Workers World Party (2023-08-16). Summer Smith °presente! workers.org Summer Smith at Wells Fargo protest for workers' rights, Salt Lake City, Jan. 1, 2020. (Photo Credit: Facebook/Victoria Sethunya) Workers World Party mourns the tragic loss of Summer Smith, a founding member of the Salt Lake City, Utah, branch of WWP, who died from a long, heroic battle with cancer . . . |

WSWS (2023-08-15). Growing resistance to sellout arbitration recommendation by German rail union. wsws.org The latest WSWS articles on the arbitrator's ruling were read by tens of thousands and widely shared by workers on social media and among their colleagues. Individual local and company groups of the EVG published statements calling for rejection of the arbitration offer.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-08-15). Jordanian cybercrime law ratified by king, threatens freedom of speech. peoplesdispatch.org The bill introduces a new set of prohibitions and restrictions on speech and posts made on social media and elsewhere on the internet that the government deems to be a danger to national unity…

WSWS (2023-08-16). Los Angeles school district officials encourage sick students to attend school and spread infection. wsws.org Smita Malhotra, chief medical director of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), published a tweet Sunday encouraging parents of the district's 565,000 students to their children into school even if they were experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 or other illnesses.

Anonymous (2023-08-15). Update: Toluca Lake Neighborhood Council President Recruited QAnon Adherent to Run. indybay.org In an update to previous story 'QANON Adherent worms into Toluca Lake Neighborhood Council/Tony Cardenas Office', QAnon Adherent Jo Ann Rivas was urged by users on Twitter to seek Psychiatric help — several months before January 6 insurrection.

C.J. Hopkins (2023-08-15). The "Free-Speech Twitter" PSYOP. dissidentvoice.org It's never a very enjoyable experience, facing the fact that you've been bamboozled. Realizing that you've fallen prey to an elaborate con, or PYSOP, is painful. It's embarrassing. People feel ashamed. No one likes to see themselves as a sucker. It's humiliating. It makes people angry. It makes them want to lash out at someone. …

Editor (2023-08-14). DOJ Seized Trump's Twitter Data — Put Gag Order on Twitter. scheerpost.com

WSWS (2023-08-15). World Health Organization reports 80 percent rise in global COVID infections. wsws.org The WHO has confirmed that a wave of COVID infections is washing across the globe. They warn that without a public health edifice to track these latest variants, viral evolution poses an existential threat.

Thomas L. Knapp (2023-08-13). Biden Administration Defends Social Media Censorship Operation. news.antiwar.com On Thursday, government lawyers went to court to defend federal meddling in content moderation decisions on social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. On July 4, Judge Terry Doughty of the US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, ordered the federal government to refrain from communicating with social media platforms for "the …

WSWS (2023-08-14). Utah Trump supporter who threatened to assassinate Biden, Democrats killed in FBI raid. wsws.org Craig D. Robertson doubled down on his fascistic death threats after FBI agents first contacted him this past March after Truth Social, ex-President Donald Trump's social media platform, reported him to the FBI.

Staff (2023-08-14). PROOF: Big Oil Funding Social Media Stars. leecamp.com

Yasiel Betancourt Clavijo (2023-08-14). Dominican President announces his candidacy for 2024 elections. plenglish.com Santo Domingo, Aug 14 (Prensa Latina) The president of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, announced on social media his decision to run again for the presidential elections of May 2024.

ecns.cn (2023-08-13). Don't worry about third wave of COVID, experts say. ecns.cn Despite rising numbers of people on social media claiming to have been infected with COVID-19 for a third time recently, experts have said that those reinfected most likely only had mild symptoms.

Staff (2023-08-14). NY Times exposes its colonial and fossil fuel biases as one writer's response to Hawaiian wildfires is 'Rolex!'. thecanary.co A New York Times's (NYT) journalist's abhorrent tweet on Hawaii's devastating wildfires is exactly what you should expect from an elite corporate outlet that has shilled for the fossil fuel industry. Since Tuesday 8 August, a deadly wildfire has ripped through a Hawaiian town. So far, the blaze has killed nearly a hundred people in Lahaina …

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-08-13). Venezuelans celebrate Fidel Castro's birthday. plenglish.com On Twitter, Maduro wrote that Fidel would be recalled as a tireless rebel, intolerant of injustice, and a master of what is impossible. | The Venezuelan president tweeted that the Commander-in-Chief encourages us to continue to fight for the dignity of the people. | This tribute joins others from different regions globally to remember the life and work of one of the leaders and politicians of the 20th century.

Anonymous (2023-08-14). Update: Toluca Lake Neighborhood Council President Recruited QAnon Adherent to Run. indybay.org In an update to previous story 'QANON Adherent worms into Toluca Lake Neighborhood Council/Tony Cardenas Office', QAnon Adherent Jo Ann Rivas was urged by users on Twitter to seek Psychiatric help — several months before January 6 insurrection.

Samuel Farber (2023-08-14). Cuba 1962 and Ukraine 2022. fpif.org Last October, in an interview for a Russian state television documentary about the missile crisis of 1962, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

Editor (2023-08-14). DOJ Seized Trump's Twitter Data — Put Gag Order on Twitter. scheerpost.com

ecns.cn (2023-08-14). Freshman rides about 1,500 km for university registration. ecns.cn The story of a freshman from east China's Shandong riding nearly 1,500 km to register for university has gone viral on the internet.

Peter Koenig (2023-08-13). Niger: Italian PM Giorgia Meloni Goes Viral After Niger Coup. globalresearch.ca