(2024-04-27). Burkina Faso's media regulator suspends BBC Africa and Voice of America. bbc.com

MEE staff (2024-04-27). Iraqi Tik-Tok star shot dead outside home in Baghdad. middleeasteye.net Iraqi Tik-Tok star shot dead outside home in Baghdad | Om Fahad is the latest in a string of social media stars murdered in Iraq in recent years | Sat, 04/27/2024 – 09: 54 | Iraqi TikTok celebrity Om Fahad at the Basra International Stadium during a game at the Arabian Gulf Cup football tournament on 19 January 2023 (Husse…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2024-04-27). In case you missed it: This week's Top 5 stories on social media. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Check out a few of the most popular News Network stories on @mayoclinic social media this past week. Mayo Clinic Minute: Reasons to be a living kidney donor In the U.S., almost 90,000 people are awaiting kidney transplants. Matching the right blood and tissue types to find a compatible donor kidney can be challenging, particularly when the donor pool is smaller than the number of people in need of a transplant. 4 types of head…

(2024-04-27). Taliban detain 3 Afghan radio journalists for playing music, talking to female callers. facebook.com

(2024-04-26). Burkina Faso's media regulator suspends BBC Africa and Voice of America. bbc.com

Binoy Kampmark (2024-04-26). Warring Against Encryption: Australia is Coming for Your Communications. counterpunch.org On April 16, Australia's eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, issued with authoritarian glee legal notices to X Corp and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, to remove material within 24 hours depicting what her office declared to be "gratuitous or offensive violence with a high degree of impact and detail". The relevant material featured a livestreamed

The Independent (2024-04-26). Man who whipped elderly woman in Arua arrested. independent.co.ug Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Arua city have in their custody a 51-year-old man who was captured on social media flogging an elderly woman at Manibe Trading Center along Arua-Koboko road. Twalibu Avutia, a resident of Baruku cell, Baza ward, Arua central Division was on Wednesday captured on a phone camera whipping …

(2024-04-26). Taliban detain 3 Afghan radio journalists for playing music, talking to female callers. facebook.com

ptcnews.tv (2024-04-26). Instagram video sparks online hostility for Indian student in Canada. ptcnews.tv PTC News Desk: In recent days, Mehul Prajapati, a 26-year-old student at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada, has found himself at the center of a whirlwind of online controversy, resulting in the closure of all his social media accounts. The catalyst for this storm was a seemingly innocuous Instagram video in which Prajapati offered advice to fellow university students on how to make the most of local food banks. Little did he know that this act of goodwill would thrust him into a maelstrom of misinformation and social media outrage.