2020-05-27: Social Media Postees

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Twitter finally Fact-Checks Trump, but Still Lets him Get Away with Murder (Literally)
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2020-05-27
Twitter routinely bans accounts for breaking its rules, but has let Trump act with impunity…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/twitter-finally-fact-checks-trump-but-still-lets-him-get-away-with-murder-literally/

Launch Of Apartheid Off Campus
Kevin Zeese | popularresistance.org | 2020-05-27
Apartheid Off Campus was born officially just over a week ago and it could not have come at a better time, with the new and ever-mounting challenges the Palestinians have had to face. In this 7-day window, AOC acquired over 2000 followers across three social media platforms: Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. AOC has received far-reaching and overwhelming support from students and activists alike, enough to remind us that now is as perfect a time as any to launch an active, dynamic student-led movement for Palestine. | After an online-only (courtesy of the lockdown!) student campaign launch, hundreds of students a…
popularresistance.org/launch-of-apartheid-off-campus/

Ecuador Protests New Neoliberal Measures Amid Lockdown
Kevin Zeese | popularresistance.org | 2020-05-27
Above photo: Ecuador protests against neoliberal measures during pandemic from Twitter. Protesters state that Lenin Moreno's government has made decisions that only benefit big companies and private banks. Unions, students, teachers, workers, and social organizations took to the streets in Quito as others followed from home in several cities Monday with a pot-banging protest. In Quito, Cuenca, and Guayaquil the protesters …
popularresistance.org/ecuador-protests-new-neoliberal-measures-amid-lockdown/

Police in the US fire tear gas at protest against brutal Memorial Day murder
wsws.org | 2020-05-27
Video shared on social media shows that George Floyd was killed by a police officer who kneeled on his neck while he was subdued on the ground.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/27/poli-m27.html

Police in the US fire tear gas on protest against brutal Memorial Day murder
wsws.org | 2020-05-27
Video shared on social media shows that George Floyd was killed by a police officer who kneeled on his neck while he was subdued on the ground.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/27/poli-m27.html

Widespread outrage across the US, over the murder of George Lloyd by police
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-27
On May 26, hundreds of protesters were attacked by police in the city of Minneapolis during a protest against the murder of George Floyd, an African-American man, by a police officer on Monday May 25. | Protesters gathered at the intersection where Lloyd was murdered on Tuesday May 26 after the news of his death spread over social media. A memorial for Floyd was organized and people chanted against the police and held up signs condemning institutionalized racism in the US. | Protests were also held outside the Minneapolis Police Department's 3rd precinct office building, the circle to which the accused police off…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/27/widespread-outrage-across-the-us-over-the-murder-of-george-lloyd-by-police/

'I can't breathe!': Minneapolis erupts in protest after murder of George Floyd
Chauncey K. Robinson | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-27
Civil unrest and outrage have overtaken the city of Minneapolis as a community seeks retribution for the death of yet another Black person at the hands of police. Video footage went viral earlier this week showing four white officers using excessive force and an unauthorized restraint maneuver to arrest 46-year-old George Floyd. George lost his …
peoplesworld.org/article/i-cant-breathe-minneapolis-erupts-in-protest-after-murder-of-george-floyd/

International movement demands: 'Justice for Major Tillery!
Betsey Piette | workers.org | 2020-05-27
On May 17, word spread via social media that Major Tillery, a political prisoner at Pennsylvania's State Correctional Institution Chester, was sick with chills, a sore throat and a fever for several days. On hearing of Tillery's illness and knowing that COVID-19 was running rampant in U.S. prisons, the international . . . | Continue reading International movement demands: 'Justice for Major Tillery! at Workers.org…
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Exxon, Amazon and Facebook Should Heed Shareholders' Calls for Political Activity Disclosure, Removal of Political Misinformation
commondreams.org | 2020-05-27
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European Commission to propose ‚Ç¨750B EU recovery package
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-05-27
The European Commission plans to propose a Recovery Instrument of ‚Ç¨750 billion to combat the impact of the coronavirus crisis, Economy Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said on Twitter Wednesday. Of the ‚Ç¨750 billion, ‚Ç¨500 billion would be distributed in the form of grants, and ‚Ç¨250 billion in the form of loans, according to a person familiar with the …
truepublica.org.uk/newsbits/european-commission-to-propose-e750b-eu-recovery-package/

The Inefficient and Incredibly Lucrative Coronavirus Vaccine Race
Sam Pizzigati | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-27
Centuries ago, back in the Middle Ages, battles against plagues seldom went well. Medieval public health warriors had little scientific knowledge about their viral assailants. And what little knowledge they did gain, they couldn't easily share. Kingdoms had no vehicles for rapid and reliable communicating. We don't have that problem today as we do viral…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/27/the-inefficient-and-incredibly-lucrative-coronavirus-vaccine-race/

