RT’s French subsidiary will cease broadcasting after its accounts were frozen by the French treasury, its director, Xenia Fedorova, announced on Saturday. Paris claimed that it froze the funds in line with EU sanctions, which targeted RT’s parent company. “After five years of harassment, the authorities in power have achieved …
Read More »Pentagon accounts for abandoned weapons
US forces left behind more than $7 billion in military equipment during their chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan last August, the Pentagon reportedly revealed in a long-awaited accounting of the abandoned gear. Washington gave Afghan government forces $18.6 billion worth of military equipment from 2005 to 2021, and $7.1 billion of …
Read More »Twitter deletes ‘pro-Moscow’ Indian accounts
A number of allegedly “pro-Russian” Twitter accounts in India have been suspended for apparent “coordinated inauthentic behavior” after posting messages supportive of Moscow’s military offensive in Ukraine, the New York Times has reported. Twitter suspended more than 100 users following research published by Marc Owen Jones at Qatar’s Hamad bin Khalifa …
Read More »Twitter purges thousands of ‘state-linked’ accounts
Thursday’s ban affects 3,465 accounts, the most so far under the social media company’s push to remove users that spread “state-backed information.” Twitter said that it “attributed” the accounts that were given the boot to “operations” running for the sake of governments in Mexico, China, Russia, Tanzania, Uganda, and Venezuela. …
Read More »Talibanned? Social media wrangles with accounts deemed ‘terrorist’ as Taliban returns to power in Afghanistan
Facebook, which claims it has blacklisted Taliban-linked groups under its “dangerous organizations policy” for “years” due to US Treasury Department sanctions, does not plan to alter its approach now, a spokesperson declared on Tuesday. Instead, Facebook will defer to the “authority of the international community.” This policy holds for its …
Read More »UK radio host says strip ‘racists’ of bank accounts, passports and ability to ‘have a life’ after Euro 2020 racism row
Graham ranted on his talk show on Tuesday morning, decrying the racist social media messages that were posted after England lost to Italy in Sunday’s Euro 2020 championship game. “There are people in our society who are worth less than the dirt in the road,” he said, adding that “these …
Read More »Twitter isn’t censoring accounts to keep users ‘safe’, it is using its power to spoon-feed the world establishment narratives
Last week, Simon Goddek, who has a PhD in biotechnology and researches system dynamics, tweeted a link to a scientific study titled, “Is a Mask That Covers the Mouth and Nose Free from Undesirable Side Effects in Everyday Use and Free of Potential Hazards?” Some time later, his account was …
Read More »‘System irregularity’ leaves Twitter users in the dark & support accounts down as outage continues
Twitter users first experienced problems logging in and loading tweets on Friday night. Amid tens of thousands of error reports, the company’s support team said they were “working on fixing a problem,” and that users would be “back on the timeline soon.” These problems continued into Saturday morning, and affected …
Read More »Facebook bans Myanmar military accounts with immediate effect over coup
The social media company said it was left with no choice but to ban the accounts following the “deadly violence” in the country after the coup, believing that it was too risky to allow the Myanmar military, known as the Tatmadaw, to remain on its platforms. Facebook will also remove …
Read More »In fresh censorship, Twitter bans ‘Russian’ accounts it says are ‘undermining confidence in NATO’ amid rising tensions with Moscow
On Tuesday, Russian media reported that the San Francisco-based microblogging platform had confirmed at least 100 of the bans were of accounts supposedly connected with Russia. According to a company spokesperson, “some of these accounts disseminated messages that were associated with the Russian government, while the rest of the network …
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