Argentina receives second batch of Russian Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19 (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2021-01-16
A plane carrying 300,000 more doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus has landed in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires to allow the country to complete immunization of its frontline medics. | The refrigerated containers with the vaccine were delivered on Saturday from Moscow by a special flight of the Latin American country's flagship carrier, Aerolineas Argentinas. | "Those new doses represent the second component needed to conclude the vaccination after the first stage," Gines Gonzalez Garcia, Argentina's health minister, wrote on Twitter. | Llegaron al país 300.000 nuevas dosis de vacun…
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AUDIO: The Fascist Assault and the Ruling Class Response
Liberation Staff | liberationnews.org | 2021-01-16
This interview is an episode of The Socialist Program with Brian Becker, a podcast providing news and views about the world for those who want to change it. You can follow the show on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The profound political crisis gripping the United States continues to deepen and take new twists and turns …
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Frankfurt Airport evacuated in police operation
rt.com | 2021-01-16
Parts of Frankfurt Airport were evacuated and closed off to the public as police conducted an operation, apparently triggered by an abandoned piece of luggage. Two suspects have reportedly been arrested. | Frankfurt Airport's Terminal 1, along with its attached regional train station, was closed on Saturday evening, as the airport's police service launched an otherwise undescribed "operation." | State and federal police were involved in the operation, and the airport police wrote on Twitter that one piece of abandoned luggage had been i…
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'Talk About a Super Spreader': Analysis Finds Online Election Misinformation Fell by 73% After Trump Barred
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2021-01-16
After Trump's lies disappeared from Twitter and Facebook, the dissemination of falsehoods and the conversations based on them fell dramatically. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/twitter_trump_1.jpg …
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After User Feedback, WhatsApp Delays Changing Service Standards
telesurenglish.net | 2021-01-16
"We are postponing the date when people will be asked to review and accept the new terms," Facebook's Whatsapp said in a blog post. | The company cancelled the February 8 deadline for users to accept the new rules, which include sharing their information with Facebook servers. | RELATED: | WhatsApp to Up User Age Limit in EU After Pressure | The change will be thoroughly reviewed and was delayed until May 15. The new terms were rejected by users outside of Europe who do not accept that a d…
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After User Feedback, WhatsApp Delays Changing Service Standards
telesurenglish.net | 2021-01-16
"We are postponing the date when people will be asked to review and accept the new terms," Facebook's Whatsapp said in a blog post. | The company cancelled the February 8 deadline for users to accept the new rules, which include sharing their information with Facebook servers. | RELATED: | WhatsApp to Up User Age Limit in EU After Pressure | The change will be thoroughly reviewed and was delayed until May 15. The new terms were rejected by users outside of Europe who do not accept that a d…
telesurenglish.net/news/After-User-Feedback-WhatsApp-Delays-Changing-Service-Standards-20210116-0006.html

The Heat: Social media controversy
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2021-01-16
Blocking U.S. President Trump from social media…. Was it a valid move to prevent violence or was it an assault on free speech?>…
america.cgtn.com/2021/01/16/the-heat-social-media-controversy

The ugly truth of WhatsApp's user data privacy
Sasank | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-01-16
Facebook's meteoric rise as one of the biggest global monopolies has been accompanied by continuous weakening of its user privacy. With WhatsApp users voting with their feet, has Facebook's past finally caught up with it?
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/01/16/the-ugly-truth-of-whatsapps-user-data-privacy/