Racism and Bias at the Court of Arbitration for Sports
Rick Sterling | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-26
Sun Yang Over the past 5 years, the sports "anti doping movement" has been distorted into a political tool to attack Russia and now China. This article reveals the bias behind the decision to ban Chinese athlete Sun Yang for eight years. For example, the president of the panel tweeted against a "yellow faced Chinese …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/racism-and-bias-at-the-court-of-arbitration-for-sports/

Facebook Under Fire After Its Response to Coronavirus Misinformation Makes Clear Company Could Do More to Combat Political Lies
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-27
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Facebook Ignored Internal Warnings Its Algorithms Were Intensifying Divisiveness: Report
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-26
"Facebook knows what it's doing, intentionally continues to cause harm to increase engagement and profit, and will never fix these problems themselves." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/zucky.png …
commondreams.org/news/2020/05/26/facebook-ignored-internal-warnings-its-algorithms-were-intensifying-divisiveness?cd-origin=rss

Costa Rica becomes a first Central American country to legalize same-sex marriages
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-27
Costa Rica became the first Central American country to recognize same sex marriage yesterday, on May 26. | In August 2018 the Supreme Court had asked the parliament to amend country's Family Code which bans gay marriages by May 26, 2020 failing which same sex marriage will automatically be legal. The Costa Rician parliament did not vote to amend the law nor did it allow the request of some of its conservative members, including the President of the Legislative Assembly pastor Eduardo Cruickshank, that asked the court to delay it. | President Carlos Alvarado tweeted "Costa Rica officially recognizes equal marriag…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/27/costa-rica-becomes-a-first-central-american-country-to-legalize-same-sex-marriages/

From George Floyd to Chris Cooper: Ibram X. Kendi on "Racist Terror" Facing Black People in America
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-27
"I can't breathe"

An Economy That Cannot Allow Stocks to Decline Is Too Fragile to Survive
Charles Hugh Smith | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-26
Feast your eyes on the chart below of the Nasdaq 100 stock market Index, which is dominated by the six FAAMNG (rhymes with "famine") stocks: Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix and Google which now account for over 20% of the entire U.S. stock market's capitalization. | Notice that despite the global economy sliding into a debt-bust depression, the NDX is within kissing distance of new all-time highs. You're joking, right? Sales and profits won't slide as the depression steps on the neck of hundreds of millions of households? | As you've probably heard by now, sales don't matter, profits don't matter, cos…
anti-empire.com/an-economy-that-cannot-allow-stocks-to-decline-is-too-fragile-to-survive/

Trump Threatens to "Close" Twitter for Fact Checking His Tweets on Voting
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-27
President Donald Trump is threatening that his administration "will strongly regulate, or close" social media sites that attach disclaimers to inaccurate or misleading content, following an incident in which Twitter fact-checked his tweet about mail-in voting. | On Tuesday, a tweet from Trump that included an unsubstantiated claim about voter fraud and mail-in voting was examined by Twitter and later featured a disclaimer from the site at the bottom of it. | "There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In B…
truthout.org/articles/trump-threatens-to-close-twitter-for-fact-checking-his-tweets-on-voting/

George Floyd, Chris Cooper and the Racist Terror Faced by Black People in the US
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-27
"I can't breathe"

Lennie's lockdown tunes hit fundraising target after delighting online followers
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-27
An eight-year-old boy with cerebral palsy and hydrocephalus has hit his fundraising target after delighting his online followers with scores of piano tunes chosen by those who donate. | Lennie Street, from Morley, West Yorkshire, cannot stand or walk independently but loves music and decided to challenge himself during lockdown to play 100 songs picked by his supporters. | He has had thousands of views on his social media accounts as he tried and mastered everything from Beethoven to Justin Bieber and Stevie Wonder. | Lennie first set himself a fundraising target of £750 for his special school

Will conservatives finally 'infiltrate' Hollywood with new venture from 'Justified' star Nick Searcy?
rt.com | 2020-05-27
'Justified' actor and outspoken conservative Nick Searcy is challenging left-wing gatekeepers in Hollywood with a new studio venture intended to "run over" the system and speak straight to "heartland America." | Hollywood's aggressive left-wing bias is the industry's worst-kept secret. | Liberal stars consistently trash right-of-center thinkers and Trump supporters through social media, and agenda-driven content is pushed through the pipelines, regardless of the box office results. | Stars have even been caught promoting the idea of a professional blacklist against conservatives in the past

