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  • Meta Accused Of Human Trafficking and Union-Busting in Kenya | Time

    May 11, 2022

     Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms, and its largest outsourcing partner in Africa are facing new allegations of forced labor, human trafficking, and union busting in Kenya. Daniel Motaung, a former […]

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  • Why Elon Musk’s ambition to have Twitter “authenticate all real humans” will get people killed | Rest of World

    May 9, 2022

    In June 2021, Alita, a trans woman living in Saudi Arabia, saw a hashtag trending on Twitter that translated roughly to “a space for hatred of religion.” In a Twitter […]

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  • How Vietnamese ‘Putinistas’ are spreading disinformation about Ukrainians | The Conversation

    May 4, 2022

    In March 2022, a Vietnamese Facebook post accused Ukrainians of slandering late president Ho Chi Minh, the founding father of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Tifosi, a pro-state blogger and […]

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  • Disinformation for Dummies | The Wall Street Journal

    May 2, 2022

    We realize public schools don’t teach the classics any more, but has no one in the Biden Administration read George Orwell? Apparently not, because that’s the only explanation for its […]

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  • Fleeing Russian bombs while battling Facebook. A Meta problem Ukrainian journalists did not need. | Coda Story

    May 2, 2022

    Valerii Garmash, a 42-year-old Ukrainian coder and entrepreneur, remembers the devastation Russians left behind in Slovyansk, his hometown in eastern Ukraine: streets littered with burned cars, shattered glass and pieces […]

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  • Putin claims victory in Mariupol; Ukrainian fighters hold on | Reuters

    April 22, 2022

    KYIV, April 21 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed victory on Thursday in the biggest battle of the Ukraine war, declaring the port city of Mariupol “liberated,” although hundreds […]

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  • Pranks and propaganda: Russian laws against ‘fake news’ target Ukrainians and the opposition, not pro-Putin pranksters | The Conversation

    April 19, 2022

    When they launched their war on Ukraine in late February 2022, Russian authorities also unleashed an all-out assault on dissent at home. Within weeks, the Kremlin blocked access to nearly […]

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  • Barack Obama on Disinformation and Ukraine | The Atlantic

    April 10, 2022

    When they last sat down for an interview, in November 2020, Barack Obama told Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg that disinformation is “the single biggest threat to our democracy.” The threat […]

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  • Russia aims Ukraine disinformation at Spanish speakers | AP News

    April 6, 2022

    Washington (AP) — Though Russia is the country that invaded its neighbor Ukraine , the Kremlin’s version relentlessly warns social media users across Latin America that the U.S. is the […]

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  • Russian Misinformation Seeks to Confound, Not Convince | Scientific American

    March 29, 2022

    As war envelops Ukraine, Russian sources have strived to create a miasma of disinformation about the invasion. Among ample efforts to distort reality, the Russian Ministry of Defense asserted recently […]

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