Venezuela Offers Oxygen to Attend COVID-19 in Manaus, Brazil
telesurenglish.net | 2021-01-15
Venezuela's Foreign Affairs Minister Jorge Arreaza Thursday informed that his country will provide oxygen to Brazil so it can face Manaus city's health emergency. | RELATED: | Venezuela Announces International Lawsuit Against US | "On instructions from President Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela will support the brotherly Brazilian people. For our nation, solidarity is a duty," Arreaza tweeted. | On Thursday, Amazon State's governor Wilson Lima thanked the solidarity gesture that will end the…
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Trump coup attempt: U.S. war comes home
Sara Flounders | workers.org | 2021-01-15
A caustic commentary on U.S. policy that circulated on social media worldwide within 24 hours of the Jan. 6 events at the U.S. Capitol was: "Due to travel restrictions this year, the U.S. had to organize the coup at home." A domestic coup on the U.S. government was indeed attempted . . . | Continue reading Trump coup attempt: U.S. war comes home at Workers.org…
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Trump coup attempt: U.S. war comes home
Sara Flounders | workers.org | 2021-01-15
A caustic commentary on U.S. policy that circulated on social media worldwide within 24 hours of the Jan. 6 events at the U.S. Capitol was: "Due to travel restrictions this year, the U.S. had to organize the coup at home." A domestic coup on the U.S. government was indeed . . . | Continue reading Trump coup attempt: U.S. war comes home at Workers.org…
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Silicon Valley Destroys Parler in a Show of Monopolistic Force
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2021-01-15
By Glenn Greenwald / Reposted with author permission from Substack Critics of Silicon Valley censorship for years heard the same refrain: tech platforms like Facebook, Google and Twitter are private corporations and can host or ban whoever they want. If you don't like what they are doing, the solution is not to complain or to regulate them. Instead, go create your own social media platform that… | Source…
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Against A Domestic Terrorism Law
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-15
On Monday, Opposite Office, an "activistic architecture studio" based in Munich, released design materials for what it called "Capitol Castle," a plan that would encircle the entire U.S. Capitol with 36-feet-thick brick walls. The concept was not serious–or, at least, it was "serious" but not intended to be built. It was, depending on how charitable you feel about "activistic architecture studios," a design meant to spark a debate on democracy and division, or one meant to get written up by the architecture press and shared widely on social media. | But even if these German architects don't sincerely propos…
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Conan and the Vandals
David Yearsley | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-15
It took another Barbarian to deliver the toughest talk to the Vandals and Goths who sacked the American Capitol last week. Whether any from these bearded, fur-clad tribes were listening to Conan the Californian seems unlikely since his campfireside chat was issued on YouTube, a forum from which the Germanic marauders' orange-haired chieftain had been…
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Social Media Giants Ban Trump, but the Real Censorship is of Palestinians
Jessica Buxbaum | mintpressnews.com | 2021-01-15
In the wake of the Capitol Hill insurrection, Facebook and Twitter finally took a principled stand against President Donald Trump by suspending his accounts. While Trump lashed out at the tech giants, media analysts condoned the move–noting stronger moderation of his and other inflammatory posts are long overdue. | Facebook, Twitter, and other social media behemoths have faced criticism over the years for allowing misinformation and dangerous incitement to run rampant on their pla…
mintpressnews.com/social-media-giants-ban-trump-real-censorship-palestinians/274386/

12hr Covid curfews announced for all of France for at least 15 days, PM says pressure on hospitals is 'high'
rt.com | 2021-01-14
The entirety of France will be placed under a 6pm-6am curfew for at least 15 days from Saturday in a bid to ease the pressure of Covid-19 on the country's health system, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced on Thursday. | The 12-hour curfews are currently already in place for 25 of mainland France's 95 administrative areas — known as departements — but they will now be extended to the rest of the country, which is currently under an 8pm curfew. | "While the resumption of the epidemic was concentrated at the end of December in certain departments, viral circulation now concerns the entire country," th…
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Twitter's Ban on Trump will Deepen the US Tribal Divide
Jonathan Cook | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-14
Anyone who believes locking President Donald Trump out of his social media accounts will serve as the first step on the path to healing the political divide in the United States is likely to be in for a bitter disappointment. The flaws in this reasoning need to be peeled away, like the layers of an…
counterpunch.org/2021/01/14/twitters-ban-on-trump-will-deepen-the-us-tribal-divide/

Twitter's ban on Trump will only deepen the U.S. tribal divide
Jonathan Cook | mronline.org | 2021-01-14
Anyone who believes locking President Donald Trump out of his social media accounts will serve as the first step on the path to healing the political divide in the United States is likely to be in for a bitter disappointment.
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Angry Far-Right Extremists Seek to Overshadow Biden Inauguration, Amid Growing Scrutiny
splcenter.org | 2021-01-14
Facing mounting pressure from law enforcement and obstacles in the form of tech companies pushing fringe websites and prominent social media accounts offline, far-right extremists have embraced a more diffuse, chaotic response to Joe Biden's inauguration than the concentrated mob attack that engulfed the Capitol on Jan. 6.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/01/14/angry-far-right-extremists-seek-overshadow-biden-inauguration-amid-growing-scrutiny