biden, showed his involvement in a series of potentially corrupt deals with foreign companies. They also indicated that he gaves the companies access to his father, who was then Vice President. Hunter was also pictured smoking crack and having sex with prostitutes. While the New York Post verified the accuracy of the leak and covered the story, the rest of the mainstream media refused to do so.

The Antiwork movement advocates for workers doing the bare minimum on their job, not taking additional tasks, not staying longer at the job, and doing personal chores during office hours. The movement has gained increased prominence in recent years.

Shareholder activism refers to investors attempting to use their voting rights as a shareholder to influence the corporation's behaviour

Rational egoism is the belief that 1) man acts according to self-interest if he is provided with enough knowledge and that 2) man ought to act according to their self-interest.

In 2021, Taylor Swift released a 10 minute extended version of her 2012 song All Too Well. The song covers her breakup following a short relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal. It focuses on how he was a bad - although not abusive - boyfriend, how she gaslit her own emotions, age differences in relationships, and importantly how the relationship affected her and continues to do so more than a decade later.

There has been a number of acid attacks against women due to their non-conformity to Islamic values (eg incorrectly wearing the Hijab). Amongst those conducting such attacks are the Basij morality police, a unit of the Revolutionary Guard. Iranian courts, that are governed by Sharia law, ruled that victims have final say in the punishment and they have the right to choose to blind their attacker by putting acid in their eye(s).