Monthly Archives: April 2022

2022-04-02: News Headlines

Staff (2022-04-02). Venezuela Applauds UN Resolution against Coercive Measures. orinocotribune.com Venezuela has applauded the United Nations Human Rights Council's adoption of a resulution against unilateral coercive measures. | On Friday, April 1, the Human Rights Council of the United Nations adopted a resolution on "the negative impacts of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights" with a large majority. The resolution was approved by the UN human rights body with 27 votes in favor, 14 against, and 6 abstentions. | The Foreign Affairs Minister of Venezuela, Félix Plasencia, wrote on Twitter, "We applaud the adoption, by a large majority in the UN Human Rights Council, with 27 votes in f…

eva sánchez (2022-04-02). María Rojo Terradillos denunciada por ciberdelitos. indybay.org María Rojo Terradillos ha sido denunciada en los cuerpos y fuerzas de seguridad por vejar en twitter a sorianos que destacan por sus actividades en medios de comunicación, cultura, deporte, etc.

Ann Brown (2022-04-01). Apple And Meta (Facebook) Duped Into Giving User Data To Hackers Posing As Law Enforcement. moguldom.com Hackers tricked Apple and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, into giving them user data by posing as law enforcement officers with forged legal requests. In mid-2021, Apple and Meta handed over basic subscriber details including customer addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses in response to fake "emergency data requests." Typically, search warrants or subpoenas …

WSWS (2022-04-01). Workers and youth condemn Facebook censorship of Socialist Equality Party's anti-war video. wsws.org "This censorship is not only directed against us, but against the mass opposition to a world war," says Vandreier. The socialist anti-war perspective of the SGP "is to be banned and censored in the midst of deafening war propaganda for a third world war."

Peoples Dispatch (2022-04-01). Over 50 Hirak movement activists freed in Algeria. peoplesdispatch.org Several commentators and social media users in Algeria have noted that the release coincides with the visit of a high-ranking US official and likely took placedue to politically motivated reasons…

Staff (2022-04-01). Sostiene Díaz-Canel intercambio con delegación del Movimiento Independentista Nacional Hostosiano de Puerto Rico. cubadebate.cu La víspera, el presidente cubano Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez sostuvo un intercambio con delegación del Movimiento Independentista Nacional Hostosiano, encabezada por Julio Muriente. Según el mandatario cubano en su cuenta en Twitter, en la cita se reafirmó el compromiso con la causa independentista puertorriqueña.

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-04-01). Video: Artist-Turned-Politician Shyne Takes On Colonial Slavemaster Britain. moguldom.com Former Bad Boy Records artist-turned-politician Moses "Shyne" Barrow has joined the chorus of voices calling for reparations from the British monarchy. "Right now we're in the midst of taking the United Kingdom to court for reparations," Shyne said during an interview snippet that was shared on Twitter. "As we know in Belize, the Transatlantic Slave …

2022-04-02 13:40 | 09:40 EST | jz | 9 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 

2022-04-01: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-04-01). Workers and youth condemn Facebook censorship of Socialist Equality Party's anti-war video. wsws.org "This censorship is not only directed against us, but against the mass opposition to a world war," says Vandreier. The socialist anti-war perspective of the SGP "is to be banned and censored in the midst of deafening war propaganda for a third world war."

VINS (2022-03-31). Scared Straight: TikTok Teens and Children Battling War Anxiety. projectcensored.org When Russian forces escalated attacks in Ukraine in February, social media users were forced to sift through mounting misinformation. But a new TikTok phenomenon is preying on Sweden's most vulnerable….

Ann Brown (2022-03-31). Citibank Reportedly Confiscates $30K Check Of Black Social Media Influencer, Calls Police. moguldom.com Social media influencer and musician Baby Storme, 22, claims that Citibank racially profiled her. In a viral video she posted on TikTok on March 22, the Los Angeles-based TikToker claims she attempted to deposit a $30,000 check from her father at Citibank to pay her rent for the rest of the year. The bank teller at the …

Rick Rozoff (2022-03-31). Top Zelensky aide grateful for Turkish drones used against Russia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com AhvalMarch 31, 2022 Zelensky aide meets with Turkish drone maker's CEO in Istanbul Mikhail Podolyak, a Ukrainian presidential official who led the country's negotiations with Russia this week in ƒ∞stanbul, shared a photo on social media with Haluk Bayraktar, the chief executive officer of Turkish drone maker Baykar. Podolyak first published a photo of the …

Eleanor Klibanoff (2022-03-31). Abortion nonprofits say Texas state Rep. Briscoe Cain defamed them. peoplesworld.org A group of nonprofits that help people access abortions is threatening to sue a Texas lawmaker for defamation after he called them "criminal organizations" in letters he posted to social media. State Rep. Briscoe Cain, R-Deer Park, sent cease-and-desist letters to eight of these abortion funds earlier this month, ordering them to "immediately stop paying …

2022-04-01 13:42 | 09:42 EST | jz | 7 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0