Mandip Aujla, Manjulaa Narasimhan (2023-12-02). Perspectives] The cycling of self-care through history. thelancet.com Self-care is an established term in the modern English vernacular with popular culture and social media extolling the virtues of all manner of methods to improve wellbeing. Yet self-care—when taken as "the ability of individuals, families and communities to promote health, prevent disease, maintain health, and cope with illness and disability with or without the support of a health worker", as defined by WHO—extends far beyond the common perception of individual acts of self-interest, to a set of behaviours and practices determined by a person's cultural, environmental, and socioeconomic circumstances…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-12-01). Censorship of pro-Palestine content on social media continues. peoplesdispatch.org On November 23, Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Human Rights in occupied Palestinian territories Albanese was alerted by some users of the social media site claiming that they were unable to search her page. Whenever they entered her username, unrelated parody pages were brought up (this has since been rectified). The UN rapporteur has been vocal against…

Alan Macleod (2023-11-30). Visegrád 24: The Polish Government-Funded Fake News Factory Driving The Online Israel-Palestine News Cycle. mintpressnews.com Visegrád 24 and its ultra-viral content have dominated social media platforms since Israel's war on Gaza began, but who is behind the pro-Israel account helping to shape the narrative on the year's most controversial topic? MintPress News investigates.

Alan Macleod (2023-11-30). Visegrád 24: The Polish Government-Funded Fake News Factory Driving The Online Israel-Palestine News Cycle. mintpressnews.com Visegrád 24 and its ultra-viral content have dominated social media platforms since Israel's war on Gaza began, but who is behind the pro-Israel account helping to shape the narrative on the year's most controversial topic? MintPress News investigates.

Ana Perdigón (2023-11-30). Venezuela's Opposition Figure Capriles To Vote in Essequibo Referendum This Sunday. orinocotribune.com After calling on Venezuelans to vote "no" in the consultative referendum on Essequibo, far-right opposition politician Henrique Capriles has now announced that he will participate in the consultation to defend Venezuelan territory. | Through a video published on social media, Capriles firmly expressed his conviction that Essequibo belongs to all Venezuelans. For this reason, he claimed, he will vote this Sunday December 3 in the referendum. He added that voting in the referendum "does not mean giving support to or backing the government." | "Now, if you vote, does that mean [you are] giving support to the governm…

Ana Perdigón (2023-11-30). Venezuela's Opposition Figure Capriles To Vote in Essequibo Referendum This Sunday. orinocotribune.com After calling on Venezuelans to vote "no" in the consultative referendum on Essequibo, far-right opposition politician Henrique Capriles has now announced that he will participate in the consultation to defend Venezuelan territory. | Through a video published on social media, Capriles firmly expressed his conviction that Essequibo belongs to all Venezuelans. For this reason, he claimed, he will vote this Sunday December 3 in the referendum. He added that voting in the referendum "does not mean giving support to or backing the government." | "Now, if you vote, does that mean [you are] giving support to the governm…

Chris Walker (2023-11-30). Trump Calls for Government to Punish MSNBC Over Reporting on Him He Doesn't Like. truthout.org Former President Donald Trump demanded on his social media platform earlier this week that the government shut down MSNBC News over the network's criticism of his statements. Trump's Truth Social post wrongly claimed that the network is broadcast over the air, thus warranting the government regulation he sought. But the channel is actually a cable news station, and therefore not subject to rules… |

Chris Walker (2023-11-30). Trump Immediately Attacks Judge's Wife on Social Media After Gag Order Reimposed. truthout.org A New York state appeals court has lifted a temporary hold on a gag order imposed on former President Donald Trump, reinstating the order that came from a lower court judge in the civil case involving his Trump Organization properties. The original gag order from Judge Arthur Engoron came about after Trump made baseless and incendiary claims on social media that Engoron and his court staff were… |

Editor (2023-11-30). The Eyes on the Board Act Is Yet Another Misguided Attempt to Limit Social Media for Teens. scheerpost.com By Jason Kelley / Electronic Frontier Foundation Young people's access to social media continues to be under attack by overreaching politicians. The latest effort, Senator Ted Cruz's blunt "Eyes on the Board" Act, aims to end social media's use entirely in schools. This heavy-handed plan to cut federal funding to any school that doesn't block …

Sharon Zhang (2023-11-30). Musk to Advertisers Who Left "X" Due to Antisemitic Content: "Go F*** Yourself" truthout.org In a remarkable moment in an interview onstage at a conference on Wednesday, an obstinate Elon Musk hurled an expletive at advertisers who are fleeing X, formerly known as Twitter, and blamed the company's problems on the advertisers themselves rather than his own leadership. At The New York Times's DealBook Summit, Musk and interviewer Andrew Ross Sorkin discussed his recent posts on the platform… |

Waging Nonviolence (2023-12-01). Think #MeToo didn't make a real difference? Think again. pressenza.com It takes effort to track the impacts of mass mobilizations like #MeToo, Occupy or Black Lives Matter, but understanding social change is impossible without such work. | By What difference did #MeToo actually make? | In 2017 and 2018, the viral hashtag became a global sensation that motivated millions to speak out about sexual assault and harassment. But more recently, critics have questioned whether the flurry of acti…