The Heat: Social media's influence
Asieh Namdar | america.cgtn.com | 2020-12-24
Critics say it's addictive, manipulative and sometimes dangerous, and it's something billions of people around the world use every day.
america.cgtn.com/2020/12/24/the-heat-social-medias-influence

Covid-19 testing starts for thousands of hauliers trapped in UK after France shut border over mutant virus strain
rt.com | 2020-12-23
Thousands of lorry drivers stranded in southern England, waiting to enter France, have started being tested for Covid-19 in an operation involving British soldiers, UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Wednesday. | The French government is among at least 50 countries to keep its borders to the UK shut this week after British scientists discovered that a mutated form of coronavirus had been spreading across the country. | "Testing has begun as we look to get traffic moving again between the UK and France," Shapps said in a statement on Twitter. | "However, French border police [are] only acting on agreem…
rt.com/uk/510559-covid-uk-france-border/

Interview with Amaurie Johnson: 'There's a lot of things that I want changed'
Zach Farber | liberationnews.org | 2020-12-23
In cell phone videos that went viral, Amaurie Johnson was assaulted by now former officer Matt Dages on May 27 in La Mesa, Ca.
liberationnews.org/interview-with-amaurie-johnson-theres-a-lot-of-things-that-i-want-changed/

UK: Poole Hospital and Royal Bournemouth Hospital staff respond to frontline nurse's exposure of dangerous working conditions
wsws.org | 2020-12-23
Posted on the NHS FightBack Facebook group page, the letter was read by hundreds of people and widely shared. It was also shared to various NHS based campaign groups across Facebook.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/23/pool-d23.html

'Good luck ladies': Kuwait exclusively appoints men to its Women's Committee
Nur Ayoubi | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-23
'Good luck ladies': Kuwait exclusively appoints men to its Women's Committee | The committee has been widely criticised online, forcing Kuwait's precarious position on gender equality back into the spotlight | Nur Ayoubi | Wed, 12/23/2020 – 13: 21 | Members of Kuwait's Parliamentary Women's Committee (Screengrab/ twitter) | The newly appointed, all-male parliamentary Women's Committee of Kuwait has been met with ridicul…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/kuwait-women-committee-appoints-men

Hate speech on Facebook poses 'acute challenges to human dignity' — UN expert
news.un.org | 2020-12-23
An independent UN human rights expert called on Wednesday for Facebook's Oversight Board to give greater consideration to the rights of ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities before making decisions over controversial content, particularly involving hate speech.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/12/1080832

Trump Threatens Iran, Tweets Rocket Photos Claiming to Prove Complicity in Baghdad Embassy Attack
sputniknews.com | 2020-12-23
The Trump administration has long claimed attacks against US forces in Iraq and across the Middle East are orchestrated by Iran, but it has consistently failed to present damning evidence of the claim.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202012231081554440-trump-threatens-iran-tweets-rocket-photos-claiming-to-prove-complicity-in-baghdad-embassy-attack/

'Patriot Prayers' Storm Oregon Capitol to Reject Restrictions
telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-22
Dozens of protesters, some of them carrying firearms, stormed the Oregon Capitol in Salem city on Monday to protest COVID-19 restrictions. | RELATED: | Portland Street Violence Rising As Far-Right 'Prepared to Fight' | "Right-wing thugs intimidated and threatened journalist Brian Hayes for trying to cover their unlawful assembly at the Capitol in Salem," the DemCast Director Nick Knudsen tweeted. | "Just before their violent physical assaults on journalists, the right-wing extr…
telesurenglish.net/news/Patriot-Prayers-Storm-Oregon-Capitol-to-Reject-Restrictions-20201222-0003.html

US to offer Covid vaccines at some 4,000 sites nationwide
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2020-12-22
By Alex Segura Lozano Los Angeles, Dec 21 (efe-epa).- The United States already has the capacity to administer the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines at some 4,000 sites around the country, according to official figures, after on Monday Americans began being inoculated against the sometimes deadly viral disease. US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex …
laprensalatina.com/us-to-offer-covid-vaccines-at-some-4000-sites-nationwide/

The FBI is Secretly Breaking Into Encrypted Devices. We're Suing
Arianna Demas | aclu.org | 2020-12-22
The FBI is secretly breaking the encryption that secures our cell phones and laptops from identity thieves, hackers, and abusive governments, and it refuses to even acknowledge that it has information about these efforts — even though some details have been filed publicly in federal court. We're suing to get some answers., , Between our emails, text messages, location information, social media activity, and more, our cell phones hold almost our entire lives. In recent years, governments have stepped up efforts to gain access to the information on our cell phones and personal computers. The federal govern…
aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/the-fbi-is-secretly-breaking-into-encrypted-devices-were-suing

Baseball's racist legacy today as MLB finally recognizes 'Negro Leagues' — a WW commentary
Monica Moorehead | workers.org | 2020-12-22
Twitter feed: @mmashcat Major League Baseball first announced on Dec. 9 that it would finally incorporate all of the players, statistics and records from the "Negro Leagues" (NL) into its present-day records. Many said it was about time and that this recognition is long overdue. Both sentiments are justified. Pennsylvania's . . . | Continue reading Baseball's racist legacy today as MLB finally recognizes 'Negro Leagues' — a WW commentary at Workers.org…
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Arizona State University workers go union, found United Campus Workers chapter
Josh Bacopulos | peoplesworld.org | 2020-12-22
PHOENIX–In a historic move for organized labor in Arizona, workers at Arizona State University have joined with staff at the University of Arizona to unionize with United Campus Workers. On Dec. 17, the newly-formed ASU-UCW chapter took to Twitter and Facebook to officially go public with the "wall-to-wall" union, meaning it's intended to represent every …
peoplesworld.org/article/arizona-state-university-workers-go-union-found-united-campus-workers-chapter/

Microsoft and Google join Facebook's legal battle against Israeli NSO Group
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-22