(2022-08-27). The Real Cancel Culture: Anti-Palestinianism and the Crisis of American Free Speech. juancole.com By Nasim Ahmed |  ; ( Middle East Monitor )  ; The firing of Palestinian American woman, Natalie Abulhawa, has sparked a debate over free-speech, "cancel-culture" and the ever-growing crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism. The 25-year-old athletic trainer was fired by a private girls school in Bryn Mawr over years-old social media posts criticising Israel. In …
(2022-08-27). Whistleblowing at Twitter: Mudge Spills the Beans. dissidentvoice.org It must have been music to Elon Musk's ears. Twitter, a platform he has had a patchy relationship with, has been the recipient of various blows inflicted by Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, the company's former head of security. This was no mean feat, given the company's reputation as being essentially indestructible. But Mudge was left with …
(2022-08-27). Mayo Clinic Minute: The 3 best ways to keep kids healthy when heading back to school. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Making sure kids are prepared to head back to school means more than just getting them the school supplies they need. Caregivers also will want to make sure their students are on track to have a healthy school year and help them avoid many viral illnesses that tend to circulate when young people gather in classrooms and day care facilities.In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, a pediatric infectious diseases specialist at Mayo Clinic's Children's…
(2022-08-27). Consumer Health: What are head lice? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org For many families, the start of school is a busy, exciting time of year. For some families, though, returning to school also means unpleasant, unwelcome guests: head lice. An estimated 6—12 million infestations of head lice occur each year in the U.S. among children ages 3—11, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Head lice are tiny insects that feed on blood from the human scalp. Head lice don't carry bacterial or viral diseases,…
(2022-08-27). Twitter labelled scientific reporting as COVID-19 as "misinformation" wsws.org Widespread reports that Twitter has been falsely labeling tweets by scientists, doctors and other public health experts about COVID-19 as "misinformation" has intensified an ongoing crisis at the social media platform.
(2022-08-26). Twitterstorm Friday, 26 August: #FreeKhalil #FreeThemAll  ; Our Social Media Toolkit. samidoun.net 
#FreeKhalil #FreeThemAll Twitterstorm Friday, 26 August 2022 10 am Pacific  ; 1 pm Eastern  ; 7 pm central Europe  ; 8 pm Palestine Link to sample tweets: bit.ly/freekhaliltweet Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh has continued his hunger strike for the 176th day. Since his detention was "suspended" on Friday, 19 August, he has been held in …
(2022-08-26). How the CIA has Infiltrated Social Media Companies, with Alan MacLeod. mintpressnews.com Big social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter and Google, have gone on a hiring spree, recruiting dozens of CIA officers to run their most important, politically sensitive departments — and almost no one is talking about it.
(2022-08-26). Venezuelan President and Deputy Cuban PM Review Cooperation. telesurenglish.net "Today, August 26, I held a pleasant meeting with Alejandro Gil Fernández, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Planning of Cuba. We reviewed the broad map of cooperation that our countries carry forward in different sectors. Cuba and Venezuela, Unbreakable Brotherhood!" wrote President Maduro on Twitter. | RELATED: | The meeting is part of the work agenda that the deputy prime minister has been carrying out…
(2022-08-26). 2,000 Frontier Communications Workers Just Won A Strike. popularresistance.org For the past week, roughly 2,000 telecom workers at Frontier Communications in Southern California have been out on a unfair labor practice strike over a grievance stemming from the company's continued reliance on subcontracting at the expense of union employees' job security. The Frontier workers, affiliated with the Communication Workers of America District 9, walked out last Friday across eight locals representing technicians, call center employees, dispatchers, clerks, mechanics, and construction workers. | On Wednesday night, Aug. 23, Thomas Ham, a fiber-optic technician with Local 9588, announced on Twitter…
(2022-08-26). Remove content terming 'Indian variant': India tells social media intermediaries. aninews.in New Delhi [India], May 22 (ANI): India took a strong objection to the use of the term so-called 'Indian variant' for the B.1.617 variant of the coronavirus on social media posts.
(2022-08-26). Colombian President's Security Delegation Attacked. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch The government of President Gustavo Petro is willing to negotiate peace agreements with all paramilitary groups to achieve total peace in Colombia. (Photo: Colombian Presidency/Twitter) President Gustavo Petro stated that the violence must end in the country and reiterated his government's commitment to achieve total peace On Wednesday, August 24, a security delegation…
(2022-08-26). Maravillosas y extrañas compañías del mundo animal. cubadebate.cu Desde la página de Facebook de Artes y Manualidades, nos llegan hoy estas hermosas imágenes de animales que pocas veces se relacionan, pero que han sido captados en una verdadera escena maravillosa. Cubadebate comparte con sus lectores, estos instantes.
(2022-08-25). How One Spook-Run London College Department is Training the World's Social Media Managers. scheerpost.com By Alan MacLeod / MintPress News Staffed by NATO military officers and former government ministers and notorious for training the West's top spies, the Department of War Studies at King's College London is also providing the workforce for many of the largest social media companies. This includes Facebook, TikTok, Google, and Twitter. A MintPress study of professional databases and …
(2022-08-25). TCAC condemns Tallahassee Police Department training with war criminal Eddie Gallagher. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – Recent social media posts revealed that the Tallahassee Police Department Tactical Apprehension and Control Team took part in a training associated with Eddie Gallagher, a retired Navy SEAL accused of numerous war crimes. Most notably, Gallagher was accused of fatally stabbing an injured 17 year old ISIS prisoner named Khaled Jamal Abdullah, posing with the body and sending the picture to friends. Prosecutors painted a picture of Gallagher as needlessly violent and bloodthirsty, bragging about his number of kills. He even went so far as to gloat about murdering innocent civilians. His own fellow…