Come on! Dominic Cummings' name didn't trend on Twitter… because of anti-porn filters
rt.com | 2020-05-27
He may have remained relentlessly in the news for the past week, but Boris Johnson's embattled chief adviser Dominic Cummings still hasn't managed to trend on Twitter, despite being the subject of ample social media trolling. | That's because Twitter's anti-porn filters have prevented his full name in its correct form from appearing in the trends, according to the Guardian. | Cummings has been subjected to intense scrutiny since it emerged that the UK prime minister's top aide had made a 260-mile trip from London to Durham with his ill wife during the height of Britain's Covid-19 lockdown, when the government…
rt.com/uk/489925-dominic-cummings-not-trending-porn/

Trump threatens to SHUT DOWN social media after spat with Twitter over mail-in voting criticism
rt.com | 2020-05-27
The US president has threatened to heavily regulate, or even shut down, social media platforms that "silence conservative voices" after Twitter marked his posts with a fact-check notice implying they contained misinformation. | "Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservative voices," Donald Trump tweeted on Wednesday. "We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. We can't let a more sophisticated version of that happen again." | ….happen again. Just like we can't let large scale Mail-I…
rt.com/usa/489892-trump-threatens-ban-twitter/

'Obsessive partisanship': Pew Research blasted for misleading tweet casting Dem districts as doing better on Covid-19 deaths
rt.com | 2020-05-27
The Pew Research Center is being criticized on social media for appearing to spin a graphic depicting deaths from the coronavirus outbreak in favor of Democrats

'Intro to a good dystopian film': Amazon & media roasted online after TV stations aired segments scripted by company's PR team
rt.com | 2020-05-27
Commenters online found it "disturbing" and dubious that several local US news channels ran stories praising Amazon… that were written by the company's own staffers. | At least 11 local TV stations have run pro-Amazon news segments which closely follow scripts written and supplied by the retail giant's PR people, Courier reported. | A montage of the anchors reading out nearly identically-structured stories has been circling on social media. According to Courier, the news package was produced by Amazon spokesperson Todd Walker, and only one station

Trump Threatens to Regulate, Close Down Twitter Amid Spat Over Flagged Tweets
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-27
The president accused the social media giant of "completely stifling FREE speech" late Tuesday, warning that he would not allow this to continue after the microblogging platform put a "get the facts…" flag under his tweets about mail-in ballots.
sputniknews.com/us/202005271079432237-trump-threatens-to-regulate-close-down-twitter-amid-spat-over-flagged-tweets/

'Cardi B is All of Us on Quarantine' as Singer Shares Clip Showing Her Rounded-Up Belly
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-27
The co-author of the pandemic anthem "Coronavirus Remix" has never tried too hard to hide her true emotions about the ongoing health crisis and this time the singer went as far as to share with the audience her body's reaction to the continuing lockdown measures.
sputniknews.com/viral/202005271079432111–cardi-b-is-all-of-us-on-quarantine-as-singer-shares-clip-showing-her-rounded-up-belly/

Trump Surprises GOP With Threat to Pull RNC Convention Out of North Carolina
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-26
One of President Donald Trump's many targets on Memorial Day Weekend has been North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, who he says is moving too slowly on the state's reopening. Railing against Cooper on Twitter, Trump threatened to pull the 2020 Republican National Conventional out of Charlotte

Trump Ridicules Biden's Use of a Face Mask as US COVID Infections Near 2 Million
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-26
President Donald Trump shared a tweet that seemed to have ridiculed the way Joe Biden, his presumed Democratic Party opponent in this year's presidential race, looked while wearing a mask during a Memorial Day Ceremony. | Biden wore a black mask while laying a wreath at a military memorial in Delaware, his first public appearance since states across the country issued stay-at-home o…
truthout.org/articles/trump-ridicules-bidens-use-of-a-face-mask-as-us-covid-infections-near-2-million/

Cummings criticism sees Church of England bishops receive death threats
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-26
Some of the Church of England's most senior bishops have reported receiving hate mail and death threats after speaking out on Downing Street adviser Dominic Cummings' alleged breach of lockdown rules. | Bishop of Worcester John Inge tweeted that he received an email warning "stay out of politics or we'll kill you" after he criticised Boris Johnson's "risible defence" of Cummings on Sunday night. | Helen-Ann Hartley, the bishop of Ripon, reported a similar threat, posting: "'Stay out of politics or it will be the death of you' was one of the emails I received today. Thank you to those who have sent supportive mess…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/05/26/cummings-criticism-sees-church-of-england-bishops-receive-death-threats/

