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The embarrassing blunder in Amazon’s content policing was publicized by the Washington Post, which reported a discovery by SITE Intelligence Group, a watchdog monitoring terrorist propaganda online. One of their targets was Nida-e-Haqq, an outlet that disseminated messages of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in Urdu, a language spoken in …

‘In the Same Breath’, which is airing on HBO and HBO Max, chronicles the inept response and often deceptive practices of both the Chinese and US governments in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the power of propaganda to shape perception. The documentary features some harrowing, horrifying footage …

BBC Radio 1 is hosting a Drag Day on August 21, with four drag queens hosting their own shows. Be ready for glamour and excess from dawn until dusk. How it works on the radio remains to be seen – or rather heard – but the BBC can barely contain …

There has been no shortage of adoration poured on President Biden and members of his administration by the sympathetic US mainstream media. One of the most recent examples of the genre is its gushing ode to Psaki, published this week.  Unlike those who held the position during the Trump era, the article …

Covid has taught us all a few lessons, but one that’s stuck with many is that the constant exposure to the loss of life acts as emotional immunisation against death. It is taking a lot more to scare people these days. There used to be a time when the mere …

Wallowing in schadenfreude as it describes the purported IS (formerly ISIS) terrorist organization’s sympathizers who’ve supposedly found a home on the pro-Trump social network that recently sprung up following the ex-president’s exile from Twitter, Politico notes that Gettr’s “‘free speech’ policy” will “purportedly… allow users to fully express themselves without …

“There is a big nasty complex game being played behind the scenes to make the articles say what somebody wants them to say,” Sanger said this week, blasting the current community culture at Wikipedia. “There are all kinds of tricks that people can play to ‘win’ it.” Sanger, who launched …

This article contains plot points and minor spoilers for the movie Black Widow. After a two-year, Covid-induced drought, Marvel is finally back in theatres with the much-anticipated ‘Black Widow’. The movie was originally set to kick off Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe back in May last year, but …

Writing in Moscow daily Kommersant, Lavrov expressed his opinion that the so-called “rules-based world order” is a “neo-colonial” policy that imposes Western values on countries around the world, including when it comes to moral and religious ideas. “Apart from encroaching on international law, the ‘rules’ concept also manifests itself in …

Police in Wuerzburg, Bavaria shot and arrested a 24-year-old Somali man on Friday after he stabbed three people to death and injured six others, two seriously. The killer reportedly took a knife from a department store and immediately began attacking those around him, and according to witnesses he shouted “Allahu …