'Ultimate Karen' calls cops on 'dangerous' black man who asked her to leash dog, gets put on leave after massive backlash (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-05-26
A New York woman dubbed the "Ultimate Karen" has been placed on leave and forced to "voluntarily surrender" her pet after being captured calling the cops on a "threatening" black man who merely asked that she leash her dog. | Shared on social media on Monday and set in Central Park, the video opens with a visibly-upset woman walking toward the camera, asking the man filming to "please stop." The situation quickly escalates when he refuses, with the woman vowing to call the police and "tell them there's an African American man threatening my life." | "There is a man, an African American… he is recording me an…
rt.com/usa/489740-ultimate-karen-central-park/

'Justice for Carolyn': Resistance claims Trump KILLED INTERN, figuring fake news will force Twitter to nuke his Morning Joe tweets
rt.com | 2020-05-26
After Twitter refused to censor President Donald Trump for suggesting former Congressman and TV host Joe Scarborough may have played a role in the death of his intern, Trump critics launched a murder conspiracy of their own. | There is no one named Carolyn Gombell, but her name was trending on social media on Tuesday, along with the hashtag #JusticeForCarolyn, after a Twitter account calling itself 'God' posted a thread accusing the current US president of murder. | "He strangled her because he'd gotten her pregnant and was threatening to tell the press. Then he bribed NYPD Police Chief Bernie Kierik to cover…
rt.com/usa/489844-trump-carolyn-murder-hoax/

Trump accuses Twitter of election meddling after it bows to outrage mob & 'fact-checks' his tweets about mail-in ballots
rt.com | 2020-05-26
For the first time ever, Twitter has tagged tweets by US President Donald Trump with a link to their 'fact check,' based on a collection of mainstream media reporting on the subject of mail-in ballots and voter fraud in the US. | …
rt.com/usa/489845-trump-twitter-fact-check/

'It destroys my argument': Even Fox News is triggered by the lack of social distancing at Ozarks bash amid Covid-19 pandemic
rt.com | 2020-05-26
Brian Kilmeade, who has been arguing to lift Covid-19 lockdown measures, and other Fox talking heads did not have much support for people in the Ozarks partying in viral videos and ignoring social distancing measures. | "It destroys my argument that we are reacting responsibly as a country," Kilmeade said on Fox News' 'Outnumbered' on Tuesday when talking about the footage out of Missouri over the Memorial Day weekend. | Viral videos show huge crowds partying it up over Memorial Day weekend in Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri pic.twitter.com/PjtCiHYOBy– NowThis (@nowthis…
rt.com/usa/489840-kilmeade-coronavirus-ozarks-fox-news/

'An onion of intellectual imbecility': Conservative pundit Ben Shapiro roasts Trump over Joe Scarborough murder tweets
rt.com | 2020-05-26
Right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro has advised US President Donald Trump to "grow the f**k up" and called him out for "intellectual imbecility" over tweets suggesting MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is a murderer. | Trump implied (not for the first time) in tweets on Tuesday that Scarborough may have been involved in the 2001 death of an intern who worked at the former congressman's office. | While the death was ruled to be accidental, with the medical examiner saying Lori Klausutis died after she fell and hit her head on a desk due to an underlying heart condition, many alternative theories have made their way around t…
rt.com/usa/489826-shapiro-trump-onion-imbecile-scarborough/

What else? Woke mob wants more blood after 'Ultimate Karen' fired for calling police on black man
rt.com | 2020-05-26
After a viral video showed Amy Cooper mistreating her pet and threatening to call the cops on an African American man and saying he was threatening her life, she has been fired

Verification purge? Multiple Twitter accounts lose blue checks after interviewing 'wrongthinkers'
rt.com | 2020-05-25
Twitter has purged the blue "verification" checks from the accounts of journalists and podcasters who posted interviews with subjects considered controversial in the ever-narrowing centrist-liberal mainstream. | Mediaite journalist August Takala was stripped of his coveted blue check just an hour after tweeting an interview with former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson, he tweeted on Friday to his 4,000-plus followers. The following day, Wrong Opinion podcaster Josh Lekach tweeted that he, too, had had his blue check revoked after interviewing conservative provocateur (and now congressional candidate) Laura Loomer…
rt.com/usa/489733-twitter-unverifies-bluechecks-loomer-attkisson/

'NYT chose to attack US military on Memorial Day': Pentagon hits back at op-ed on army 'celebrating white supremacy'
rt.com | 2020-05-25
The US Department of Defense spokesperson has locked horns with the New York Times (NYT) over a Memorial Day opinion piece saying that the US military "celebrates white supremacy." | "The NYT has more than a million possible stories of the ultimate sacrifice by American patriots that they could tell. But they don't," Chief Pentagon Spokesperson Jonathan Rath Hoffman tweeted. | Instead, they chose to attack the US military – the most diverse meritocracy in the country and the most powerful force for good in world history. We have many stories of valor still waiting to be told this Memorial Day weekend. | Hoffma…
rt.com/usa/489666-nyt-pentagon-op-ed/

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